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Meanwhile in Manila last week there were signs of a rapprochement between Governor General Dwight Filley Davis and the native Legislature. The report that Governor Davis would resign Jan. 1 to join his wife in Paris, coupled with speculation as to his successor, disturbed Filipino politicos who feared the next Governor General would be less friendly, more dictatorial. This fear prompted Sergio Osmena, president pro tem, of the Senate to declare: "Everybody knows of the continuation of Governor Davis in office at great sacrifice on his part. Because of the invalid condition of Mrs. Davis, the Governor feels the necessity...
...sportsman, Missouri's Democratic Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, author of a pending bill in Congress to free the islands.* He stood on the steps of Manila's Legislative Building to receive ovations, watch the fun. Beside him stood Nevada's Senator Key Pittman, many a Filipino official. For two hours Senator Hawes watched 50,000 natives file by-school children, college students, labor unionists, club women, civic workers, politicians. Loud and long were the cheers for Senator Hawes. Said he afterwards: "That turnout convinced me the Filipinos want independence. If anyone doesn't want...
...businessmen ignored the parade. Earlier charges were heard that instructors at the National University had coerced students to participate by threats to reduce their grades 5%. The demonstration which drew 100,000 spectators was orderly and good-natured. Trouble developed only when a band of 200 Filipino rowdies invaded the lawns of the Army & Navy Club, began throwing stones. They were driven off by club members...
...insurrecto predicted that independence would not sink the islands economically, that sheer native gratitude for freedom would win U. S. capital better than it now gets. Aguinaldo wants to come to the U. S. to help fight for independence before Congress but Congress sits only in winter and the Filipino cannot stand cold weather...
...Immediate independence is what I hear on every side. . . . And yet no sensible Filipino can possibly believe that the United States would or could grant immediate independence to these islands...