[8] In the early days of the fighting they used to hurrah a good deal, and shout “Viva la Independencia” (Live Independence).
[9] See Judge Taft’s cablegram to Secretary of War Root of August 21, 1900, War Department Report, vol. i., pt. 1, p. 80.
[10] The Caribao Society is an organization composed mainly of officers of the regular army, but to which any one who served as an officer, volunteer or regular, in the Philippine Insurrection, is eligible. Their principal function, like that of the famous Gridiron Club, is to give an annual dinner.
[11] Addresses at Republican National Convention (1904), p. 62, published by Isaac H. Blanchard & Co., New York, 1904. The Republican National Convention of 1900 met June 19th, just sixteen days after the Taft Commission arrived at Manila.
[12] General MacArthur relieved General Otis May 5, 1900, and the Taft Commission arrived at Manila June 3d thereafter.
[13] Correspondence Relating to the War with Spain, vol. ii., p. 1051.
Chapter XIV
The Taft Commission
The papers ’id it ’andsome,