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of the Governor of the Philippines, it became nec 

 essary to nominate a Vice-Governor to take his 

 place one of the most important places in our Gov 

 ernment at this time. I nominated as Vice-Governor 

 an ex-Confederate, General Luke Wright, of Ten 

 nessee. It is therefore an ex-Confederate who now 

 stands as the exponent of this Government and this 

 people in that great group of islands in the eastern 

 seas over which the American flag floats. General 

 Wright has taken a leading part in the work of 

 steadily bringing order and peace out of the bloody 

 chaos in which we found the islands. He is now 

 taking a leading part not merely in upholding the 

 honor of the flag by making it respected as the 

 symbol of our power, but still more in upholding 1 

 its honor by unwearied labor for the establishment 

 of ordered liberty of law-creating, law-abiding 

 civil government under its folds. 



The progress which has been made under Gen 

 eral Wright and those like him has been indeed 

 marvelous. In fact, a letter of the General's the 

 other day seemed to show that he considered there 

 was far more warfare about the Philippines in this 

 country than there was warfare in the Philippines 

 themselves! It is an added proof of the complete 

 ness of the reunion of our country that one of the 

 foremost men who have been instrumental in driving 

 forward the great work for civilization and human 

 ity in the Philippines has been a man who in the 

 Civil War fought with distinction in a uniform of 

 Confederate gray. 



