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Said the Speaker of the House, Manuel Roxas: " We have encroached upon the rights of the Governor General because in that guise liberties are won." Said the President of the Senate, Manuel Quezon: " Our object is to reduce the Governor General to a mere figurehead. It is unpatriotic for any Filipino to stand by Governor Wood in his policies...
...Department, much petitioned by Filipinos who dislike Governor General Wood's rule of their islands, was again jolted by the Philippine political drama. Without warning the Department suddenly received a telegram from Manuel Quezon (recently resigned President of the Philippine Senate) protesting because General Wood had appointed an ex-convict Mayor of Manila...
...charge was startling and a credit to the astuteness of the wily Quezon. Shortly after Quezon's telegram another telegram arrived from General Wood. The General said that neither he nor any of his assistants had known of anything discreditable in the new Mayor's record, until Quezon's outburst. The new Mayor, Eulogio Rodriguez, it seemed, however, had been convicted in 1900, aged 16, of procuring the abduction of a woman by bandits. He had served a year in Bilibid Penitentiary. Subsequently, 1901-1907, he was in the Government service as an interpreter arid in other...
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
...issue with the people prevents almost all Philippine politicians from taking the opposite side of the question - it would mean a terrible loss of votes. Osmena is far from likely to chance it. Even the Democratic Party, the younger school of politicians, as opposed to the older school of Quezon and Osmena, maintains an attitude of critical assent to Quezon's move. But the Democratic Party can hardly be said to count because it is a very small minority in the Legislature...