Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1898 — NEW SPANISH MINISTER. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW SPANISH MINISTER.

Senor Polo de Bernabe, Who Succeeds Be Lome in Washington. * Senor Polo de Bernabe, the new Spanish minister to Washington, is the sou of

Admiral Polo of the Spanish navy, who was minister to the United States during President Grant’s administration and who was chiefly instrumental in staving off belligerency recognition in the last Cuban rebellion. Senor Polo, as he is called, is by no means the brusque democrat his father was. He is a colorless young man of almost no force of character at all, and has been carried along in the diplomatic offices of Spain by administration after administration for the sake of his father and his family. He has done little of note during his official life, although he is a man of much learning. He speaks English fluently, and has a wide acquaintance with commercial history, on which subject lie has written a number of valuable treatises. His wife, Senora Mendez de Vigo, the daughter of the present Spanish ambassador to Germany, is an accomplished woman not unknown in Washington society. The new minister is not the Polo who was attache and third secretary of the Spanish legation here from 1873 to 1881. That official was a brother of De Lome’s successor and is now dead. The dead brother's career was exceptionally brilliant. He rose to an importance almost equal to his father’s.

SENOR POLO DE BERNABE.