The population of Echague is fifty-four thousand.

On October 2, 1898, at Cabagan Nuevo, Isabela, one hundred and eleven men voted out of a population of sixty-two hundred and forty.

On January 29, 1899, the town of Hernani, in Samar, elected its municipal officials under the supervision of V.Lukban.

Fifty-four men voted.

The town has a population of twenty-five hundred and fifty-five.
The elections, so-called, were not always held without protest.