Note 12 — Chapter XIII · MacArthur and the War
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By the spring of 1900, when General MacArthur relieved General Otis, the volunteers of 1899 had gotten thoroughly warmed up to the work of showing the Filipinos who was in fact “the boss of the show,” and by June, 1900, when Judge Taft arrived, they had gotten still warmer12; and in General Otis’s successor they had a commander who understood his men thoroughly, and was determined to carry out honestly, with firmness, and without playing, as his predecessor had done, the rôle of political henchman, the purpose for which the army he commanded had been sent to the Islands to accomplish. In this state of the case, the Taft Commission came out.