Public opinion in Spain was therefore no less inflamed than in America, but it was less well-informed.

Cartoons represented the American hog, which would readily fall before the Spanish rapier accustomed to its nobler adversary the bull.

Spanish pride, impervious to facts and statistics, would brook no supine submission on the part of its people to foreign demands.

It was a question how far the Spanish Government could bring itself to yield points in season which it fully realized must be yielded in the end.
The negotiation waxed too hot for the aged John Sherman, and was conducted by the Assistant Secretary, William Rufus Day, a close friend of the President, but a man comparatively unknown to the public.

When Day officially succeeded Sherman (April 26, 1898) he had to face as fierce a light of publicity as ever beat upon a public man in the United States.