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...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...
...Democratic (or minority) Party took a more moderate position. It stands for Philippine independence, which is too popular among the people to bear opposition. But it assails the Quezon-Osmena bosses as grossly corrupt, and is eager to stand behind the Governor in any disclosures he can make of the mismanagement and private ambition of the Quezon group. It is demanding an investigation of expenditures from the Independence Fund which, it is claimed, Quezon and others have misused. In brief, the Democrats regard Quezon as a greater evil than Wood. In the election they lost the city of Manila...
...evening before the election Manuel Quezon was ill, but Osmena was campaigning in the San Nicolas district. About eight o'clock Osmena and several speakers of his party mounted a platform to address a crowd. The audience was mostly Democratic and howled them down. They had dinner on the platform and continued their unsuccessful efforts to speak all through the night. Not until seven o'clock next morning did they give...
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...
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...