Other important Propagandists include Graciano Lopez Jaena, a noted orator and pamphleteer who had left the islands for Spain in 1880 after the publication of his satirical short novel, Fray Botod (Brother Fatso), an unflattering portrait of a provincial friar.

In 1889 he establishes a biweekly newspaper in Barcelona, La Solidaridad (Solidarity), which becomes the principal organ of the Propaganda Movement, having audiences both in Spain and in the islands.

Its contributors include Rizal; Dr. Ferdinand Blumentritt, an Austrian geographer and ethnologist whom Rizal had met in Germany; and Marcelo del Pilar, a reform-minded lawyer.

Del Pilar is active in the antifriar movement in the islands until obliged to flee to Spain in 1888, where he becomes editor of La Solidaridad and assumes leadership of the Filipino community in Spain.