West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-10-11
WHY HE DIDN'T.
Consul Williams Not in Limo With
Republicans.
Our Paramount lssuc-why he Had 10
Talk Other Things He Secured Agui-
naldo as an Ally for Americans
teresting Letter.

When Consul Williams was here
II this county last week speaking
he said very little in defense of I'm
perialism, why he said no more is
shown in the following article from
the Charleston Gazette
Among the speakers who have
been stumping West Virginia in the
interest of Mckinley and upholdng
his Philippine policy, is O. +. VIII
liams, who as Consul at Manila at
the time the war broke out. He
had number of conferences with
Aguinaldo, and did much TO bring
about an understanding between
him and the United States forces.
in reference to co operation be.
tween them in the Philippines. AT
the time that Dewey was ordered to
Manila to strike the Spanish feet
there, and destroy it, he found the
filipinos making stubborn fight
against the Spanish land forces for
their independence. The Spanish
army had been driven into the city
OF Manila and few fortified towns
and the natives virtually had pos
session of the islands They had
the city surrounded when Dewey
arrived in the bay, and it would
have been but a question Of few
months when they would have
driven the Spanish out or captured
them. While Dewey was able to
cope with the Spanish fleet he was
neither able to protect himself
against the Spanish army or the
Filipinos, if they saw fit to oppose
him. For this reason he was in a
precarious situation after he had
DESTROYED the fleet and on this ac-
count every effort was made to win
over the Filipinos and get them to
cooperate with him against the
Spanish until our troops could be
sent there 10 support him. Consul
Williams took an active part in
bringing about an understanding
between Dewey and the Filipinos
and got them to understand that
the United States did not seek 10
interfere with their fight for indie.
pendence but was simply striking a
deadly blow at SPAN at that time a
common enemy Of both the United
States and the Filipinos. BY these
representations he won them over
and their support held the Spanish
army at bay until our troops could
arrive there from the United States.
Consul Williams made the Filipinos
our allies and his own papers show
it, yet to-day he is stunping the
country supporting the policy OF
Mckinley which falsihes the prom.
ises he made the Filipinos at the
time their support was needed To
sustain us. Even as late as January,
1909 Williams wrote a letter 20 a
newspaper at Rochester, N. Y, in
which he reciles the services done by
Aguinaldo and his forces, and the
part he took in securing their aid.
In this letter be said
"HoDored Friend-f note a
| garbled and distorted statement run.
ming through the papers that ad.
yocaied buying or bribing the sub.
mission OF the Filipinos. This is
false. What I did argue was that
from May . 70 August I3 they we're
our allies, aiding greatly in the cap.
ture, restraint and defeat Of com
mon enemy, and that for such aid
they should be modestly paid; that
such payment was just and would
cement good feeling that but for
the belcaguring Of Manila by them
the army T3,ooo) Of Spain would
not have surrendered TO US August
I3, but would have scattered in the
stronghold Of the provinces and on
other islands, and that for their
capture and subjeotion long time.
many lives and vast treasure must
have been expended.
THAT had Aguinaldo not done