Aguinaldo's Plan To Resurrect The Katipunan August 1900
Emilio Aguinaldo (1869-1964) The President On the Run The biggest tragedy in the short-lived Malolos Republic was that some names identified with it were either opportunist, fence-sitters, or worst, turncoats that not even the brilliant mind of Mabini could muster enough force to check that time the growing influence in the government of such personalities as Pedro Paterno et al. "Collaborators"... that was how Emilio Aguinaldo labeled Pedro Paterno when he found out that the latter was favoring an American take over of the Philippines. Months after the outbreak of the Filipino-American War, Aguinaldo was on the run and was planning to direct a guerilla warfare in the jungles of Luzon. The sad reality was, most of the prominent Filipinos who were once part of his government had simply abandoned him and went to the other side. Aguinaldo then turned to his former Prime Minister, Mabini. He conferred upon Mabini the power to negotiat