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Show Filipinos Wish to Stay. W N Swarout, one of the Philippine Philip-pine delegates to the democratic National Na-tional convention at St. Louis, sa)s that the great majority of the Fillpl-Inos Fillpl-Inos desire to stay with the United States and don't want to be cast adrift. M. Swarout, commenting on the Philippine question in New York, says: "In reviewing the speech of accept-. ance of President Roosevelt as a means I of attacking the policy of the administration admin-istration In the Philippines, the Sep-1 tcmbcr Issue of 'Current Literature' states that 'the republican convention ignored the petition signed by 7,000 cltlcns, Including college presidents and piofessors, clergymen and other eminent professional men, who asked that the Filipinos should be assured of our Intentions tlnally to give them their political Independence' If the editor of 'Cm rent Llteiature' would keen posted on Philippine airalrs, he would not make the mistake of Imagining Imag-ining that he is helping the Filipino 1 by assisting In tlie independence agl-j tatlon now going on in the United 1 States. "I would call his attention to the fact that seventy times 7,000 Filipinos havo petitioned that thev bo perman-l cntl) allied with the Uhlted States un-1 der 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 do Tavcia, in a speech before the New York Chamber' of Commerce, In which he refoirod to the linal settlement of the Filipino' question, said: 'Hut all the Filipinos ask is that when the time comes to take action that action shall not be taken without consulting tho people I of the Islands." Another thing, it would be impossible impossi-ble at the present time to secure the signatures of seven thousand Filipinos, able to write their names, to add to j the petition of the seven thousand professors clergymen and other em-' inent piofessional men, and, one might! add, professional busybotlies. The) platform and resolutions of the democratic demo-cratic convention, whlcn was held hi I Manila, P. 1. Apill, :10, of this year, for the purpose of sending delegates to the democratic national convention at St. Louis, and which was comprised of both native and American delegates from all sections of the Philippine Islands, Is-lands, contained this paragraph: "We believe that the destinies of tlie Philippine Islands and the United States are tirmly united, and that a form of territorial government slml-liar slml-liar to that now In force In Porto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands should be granted to tlie Philippines at the eai-llest eai-llest practicable date." On account of this paragrauh the voices of this delegation were not heard in tho party councils. They had been properly recognlc and seat ed by the committee on credentials, but were gagged In Hie convention by tlie arbltary rulings of tlie temporal)1 chairman, .John Sharp Williams, who, at the Instigation of tlie party leaders, lead-ers, refused a roll-call, which undoubtedly undoubt-edly would have shown that the majority ma-jority of tlie delegates present were In favor of recognl.lng the Philippine delegation The reason giving for refusing re-fusing to credit tills delegation was that "the supreme court had decided that the Philippines Acre not a pan of tlie United States," but the real reason was that the framcrsof the "seven thousand petition" were present, pre-sent, and the deinociatic bosses needed need-ed their help more than they did that of the delegation and the people whom thoy represented, who, unfortunately, havo no votes, |