Arizona republican., 1901-09-18
POWER OF FEDERALS
Philippine Society Which Is
 Working for Peace
Members Did Good Missionary Work Among Armed Natives-Urged to Cease Opposition and Band To gether.

Washington, Sept. 1.-The story of |, the organization of the federal party | in the Philippine islands is told intr- | estingly and concisely in documents ] circulated by the Philippine Informa- ! ton society. It was the federal party |, to which General MacArthur referred when, in a cablegram to Washington on December 9 last. he said:
 'Pro-American natives. Manila, with chief justice at the head, have organ ized party which apparently has some clements of cohesion and usefulness"
 His prophecy has since been amply justified.
 Among the Pro o-Americans'' at the head of the movement for n new party were Senor Buencamino, former prem fer in the called government of Aguinaldo; Colonel Aquiles and Frank F. Bourns. an American, formerly chief surgeon and health officer of Manila. Buencamino delivered a speech at the Royal Theatre urging the people to cease opposing the American govern ment and to band together for peace. | They would soon be joined, he urged, by the Filipinos in arms.
 FEDERAL MANIFESTO. On Sunday. December 23. 1900, the l federal party promulgated it's platform with manifesto. on file in the insular department of the war department. We call ourselves the federal party" | the manifesto runs. because under American sovereignty the highest and unanimous aspirations of the Filipinos will be to become a part of its United States) federation, constituting a free and sovereign state in the form now | enjoyed by the states of the Union. | Consistent to the principles that guide us, we call, not to any special class, but to all our brothers, to all i Filpinos. We stretch forth our arms. in order that united we can victoriously say that peace has come on a solid basis
 A section of the platform of th= fed eral party for what its leaders called the preliminary period that is. pre- liminary to pacification and civil gov ernment provided for recognition of the sovereignty of the United States, which win be represented in these isl- ands by a liberal, democratic and rep resentative government. and for 'in- dividual- rights. liberties and guara Il tees Of person. property ana domicile. with freedom of worship and complete separation of church and state
 NATIVES IN CONGRESS.
 The section of the platform for the constitutional period provides, in
 brief. for five representative of the Philippine people to the congress of the
 United States; for a native house of
 representatives and native senate and
 for a governor-general. department
 governors. provincial governors and the
 like. The governor-generai shall have
 the right of veto. the platform states, under the conditions and restrictions
 contained in the United States consti-
 tuition for the executive veto. Taxation
 bills shall originate in the house. The judiciary shall be appointed by the | president of the United States, and jus 7 tices of the peace shall be appointed by the president of the supreme court or
 propositions from the municipalities. Further, the territory of the Philip ! pine islands may be considered as ont of the states of the Union, but it car never be ceded in whole or in part by ' the United States to any foreign pow
 err The platform concludes with thu statement that the foregoing funda U mental principles constitute in a con crete form the aspirations of this party II which hopes at the same time that tn, 7, amendments and objectrons which ma! U be made by the government of tn United States will be of the most libera and democratic nature"
 The federalists were vital factors il
 the pacifcation of the islands. Thei
 leaders accompanied the Taft commis L. sion in it's travels, and when the com i, mission visited pueblo the federalist f would call a meeting at which a loca . group of the federal party would b Q formed to work for the pacification O q the country round about.
 l. PROTECTION PROMISED. ., The movement spread with extraor d dinary rapidity, says the Philippine In ii formation society. owing 10 a coinci d dence of events. prominent anon 70 which was the proclamation Of Decenl . Der 20. whereby it was brought home [
 the natives that the Americans were
 the Philippines to stay, and that thos
 who adhered to Americas cause woul
 be protected.
 The earlier movement, initiated ! Is June, 1900. aimed at independence unde
 protectorate. It received little SUI
 port, largely. no doubt, because th
 Filipinos felt that, with the America of election pending. it was the time fC .. fighting and not for attempts at neg'
 tiation.
 After the election the situation wi ie Changed. The war faction had playe le it's strongest card and lost. The coui at try needed peace, and the question w; le not what the Filipinos wanted b' m what they could hope to get. Accor'
 ingly. when in December. 1900, ti r peace movement reappeared in u ',, form of federal party" it was up. , a less ambitious basis.
 Not many weeks later another pea ne movement was launched under Il re name of the Partido Conservador. ne recommended the acceptance of Unit he States sovereignty as a temporary e