Module I: Thinking Like a Historian - Worksheet for Primary sources on the Tejeros
Convention.
Name: AGUSTIN, Angela Shane M.____ Section BSN 1-A_______
Document Santiago Alvarez’ “Memoir of a General”
Santiago Alvarez was born in Imus, Cavite on July 25,
1872 and died in San Pablo, Laguna on October 30,
1930. He became the Captain General of the Magdiwang
and fought with honor against Spain in the year 1896-
1807. He was a revolutionary general in the military and
Author’s background
was an honorary president of the first directorate of the
Nacionalista party. He was popularly known as “Kidlat ng
Apoy” or Lightning of Fire for he displayed with the
utmost bravery and commitment as a commander in the
battles of Dalahican, Cavite.
When was the
The account was published in the year 1992..
account written?
Sequence of events On March 25, 1897, the gathering at Tejeros was finally
convened. The main point of their discussion is to
strengthen the defenses in the areas that are still under
the Magdiwang control. They have prepared the following
positions: president, vice president, minister of finance,
minister of warfare, minister of justice, and captain
general to proceed to the election.
Before the election began, the Supremo justified that the
winner for each position should get the highest number of
votes regardless of his status in life or educational
background.
Mr. Diego Mojica, the Magdiwang secretary of treasury,
warned the Supremo that most of the ballots distributed
were not filled out by the voters themselves.The
Supremo disregarded this.
When the votes for the position of president were
counted, Mr. Emilio Aguinaldo’s votes surpassed Mr.
Andres Bonifacio’s votes, he was elected as the
president. Mr. Severino de las Alas suggested that Mr.
Bonifacio should be proclaimed as the vice president
considering he got the second highest votes. Since
nobody approved nor disapproved of the proposal, they
proceeded to the election.
Mariano Trias was elected as the vice president, General
Vibora was elected as the captain, Mr. Emiliano R. de
Dios for the secretary of war, and Mr. Bonifacio for the
secretary of interior. Then the crowd applauded and
yelled “Mabuhay!”
The election hasn’t finished yet, Mr. Daniel Tirona
requested for the restoration of order against Mr.
Bonifacio. He suggested Mr. Jose del Rosario to replace
Mr. Bonifacio since Mr. Bonifacio has no credentials as to
why he is deserving of the position. But Mr. Bonifacio
stood up and defended himself, he said that they should
abide by the appointed rules before the election started--
that the candidate is not required to have an educational
background or any status in life.
Causing embarrassment, Mr. Tirona ignored the
Supremo and left. The Supremo declared all the topics
discussed in the meeting null and void.
a.) The narrative stated what happened during the
assembly in the Tejeros convention. The narrative
became a credible source as it was taken from Alvarez's
Strengths and
own point of view because he was present in that period
weaknesses of the
of time.
accounts
b.) The narrative was limited to Alvarez’s own point of
view in that period of time, it was only dependent on him
alone.
The author’s focus is on the election that happened in
Tejeros convention alone. He only highlighted the flow of
the election, he elaborated the exchange of ideas
Author’s bias
involved in the meeting and how the delegation of the
candidates had been done. The author did not mention
any events after the election.
The document provides us an eye to be able to
Contribution of the understand and look at what are the circumstances that
document to the grand happened under Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines.
narrative of Philippine It gave us information about how the Filipinos run the
History government under foreign colonization and how the
Filipinos play politics as a dirty game.
