Word: osmena
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...Collectivista or Coalition Party, headed by Señors Quezon and Osmena, based its campaign on its attack on General Wood, saying with all manner of diatribe that he was trying to deprive the Filipinos of their legal rights of self-government...
...Democratic (or minority) Party took a more moderate position. It stands for Philippine independence, which is too popular among the people to bear opposition. But it assails the Quezon-Osmena bosses as grossly corrupt, and is eager to stand behind the Governor in any disclosures he can make of the mismanagement and private ambition of the Quezon group. It is demanding an investigation of expenditures from the Independence Fund which, it is claimed, Quezon and others have misused. In brief, the Democrats regard Quezon as a greater evil than Wood. In the election they lost the city of Manila...
...evening before the election Manuel Quezon was ill, but Osmena was campaigning in the San Nicolas district. About eight o'clock Osmena and several speakers of his party mounted a platform to address a crowd. The audience was mostly Democratic and howled them down. They had dinner on the platform and continued their unsuccessful efforts to speak all through the night. Not until seven o'clock next morning did they give...
General Wood's disclosure tended to confirm this opera bouffe conception of insular politics. On Feb. 16, 1923, General Wood sent to the Philippine Legislature a message dealing principally with the Philippine National Bank. The Legislature never heard the Governor's words because the Quezon-Osmena group which controls the Legislature quietly suppressed the message. Lately members of the Democratic (minority) Party began to agitate for a disclosure of the message which they had never seen. Finally General Wood published...
...popularity of independence as an issue with the people prevents almost all Philippine politicians from taking the opposite side of the question - it would mean a terrible loss of votes. Osmena is far from likely to chance it. Even the Democratic Party, the younger school of politicians, as opposed to the older school of Quezon and Osmena, maintains an attitude of critical assent to Quezon's move. But the Democratic Party can hardly be said to count because it is a very small minority in the Legislature...