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...General Emilio Aguinaldo, who has always felt the U. S. double-crossed him after he helped wrest the islands from Spain in 1898. a combination of Communists. Sakdalistas and miscellaneous advocates of immediate independence cast less than 250.000 votes. Twice that many went to small, dressy Manuel Quezon, "Father of Philippine Independence," who for the past 20 years has been running the islands' politics pretty much as he and Senator Sergio Osmena chose. Osmena will be inaugurated Vice President when Quezon takes office...
...loss of only two lives, no more than the typhoon took, was partly owing to red-headed Governor General Frank Murphy of Detroit. The way he and the constabulary kept peace at the polls came in for high commendation from white residents, who were additionally encouraged by Senor Quezon's pledge to "follow the precedents set by the American Governors General during more than three decades." Peppery President-reject Aguinaldo declared the election returns "incredible," swore that he was "not through yet. . . . I have no doubt that electoral manipulations, shielded by official protection, did not permit the people to freely...
...Manuel Quezon, president of the Philippine Senate and shrewdest of that crop of native politicos who have grown up in the islands under U. S. tutelage, was on his way back to the Philippines from the U. S. where he had seen Franklin Roosevelt sign the new Philippine Constitution (TIME, April 1). Before that Constitution was signed and before Filipinos in a plebiscite accepted it, Senor Quezon had laid his plans for becoming President of the Commonwealth. He had entered into a coalition with his onetime political enemies and between them they had agreed to a comfortable division...
...coalition began to crack apart. From his ship Señor Quezon radioed threats that he would not lead the ticket unless the coalition stuck together...
...plot against his life, the third reported in two months, was discovered. At the Quezon home near Baguio, the summer capital, whither the would-be President will hasten as soon as he reaches Manila, there were unearthed eleven cases of dynamite stolen from a construction camp, enough to blow him far beyond reach of any earthly honors...