De Alexander: “Tilden swore that "no offer, no negotiation in behalf of any member of any Returning Board was ever entertained by me…”

Referring to the fraudulent practices, he said: "No one claims, no one believes, that I had lot or part therein, or previous hint or suspicion thereof.

Shows the historical reasons for the present method, and its effect on the senate and senators, and on state and local government, with a detailed review of the arguments for and against direct election.

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.

A keen, exhaustive and merciless criticism of the whole Philippine experiment....