Yellow Journalism

McKinley; “weak and a bidder

for the admiration of the crowd.”

Early February 1898, a stolen letter from the Spanish ambassador to Washington, Dupuy de Lôme, describes McKinley as “weak and a bidder for the admiration of the crowd." The Spanish ambassador wrote this letter in criticizing our nation and our leader. They doubt our capability to run our country. The ambassador see's the nation as weak and an easy target. The letter is our proof that we need to go to war before the United states is seen as a weak nation instead of a super power.