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BEVERLY, MASS., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1904 
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Entere 1 as second-class matter May 23, 1904, at the post-office at Beverly, Mass., under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. 
A FILIPINO ELECTION. 
BY EDWARD C. KNIGHT. 
The second municipal election in 
the Philippines, under Uncle Sam’s 
administration, had been postponed 
several times ; but finally a fixed date 
was set. So the politicians of Castela 
began to hold meetings to discuss 
candidates and platforms. 
Julio Sombito, the Presidenté—or 
Mayor — although despised by the 
great majority of voters, announced 
that he would be a candidate for re- 
election, and began to get his fences 
in order. 
Tomas Tionco, ‘the old man,” as 
he was known in the village, although 
ignorant and incompetent, had a large 
following because, his partisans stated, 
he was honest, well known, and one 
of the principal property owners in 
the town. But these were not the 
real reasons for his popularity — he 
was the most likely tool of the party, 
whose chief had been deposed through 
the machinations of Julio;and through 
him control of the treasury would 
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come and vengeance toward Julio 
would be sure. 
Besides these two parties there was 
a third, whose leader was finally de- 
cided to be the Justice-of-the-Peace, 
Juan Alvarez, although Henry Rosa- 
rio made a desperate effort to capture 
the nomination. 
So the parties stood when Julio, 
the Mayor, went to Bacolod to sell 
several hundred logs that he had cut 
on government land through forced 
labor. During his absence Constante 
Rubio, the lawyer, who had pledged 
his support to Julio, decided that Julio 
could not possibly be elected; so he 
resolved to present his own candidacy. 
For his lieutenant he had Manuel Es- 
meralda, one of the town councillors, 
a young man of considerable intelli- 
gence and worth. In the event of 
success Manuel was to be appointed 
Town Secretary. 
This latter party was the young 
men’s party—the party of progress ; 
and to convince the doubtful of its 
sympathy with the American govern- 
ment, it nominated the American 
teacher as a candidate for councillor. 
When Julio returned from his busi- 
ness trip he was, naturally, very 
wrathful to find that Henry Rosario 
had proven false in setting up his own 
standard. So when Henry sent one 
of his servants over to the town hall 
for some of the California sweet pota- 
toes that the government had sent 
down for general distribution, he was 
promptly refused. From that time on 
the two candidates were not on speak- 
ing terms. 
All four parties now began to frame 
their platforms. The fundamental— 
although unwritten—planks in each 
were the following: Control of the 
treasury, so that town funds might be 
constantly at hand for private invest- 
ment or gambling; control of the 
machinery of justice, so that the inno- 
cent might be punished and the guilty 
set free ; and possession of the canes 
with the gold and silver cords — em- 
blems of the office of presidenté and 
vice-presidenté—so that all might be 
properly impressed with the dignity 
and magnificence of their possessors. 
In other respects the parties differed 
somewhat. 
Julio’s party stood for the expulsion 
of the Spanish friars, the development 
of the schools, enforcement of the 
laws, progress, and the support of 
Mer. Aglipay—the self-consecrated 
Archbishop of the Philippine Inde- 
pendent Catholic church. Julio said: 
«Don’t vote for Henry Rosario, he is 
white.” (Henry Rosario was three- 
quarters Spaniard, and always posed 
asa full-blooded Castillian ; and Julio, 
though always pretending to be a full- 
blooded Filipino, was said to be the 
illigitimate son of a Spanish priest.) 
Tomas’ platform embraced these 
glowing principles: The defeat of 
Julio; the encouragement of the fol- 
lowers of Pope Isio—a band of re- 
ligious fanatics who lived by burning 
the plantations of Spaniards and pro- 
American natives, robbing and kilJing, 
and extreme conservatism in the en- 
forcement of laws. 
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