Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-19

handicap, and It may be the lack OF
such viii prove to be very power
ful element
stIaws proverbially show how the
wind blows, and II is presumed they
Gun, with equal facility. denote Ia
changes. II so, Ii Hung Chsny's stan
ana advisers have a groatef signins
canoe Khan tne svofts themselves would
s4cun 70 Imply. Runiors have been cur
rent In peldn for some time that Chang
Pei-lun, the viceioy's son-in-law, was
about 20 be expelled from iamet IN
Tlen Tsin. The shrcwd at nrst sus-
pected that there had been acme con.
fusion on the part OF the palace caves
troopers regarding the Identity OF the
Changs. liz WIS known TINT LIS two
nephew's bearing this cognonen had
incurred the cenBor's WRATH and were
about TO be cashiered, but 1t now turns
out that both items OF news afc cor.
rect.
The Chinese carry the doctrine OF
responsibility to absurd lcngtAs, and
from the moment that Japaucss
Soy was discovered IN the household
OF the secretary OF Chang SaenS.nE
the ordnance Tao. I, WAS evident that
the latter was marked down as the
quarry OF the censors. Il "a wIdpiy
known that In his custody OF the shot
and shell he carried official frngality
TO the limits OF treason, and that to
ais admmistra I've demerlt was due
the dlsgraceful condition OF the fleet
magAzincs The outbreak " hostlitles
found the Pelyang squadron almnst 1T.
orally without n shot In the locker,
His equally notorious broihcr. Chang
shlh-Yu. the chief director OF the i'm.
perlal railway, went even to greater
extremes In patriotic parainiony. Both
In Formosa and Chill this great
fiscal luminagy kept 80 tenacious u
grip on the purse strings that railway
progress was more than once brought
20 q dead stop,
Chang pei-iun Is man Of totally
different stamp. Al once scholar and
"a man OF rare force OF character, he
has oSerted profound and mRllgn In
iluonce on his distinguished father-in-
law for some years. The implacable
foe OF the fuklenesc. he has included
Foreigners in general and the French
IN particular within the range " his
fell and Catholic animoslW, Officially
dead this man has stood In the shadow
OF the vlce-regal throne, the steady and
unbending opponent OF every new de-
parture and the prime source OF all the
vaccinations which have added OF
dlseredltcd 1ra policy OF late years,
The Peldn Gazette, with It's usual
frankuess. sums up the case against
him thus. The Censor Tung Liuug re-
quests Tint Chang Pel-lun be sent home,
80 that he may no longer Interfere IN
public business. lie was formerly cash.
lereG because his services were bad.
Lately In the yamen OF the Vice
roy OF Chihli he has intcrfcred again
In public affairs. We hear many an
satisfactory thinRs about him and We
therefore command II Hung Chang to
send Chang Pci-lun home lie must
stay no longer" Everyone viii gympa.
thi2e with the aged vlceroy, whose
paternal affections are wounded ID
the quick by this summary decree
The serious aapect or The new situn.
tlon IS the immense possibilities II opena
up. These changes show that the anti.
IL party Il In the saddle and unmla-
tnllably mark the growing Insecurity
OF the grnnd sccrotary'a tenure OF office.
Ii ia now an old man. plainly less re-
apCctlve OF new Ideas than formerly.
| While his intellect has hprdoucd with
age, his VIII power hns become moro
ilnecid he Is more plant in tho hands
OF his Intimate relatives and followers.
more tolerant or their follles and In.
satlate greed and less shrewd in hlr
discrimination oflimen with axes To
! grind