Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-30
FILIPINoS WISH TO STAY.
Delegate Says They Don't want 10 DC
Cast Adrift.

w, y. Swarto1It. one of the Phillp-
pine delegates 70 the Democratic Ma
tionai Convention az St. LOUIS says
that the great ma iority OF the rillp'ii''
desire To stay with the unlteu S'a..''
and do not want to b" cast auill.. W :
Swartout. commenting on the fhiiip-
pine question in New YORK. SAYS
IN reviewing the speech OF acceP-
lance of President Roosevelt as
means of attacking the policy OF the
administration in the Philippines. the
September issue of Current Literature
states that the Republican convention
ignored the petition signed by ''ooV
citizens. including college piesldeii's
and professors. clergymen ana othel
eminent professional men. WI" asker
that the Filipinos should be assured oi
our intentions finally to give theih
their political independence. IL 'h'
editor of Current Literature "ouiu
keep posted on Philippine AFFAIRS ne
would not make the mistake Oh lildSih-
ing that he is helping the Filipino by
assisting in the independence agitation
now going on in the United States.
Il would call his attention to the
tact that seventy times '.ooo flilplnos
have petitioned that they be pcrma-
nently allied 18th the United States
under a territorial form of government
This great aggregation. called the
Federal party, represents the solid,
educated and responsible body of the
Filipino people, and its spokesman.
Commissioner Pardo de TaVera, in a
Nll.lr, t1nv
OF Commerce. in which he referred to
the Enal settlement OF the Philippine
question, said: But all the F1lipinos
ask is that when the time comes to
take action that action shall not be
taken without consulting the people OF
he islands,
AnC Their thing, it would be impossible
at the present time to secure the sig
natures OF seven thousand F'ilipinOS,
able to sign their names, to add to the
Petition of the seven thousand profess
sorS, clersymen and other eminent
professional men. and, one might ado,
professional busy-bodies. The plat.
form and resolutions of the Democratic
convention, which was held in Manila,
+. l.. April so. of this year, for the pur-
pose of sending delegates to the Demo-
cratic National Convention at ST.
Louis, and which was comprised of both
native AID American delegates from al
sections of the Philippine Islands, con-
tanned this paragraph:
w e believe that the deStinioS of tho.
philippine Islands and the United
States are firmly united. and that a
1OIm of territorial government Similn p
To that low in force in Porto Rico and
the Hawaiian Islands should be granted
TO the Philippines at the earliest practi-
cable date"
ON account of tkis para craph the
voices OF this delegation were not heard
IN the party councils. They had been
properly recognized and seated by the.
committee Oh credentials, but were
gagged i'll the convention by the arbI>
lri'ry rulings of the temporary chair
man, John Sharp Williams, who. at the
ihstlgation of the party leaders. refused
a roll-call. which undoubtedly would
nave shown that the majority of the
delegates present We're N favor of rec
oshlZlng the Philippine delegation.
vas th&t the Supreme Court had de-
clded that the Philippines were not a
part of the United States" but the real
reason was that the trainers of the
seven thousand petition" we've pre;,r;
ana the Democratic BOSSES needed thei,
heip more t''tn they aid that of the del
eSation ara the people whom they rep
resented. who unfortunately. hava no
votes.