Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1901-02-07
Brought Against Delegate
Wilcox. of Hawaii.
SENSATIONAL LETTERS.
He Is Accused of Writing Them
to Insurgent Filipinos.
AN ENEMY OF AMERICANS.
The Charges are Presented 10 Com
gressiOnaI Committee by "a Hawaiian,
Who Asks that wilcox be Ousted
from His Seat i'm Congress.

Washington, Feb. "A petition
containing sensational charges was
submitted Friday to the house COM
mittee on elections No. 1 against Del
egate Robert w. Wilcox, the Hawaii
an representative in the house of rep
resentatives. The charges are made
in writing by George ID. Gear, of
Hawaii, who submitted letters pur-
porting to be copies of letters writ
ten by Wilcox to Filipino officers. One
of the letters said to have been writ
ten by Wilcox is given in duplicate,
bearing the alleged signature of VIII
cox. 1t is dated Honolulu, January
81, 1899, and addressed to DR.. Joseph
Losada, Capt. Marti Burgos and Sc
nor j. Luna, and introduced to them
a friend of mine who is very able
man, to help you in your cause"
Among other things the letter
says: Mr.. - will be useful al
ly TO fight for the cause of the Fill
pinos.
'One thing is sure that you could
resist against any army of INVASION
you have population of 12,000,000
and already a disciplined army of 3d.
900 well equipped with modern arms.
II have already made up my mind
to join with you in your country
against America in case they insist
to ignore the justice of your cause.
| know well my profession as an ar
tillery officer. I have no fear of the
whole world when fight for legiti-
mate cause like yours.
Between Gen. Aguinaldo's deter
mination and myself there would be
very little chance left to the invad-
ing army of the United States to con-
quer your country. Tell Aguinaldo
| am ready to obey orders to 60 to
your country and fight for the inde-
pendence of your people and country
at any moment"
Another letter dated Honolulu,
March S, 1N9G, says: 81 am thinking
to go to the Philippines and give my
assistance to Aguinaldo against the
invaders-the hypocritical Yankees
the carpetbag politician-Otis."
Mr.. Wilcox declined to give any eX-
tended answer to the charges filed
by Mr.. Gear. He says he has no fear
Ol lHe CudIStS lIC dbIilbS tAldt
he wrote a letter to DR.. Losada. Capt.
Burgos and Senior Luna introducing
Caesar Moreno, an Italian of this
city and whom he had known while
the latter was in Hawaii. Moreno
had a meteoric career in Hawaii. For
a few days he was secretary of state.
Mr.. Wilcox saws Moreno is the person
to whom the unaddressed letter filed
by Gear was addressed but he said he
was unable to say whether the let
ters filed were exact copies of those
he sent.
The petition of Gear states that
there was no election machinery
when Wilcox was elected delegate,
November 6, 1900, and alleges that
Wilcox in his speeches prior to the
election made use of the strongest
kind of anti-American utterances for
the purpose of carrying the election,
telling the native Hawiians that the
Americans had stolen their country
and that a vote for him was a vote
for the restoration of the queen, and
that if he were elected the queen
would be restored; that Wilcox was
and is guilty of treason against the
United States, in that as he did since
the annexation of said Hawaiian
islands write and send through the
United States mails certain letters
highly reasonable in their nature,
wherein he did incite others to en-
gage in open rebellion against the
United States and did offer his serv-
ices to Gen. Aguinaldo to go to the
Philippines and fight and engage in
open rebellion against the United.
States, copies of which letters are
herewith fled"
The petition concludes as follows:
'Wherefore, by reason of the foreeo-
ing facts petitioner submits that said
Wilcox is not entitled to a seat in the
house of representatives and that he
should be ousted therefrom."