The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-04
SO-CaIled Amigos and Municipal Off,
GERS, Who Are All Conspiring
Against the United States.
SOME PLoTTERs ARRESTED
BUT THOUSANDS OF OTHERS FO-
MENTING GUERRILLA WARFARE.
Senator Beveridge's Speech Used by
the Insurgents to Support One
of Their Contentious.

MANILA. March g. s:55 p. ma report
has reached the Associated Press from
various sources. including army officers
and the heads of commercial houses with
agents throughout the ISLANDS, of continued
activity among the insurgents. who are
endeavoring to keep alive the armed op-
position to the United States and are plan
ring to continue the insurrection with
guerrilla warfare on larger scale when
the rainy season begins. A person holding
a position second only to that of the gov
ernor general tells the Associated Press he
Is convinced the insurgent organization
has been remarkably rehabilitated during
the past month, particularly in the north
ern provinces. He says the insurgents
have secret organizations patterned after
the Katipunan methods, even in the
strongest garrisoned towns, affording per-
feet means of communication. and that the
machinery is managed from Manila, some
Of the leaders being Filipinos pretending
to be supporters of the American admin
istration, many of the municipal govern
of the machinery.
Two correspondents of leading American
weeklies who have travelled for a month
in Benguet and Ilocos with letters from
insurgent chiefs. going alone fifty miles
from garrisons and being everywhere hos
pitably received, say the people make no
secret of their sympathy with the insur-
rection. Though admitting that the Fill
pino soldiers abuse them, they still protect
these soldiers from the American scouting
parties. They claim to have communica-
ton with Aguinaldo. Paterno is full of
civil and military officials of all ranks of
Aguinaldo's government who were cap
tured or surrendered, and who were
brought here and released on promises to
refrain from agitation.
While many of the insurgent municipal
officers were continued in Office on taking
the oath of allegiance, residents who are
acquainted with them have little faith in
their adherence to their promises. All the
civil officials of Tarlac, capital of the
province of that name, numbering eleven
persons have been arrested and charged
with plotting, and two insurgents have
been captured at Malabon with incrim-
mating papers and $4,000 collected from the
natives.
Some of the municipal governments ap-
pear loyal and efficient. On the other hand.
one American general declares he believes
that the majority in his province are
agents of the insurrection.
A fresh issue of insurgent pamphlets is
being circulated, asserting that the Amer
ican promises Of good government are
merely mask for commercial exploitation
of the Philippines. quoting Senator Bever-
idges speech and an editorial from a
Washington newspaper headed, LET Us
Be Honest"
The trial of the guerrilla charged with
murder is finished and it is believed the
commissions verdict will be guilty. In
dictments against others have been pre-
pared.
No report has been received from Gen.
Batas's expedition. He has probably moved
inland, where communication with him is
impracticable.
The army throughout the island of Luzon
is working hard, securing the country for
insurgents and killing a few daily. The
section from Manila to Dagupan has been
thoroughly cleared, the scouting parties be-
ing unable to find any insurgents. General
Funston and Colonel Kennan took two
hundred men through the mountains to
Baler, on the eastern coast. without meet
ing an insurgent. But they are active
along the northern coast, from Dagupan
to Aparri. Occasional reports come of an
American soldier being killed or disappear
ing. In the southern provinces the insur-
gents continue to harass the American gar
risons by night demonstrations.