Suppose this offensive ring, with its unfinished courthouse and its thousand other schemes of robbery and plunder, controls the political power of the State and nation as it now dominates the metropolis, what honest Democrat can charge corruption to the opposite party?
De Alexander: “Suppose this offensive ring, with its unfinished courthouse and its thousand other schemes of robbery and plunder…”
On the record
Source
gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Alexander questions the integrity of Democrats if they allow a corrupt ring to dominate political power.
Share
More from De Alexander
He writes of the Filipinos as he found them, and with the knack of the true investigator, has avoided falling in with the political views of any party or faction.
In his text he explains the controversy so that the plain man may understand it, while in the notes he adduces the evidence that the specialist requires....
A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....
Indeed, his administration admittedly ranked with the best that had adorned the State for a century, and his friends, including Independents and many Stalwarts, rallied with energy to his support.





