1897 - Filipino revolutionary and patriot Gen. Artemio Ricarte y Garcia reluctantly takes his oath of office in a clandestine ceremony after being elected the General-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Army under a new body designed to replace the underground-movement-turned-revolutionary-body Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK) during the anomalous Tejeros Convention
two days earlier, seven months into the Philippine Revolution against
Spain; Ricarte has initially refused to take the oath because he
believes the elections were marred by fraud
and because he thinks he is not qualified to hold the job; the
convention proved to be scandalous and was declared invalid and
fraudulent by Andres C. Bonifacio, the Supremo of the original
revolutionary body, Katipunan;
Bonifacio earlier agreed to chair the convention despite the fact that
the Katipunan was already a revolutionary body in his patriotic bid to
unite the warring Magdiwang and Magdalo factions of the KKK in Cavite province, and despite prior reports that the Imus crowd in the province wanted only men from their pueblos to be elected and that pre-filled ballots carrying
Magdalo names were distributed; Bonifacio ended up being insulted by
Daniel Tirona who scandalously disrespects the balloting by questioning
the Supremo's credentials and asking the crowd to elect another man in
his place; along with Ricarte, Emilio F. Aguinaldo and Mariano Trias
take their oath in a ceremony kept hidden from the Magdiwang, with the controversial Tirona as one of the witnesses, and with Bonifacio not having been invited.
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