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...election were much more favorable to Governor General Wood than was expected and will probably set at rest any doubts at the War Department of the Governor's ability to handle the situation. In the election, in which some 90,000 votes were cast, Ramon Fernandes (Collectivista candidate) defeated Juan Sumulong (Democratic candidate) by a plurality of " between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insular Politics | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...Collectivista or Coalition Party, headed by Señors Quezon and Osmena, based its campaign on its attack on General Wood, saying with all manner of diatribe that he was trying to deprive the Filipinos of their legal rights of self-government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insular Politics | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

...spite of the attacks on him, Governor Wood observed a studious neutrality during the election. Because of the Collectivista appeal to racial prejudice, it is considered that the outcome is no very great defeat for the Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insular Politics | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

Olympic Stadium at Manila, attended by 10,000 people. Resolutions were passed, one of them for a boycott on the pro-Quezon newspapers-The Herald, El Debat, Vanguardia, Taliba and Watawat. One speaker said that if the Collectivista leaders did not reform their abuses there was no remedy but the bolo knife. Another declared that he had had to refuse permission to one of his followers in Cebu who wanted to assassinate Osmeua. " If it were not for me," he asserted, " Osmena would be dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insular Politics | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

Following the meeting the crowd went to pay its respects to Señor Sumulong, the defeated candidate. On the way it stoned the Carambola Club, where the Collectivista leaders were dining and injured Quezon's secretary. Next it stoned the National University, compelling a suspension of the evening classes. Then it discovered President Camilo Osias (Collectivista) of the University and a Quezon Senator riding in an automobile. The windshield of the car was broken, but the two men were saved by the police. Finally at the Sampoloo Church, Seũor Sumulong thanked his supporters for their votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Insular Politics | 10/15/1923 | See Source »

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