Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-07-28


Aguinaldo. the insurgcnt chief. The ques-
ton came UP in the cabinet meeting this
morning. nut IL was the opinion of the
President that Admiral Dewey was en-
tircly competent to handle the situation
and he Is TO be left with fun discretion in
the knowledge that he will not permit
Aguualdo to interfere in any way with
our military occupation of Manila. Gen,
Merritt will become military governor of
the Islands as soon as he shall arrive at
Manila, which will be in about n fort
night and he will manage affairs so as
hest to advance our interests with due re-
gard to the rights of individuals but with
out recognition of any faction.
There will be no embarrassing alliance
at Manila any more than at Santiago The
administration has impicate confidence in
Dewey and Merritt and the next ncws
from the Philippines Is expected to tell Of
American occupation and the establish
ment of unqucstiOncd American control.
So far from complicatinG the situation it
believed here that Aguinaldo's procla-
nation of martial law with himself as die
tator will help to simplify the question Of
the future of the Philippines. 1t now
seems plain that the Uunited States will
liav" to assume entire control and that
our military occupation will develop into
IA permanent government. The European
powers will have interests in the Pacific
H'A'l ''ilHltl'ldl anu ppllllCul anu lUOS'
who have commercial interests in the
Philippines. will not view with compa :
CenCy proposition to withdraw and leave
AguinaldO in control or to abandon the
island to a bloody conflict for supremacy
between the insurgent leader and the
mixed races nj Manila. They will accept
the permanent American occupation as an
assurance OF "A stable government and a
protection of commercial interests ana
individual and national rights
I5ut any attempt on our part to shirls
responsibility will now more certainly than
ever lead to nterforepce by other powers
and to complications i'm which the United
States would surely become cntangled.
Events in the Philippines seem to be ten
ding irresistably toward the establishment
of American control.
The letter of Garcia, the Cuban leader
to Gen. Shaftcr has brought reaction in
the sentiment toward the Cuban nsur-
gents The dignity of Garcia's tone. the
ability with which he writes and the sim
pie dircctncss which characterizcs his
statement of the Cuban cause have made
a marked impression and have lead to the
suspicion that the trouble between Gen.
Shafter and the insurgcnt leaders mt San
tiago may not be due to the insurgents
fault
1t is evident that Shafter has shown III
tie tact in his conduct towards the lnsur-
gents. His dispatches from the front
from the very beginning of the Santiago
campaign have been noticeahly clumsy in
phraseology and lacking in nforma ton
in regard to subjects with which the war
department expected to he fully informed.
He has ben called up many times on ac-
count of his Delinquency as Il reporter.
but without any apparent effect, II is re-
allied at the department that the same
defects which mark his correspondence
with the home government have probably
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