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Richest native of the islands, an able lawyer (trained in Spain), politically independent of such professional agitators as Manuel Quezon, Sergio Osmena and Manuel Roxas, Lawyer Gabaldon intended to play a lone hand as George Washington of the Philippines. He planned, first of all, to see to it that his successor in Washington should be appointed by the Filipino Senate and not by Governor General Stimson. To effect this, he dated his resignation ahead to July 16, when the insular Senate will be in session. Secondly, he planned to enter the Filipino legislature on a straight Independence ticket. Thirdly...
President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate, Philippine Senator Sergio Osmena and Resident Philippine Commissioner Pedro Guevara, with congratulations on the appointment of Governor-General Stimson. Governor Ralph O. Brewster of Maine to present Civil War Veterans (see THE STATES...
...Stimson represents. But President Quezon intends to leave the Philippines soon, to become Resident Philippine Commissioner in Washington, where he can urge Philippine independence at the adamant doors of Congress instead of in the ears of his docile countrymen. He will be succeeded as Philippine Senate chief by Sergio Osmena, a more mature statesman and no agitator, no propagandist...
...that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited in his talk by Quezon, to give the Philippines self government as soon as they were ready...
...present undeterminable. It is difficult to believe that Coolidge plans to bestow upon the islands the British system of colonial government without some assurance that General Wood's charges of corruption in the elementary forms of native government were untrue. The ideas of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena are born of the same stuff as was the Declaration of Independence, but it is doubtful if their island is yet ready to essay a trial in government that may result in a Pacific embroglio...