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Show FILIPINOS ELECT AMERICAN ' ' H Natives Vote for the First Time, -and ! the Election Is Orderly. j jH WASHINGTON. March 2. Gov.-Gcn. Idn H has cabled tli'j War department torn Mnnllo. ! nn account of the outcome of the Flilllpplnn ! elections Wednesday. Theae provincial elcctlonn ! Ixdng In n vny r-Uuciitlonul f(,r the Filipinos. ! who arc tim:f-d to cufrraRe in any form; th- H result are watched with the keenest InU-ri-Mt HH by tho War department. Tho text of Cow 1 I do"? dlnpateli follow: H "Provincial elections ntlsfactory. Not a H Hlnglc Inmnneo of dlnordr. although many ! ballots wero required to fleet tit numrou In- I iHances. Have confirmed all elected except H three puspended for lnvi-tlgatlon, charged with flH j bribery and Intimidation. H An American Elected. "Snndlko and Deveym were elected and ron- H finned, alra Reynolds, an American, who wn H elected on the f'-vcnti-cnth ballot. Klshl of , H the. present Governors were reelected." H It In said t bat Sar.dlko Is a leading agitator 1 fnf indeiiendcncc Deveym Is a prominent H ncwfpuper mnn among 11k- Filipinos. ' B Ttoynold:' wan a Captain cf the Thirty-first I H .olunteer rcclment and was subsequently ap- H pointed tr-asun-r of tho province of Albay. of ' flH which he hna donbtlcs been elected Governor. |