Sakay, a big problem to the Americans in establishing their pacification program and their benevolent assimilation campaign in the country, in 1905 Governor-General Henry Clay Ide authorized Dominador Gomez a Filipino labor leader, to negotiate with Sakay. Gomez met with Sakay at his camp and persuade him that the establishment of a national assembly was being held up by Sakay's resistance and that its establishment would be a big step toward Filipino independence.
# 1944...upang ipakita ng "puppet government" ng pangulong Jose P. Laurel na tunay na makabayan, mapagtakpan ang kaharasan, kalupitan at ang pagpatay sa maraming Pilipino ng mga Hapon at ang batas militar na ipinaiiral, pamahalaang puppet ay tinawag na "Second Philippine Republic."