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Show IPMU.S. GflOI BITTER IH PHILIPPINES Disorders Regarded as a Possibility When Insular Elections Are Held Next Tuesday Freedom Issue MA VILA. Kept. 29 i By A. T "With the Insular vti-rttnn onlj three days off. the fitcat hitter political campaign In the I'hllipplne Islands enter l lie rnited HtaUi assumed tiio administration of envernmrnt lcre i dmwing to a rlt. Keeling Keel-ing hna reached a high pitch In both politics) camps and dmorders are regarded aa a possibility. Alllioush (iovcrnor ticnerai Ienn-nil Ienn-nil WikhI iloca not look for serious (Itaturhancr. he and other government govern-ment ofMcinla hsv made prepara-tunis prepara-tunis to foreejlitll or at least sup-presta sup-presta nny oiithrenk. , Itroadly the carnpilcn Issue Is Independence In-dependence for the I hllipplnea. The Itemocralti party favors cnntlnu ance of American administration, the Coalitionists, under the leadership leader-ship of Munuel Quezon, are opposed to the administration. The Coali-tionlMs Coali-tionlMs frunkly say the citnipalgn has had the word "American as a byword of derision. Uigh government nfflclsla Are I ttaawn to regard many of the f yballtlonist speeches as Inflam- tiiatory and aedltlons to the utmost ! f limit possible without prosecution and ht'lleve the snenkern counted j ' on (ha tolerance of Amcrlr.ins snd th American go eminent to avr them from being taiken to tusk. On nf th most hitter fights In I the mmiialgn has been waged shout the question of expenditure frm the million peso Independence fund w hlch Is controlled by Coalitionist I J. gislators. 3Hemlera of the Tcm-arata Tcm-arata party have made a determined deter-mined effort to get authorls-ttlon in examine disbursement voucher. To this end mandamus proceedlncs were brought In the Insular supreme court to force (Governor Oeneral "Wood to authorise tha Invest Ir-h-ttnn. The suprenie court has refused re-fused to sustain the pet 11 ion. When tha petition was filed the Democrat) Demo-crat) railed a meeting for today, but on .hearing nf the court's sc-tmn sc-tmn they called the meeting off indefinitely. in-definitely. Losing the court fight was ths signal (or a fresh outbreak of bit-t.-rness among the Democrats. It Is the opinion of government officials offi-cials that , serious dlsturhsnces would result but for the presence of large firces of constabulary. In the provinces ther Is a pp.1 r-i r-i ently little Interest or excitement. . but la Mm n I la feeling is high. There 1 are hundreds of students her whp . eare known lo bo radical. . (jovernur tlenernl Wood doe not ' feel that any of th attack are dl-( dl-( rccted at bbn personally, but that they nre iart of ths effort to sup-! sup-! " plant American government as out llntd by the Jones law with an administration ad-ministration controlled by th In- sular legislature and dotnlnaled by f t.i-ieion and his group. Meanwhile ( m irovernor reneral has reaaeerf- JSM bis eisnd as "to keep unsullied I jfhm reputation and undiminished Ar th sovereignty of th Vnltetl States U thes Islands." . |