Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-08-11 | Page 2 | Results of Manila Elections Do Not Please Americans

RESULTS Of MANILA ELECTIONS DO NOT PLEASE AMERICANS Said to D Demonstrate Incapacity Incapacity incapacity Inca inca- of Natives for Self t. t MANILA Aug Aug- 11 Returns H.-Returns Returns from the municipal election show that Simon Villa carried the southern district of tho city being elected alderman by a wide plurality while whilo Roman Diokno was triumphant for the similar office in the northern district defeating Dominador Gomez for the place Justo was elected to the assembly assembly as as- from the northern district Simon Villa is an officer ex-officer of the tho insurgent in in- army and only escaped trial for forthe tho the murder of a Spanish officer bv by the tho 1 general meral amnesty proclamation lie tIe i ithe is the man whose hose incendiary iary speeches during dur duro ing his campaign aroused the Americans and Spaniards s of the city to such an extent that protest was made b by tho the Spanish consul general to Governor General Smith as aB the result of Villas Villas' J public declaration that in tho event of another revolution he ho would advocate the thc slaughter of all an Spaniards on the island Governor Smith replied that these statements had no weight as Villa ViBa hold held no no office Diokno is a lawyer an anthe and the leader of the tho lu lI or p party of the tho city It is doubted by Americans here that the government will allow Villa to be bo seated objection to his holding office being mado made on the ground found that ho he is morally unfit to the duties rind and responsibilities of a n position such as that to which he has been elected The A American merIcan residents and others of the foreign n population of Manila are opposed to the rapid extension of the ballot to tho the Filipinos declaring that the election l of Villa and Diokno clearly demonstrates the incapacity of the na natives natives na- na tives for self government as yet