The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-06-21
THURSDAY, JUNE 81, 1900.
Aguinaldo a Dead Issue.

AGUINALDO may not be dead man,
but he is certainly dead issue. Gen.
Otis says Aguina1do lis probably hid
ing somewhere in the mountains OF
Northern Luzon, but he carries little
more influence than any other individ-
ua1 running at large" Gen. Otis is
certainly in as good position as any
one to Judge of the condition in which
later operations in the Philippines
have left the ex-Headman. The in
surrection has been reduced to the
desultory fighting of few guerilla
bands, and as far as can be heard or
learned Aguina1do is not considera-
ton. For some time he has been ex-
treme1y obscure. His would-be gov
eminent is utterly vanished, and even
those who are captured by the Ameri-
cans are as ignorant of the where
abouts of Aguina1do and his move
ments as the least Informed private
among the American troops. He is
certainly out of the fighting and for
heard regarding his movements. In
what little fighting there is left of the
instruction it is evident that Aguin-
aldo is of no importance.
Moreover, Aguina1do is no longer an
issue because events have lately trans
pired that dis play him to the public in
his true light. The so called anti-im-
peria1ists have endeavored to arouse
sentiment against the present admins
tration by representing Aguinaldo as
the embodiment of ali that is most
noble and most admired by Americans.
They have even placed him in the cate
cory with George Washington. They
have loved TO picture him as an heroic
leader of an heroic band of patriots
struggling against enormous odds in
the cause of liberty. They have
charged that Admiral Dewey promised
to aid him in throwing off the yoke OF
Spanish oppression, and that this
country was guilty of a most unjustifi-
able breach in not having fulfilled that
promise. The repeated denials of Ad-
m1ra1 Dewey, and other generals, Of the
existence of such promise have in no
way deferred the "AEtis." But a doc
ument recently discovered and read
before the Senate by Senator Spooner
shows that at the very time Aguin-
aldo professed to be the trusted ally of
the Americans in the war with Spain,
he was plotting with the Spanish Gen
era1 in command at Manila to join
forces with him and his army of Fill
pinos to crush the then small army OF
Americans at Manila. Thus the
George Washington-like Aguina1dc
not only invited the Spanish General
to become traitor to his country, but
he himself was ready at a moments
notice to join with the Spaniards in
fighting the Americans of whom he
was then pretending to be the friend
and ally.
Another document recently discov-
cred by Gen. Funston among a mass
of insurgent papers seized near San
Isidro, in the island of Luzon, the
genuineness of which is incontestible,
clearly shows the Nervousness and
barbarism of Aguinaldo's plan to
massacre the Americans in Manila, as
we'll as the baseness and perfdy of the
Taga1 leader. This horrible scheme
of butchery, the full details of which
are given in the document, were fully
determined upon month before the
treaty of peace with Spain was ratified,
1t proves the attitude of Aguina1do and
completely refutes the charge that the
clash between the Americans and Fill
pinos on February 5, the day before
the treaty was ratified, was due to
American aggression.
The condition of affairs III the PhiG-
ippines at present, the position of i'm
potence into which Aguina1do has
fallen, and the character and purpose
of the man whom the "Antis'' have
paraded as hero and martyr, as re-
vea1ed in the two documents, have en-
tire1y and effectua11y disposed of Agui-
na1do and Aguina1do's cause as an
issue in this or any other campaign.
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