Katipunan - Schism and Disestablishment

Schism and Disestablishment

In the course of the revolution against Spain, a split developed between the Magdiwang faction (led by Gen. Mariano Álvarez) and the Magdalo faction (led by Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo, cousin of General Emilio Aguinaldo), both situated in Cavite.

At a convention in Tejeros, Cavite, the revolutionaries assembled to form a revolutionary government. There, Bonifacio lost his bid for the presidency of the revolutionary government to Emilio Aguinaldo and instead was elected Secretary of the Interior. When members of the Magdalo faction tried to discredit him as uneducated and unfit for the position, Bonifacio declared the results of the convention as null and void, speaking as the Supremo of the Katipunan. Despite this, Aguinaldo took his oath of office as president the next day in Santa Cruz de Malabon (present-day Tanza) in Cavite, as did the rest of the officers, except for Bonifacio. Andres Bonifacio and his brother was later arrested upon orders of Gen. Aguinaldo and executed on May 10, 1897 at Mount Buntis in Maragondon,Cavite. He and his brother Procopio was buried in an unmarked grave. Thus ended the existence of the real Katipunan, replaced by Aguinaldo's own revolutionary government.