Abstract
The month of April had seen the atrocities debate move from a relatively obscure political skirmish, involving only the Secretary of War and the members of the Senate Committee on the Philippines, to a front-page scandal that inspired speeches on the floor of the full Senate. The debate continued throughout the month of May, repeating lines of argument from the previous month and adding a few new ones. These new arguments included an accountability politics debate over whether the administration and the senior military leadership in the Philippines were responsible for the water cure and a symbolic debate over how the violence against noncombatants in the Philippines compared to violence in the Civil War and Indian conflicts.
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Sarah Watts, Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003); Roosevelt to Elihu Root, May 9, 1902, and Roosevelt to Hermann Speck von Sternberg, July 19, 1902, in Theodore Roosevelt, Letters, Volume 3, 260, 297–298.
Theodore Roosevelt, Works of Theo dore Roose velt, 1858–1919, Presidential Addresses and State Papers, Volume 1 (New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1927), 56–67.
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Einolf, C.J. (2014). The Scandal Recedes, May–June 1902. In: America in the Philippines, 1899–1902. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460769_9
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