Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1902 — TELLS OF SURRENDER. [ARTICLE]

TELLS OF SURRENDER.

Admiral Dewey Describes How Manila Was Given Up. Admiral Dewey has told to the Senate committee on the Philippines his Ktory of the battle of Manila Bay and the events immediately following. He says he did certain things and did not do certain other things. As he remarked to the committee, he was simply “a long ways from home; there were no cables, and I was meeting emergencies as they arose.” That he met these emergencies is not doubted by the American people, nor do they question his version of the brief but brilliant bit of history of which he directed the making. What interests us more now is the admiral's emphatic denial that he ever recognized Aguinaldo’s government, ever saluted Aguinaldo’s flag, ever called Agninaldo “general” or ever gave the Philippine republic the slightest recognition, for he had no authority to do so and did not consider it an organized government. Manila was surrendered to Dewey by the Spaniards under agreement and immediately following the defeat of the Spanish fleet. It was not then occupied by the Americans simply because Dewey had no troops to garrison it. Dewey says he knew nothing of the aspirations of the Filipinos toward independence until he received Aguinaldo’s proclamation on July 15. a month and a half after the decisive battle of Manila Bay. And Dewey thought so little of this proclamation that he did not Tot her to cable it to Washington, but left its transmission to the mails. In short, the admiral throughout hii recital declares that he gave Aguinaldo and the Filipinos no reason to hope that he approved of their efforts to found a republic. But he maintains his original statement that he considers the islanders more capable of self-government than the Cubans.