Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1900-08-02
WHO'S WHO IN CHINA.
The Different Parties Described by the
sf5s Leader of One of Them.

Leader of One of Them.
The following extracts fiom
memorandum prepared last autumn for
an English friend by the Chinese re-
former, Kang Yu Wei, says the London
Times, will be read with interest at the
present junoture:
I'm order properly to comprehend
the inner affairs of the Chinese EN-.
pire, the first thing needful is rightly
to distinguish the different parties in
China. The Empress Dowager holds
on to the old ways; her Iparty is known
as the Empress Party The Emperor
and his friends who desire reform are
known as the sEmperor's Party. Then
there is a third party known as the
| Middle Party, which is chiefly con-
cerned with It's own interests and daies
not interfere in politics. Nine tenths
OF the people and officials are COM
prised in this party.
| Tho Empress Dowager, notwith-
standing that she is the head OF the
ruling party, possesses few friends out
side Of official circles and the Yamens.
Otherwise her influence is small. Her
iutimates are all Manchus. Yung Lu.
appointed by her commander in chief
| Kangwei, special commissioner OF the
collection Of additional revenues from
the provinces; Primes Tuan, Yum Yu.
Bwai. ia ru. &c. The only clever man
among them is Yum Lu; the rest are
deusely ignorant and, care for nothing
but wealth and official rank OF the
high military officials, TunR Flu Slang
belongs to the Empress Patty and
Yuan .Shi-Kai. to the Elnperor's. All
the remainder may be said to belong to
the Middle Party. Thus | am right
in saying that the Empress party are
few in number, although at the
moment their power Is great.
| 'The Middle Party, on the other
hand, Is spread throughout the whole
empire. The majority are in theil
heart of hear To devoted to the Emperor,
admiring his intelligence and rectitude,
and these are alarmed and angry at the
Empress usurpation. They know how
ignorant she is and what q dissolut'
life she has led for the last 30 years
and that the weakness of China il
largely due to her misdeeds. But tn,
.. high officials are too old; they si
blinking In the twilight, not daring t
act, but leaving success or ruin t.
come, as the Emperor or the Empress
gains the upper hand.
Ruined as the Empeior's Party is
, yet they are tho real reformers, botl
officials and people, they long for re
form and new methods, but while tn
Empres5' Party holds the power the
are in dread OF severe punishment. A
the time of the coup d'etat the Empires
falsely asserted that the Emperor s.part
were planning revolt. She prohibitet
newsr spers. killed and drove out hun
: dreds OF reformers, and exiled number
: of high officials to the frontiers. 81
of the reformers executed were hig
metropolitan officials one a member c
r the Grand Council and one whom tn
+ Emperor had nominated to be Prim
: Minister; all were the Emreror's pei
$ sonal friends; they were heheade
Q without trial, while hundreds .
smaller officials and thousands of th
$ common people were prescribed. Th
l. MEASURES were carried out in order
clip the Emperor's wings. Why wei
Q all these leading men willing to ASST
ciste themselves with the reform party
The answer is that they were 10y
/ subjects, anxious to save their COUNT
;, and deserve the Emperor's benevolenc
You have only to read the Chine'
% newspapers. Ko-wen- pao. published
. Tientsin; Su-pao, published in Shan
:, hal; Chi. hsin-pao,. published at Maoa
N Ching ni-pao, published at Yokoham'
Tien .nan-pao, published at Singapo
a these are all published under foreil
d protection and so are able to spei
a the truth they one and all sympathi
Is with the party Of reform. The Japane
y newspapers all take the same Wet
ID their oi itioism is independent. ~
es Empress Dowager is licentious @
Us woman. She is not the Empeior's re
T. mother, and she had no hesitation
as deposing him 30 as to retain her pow'
x But she was wrong In taking fu
LUIS advice to depose the Emperor a
9. place the power in his tYung Lu'
ne hands. As soon as he got control
:; the northern TROOPS Yung Lu threw
p the mask and did what he willed a
ny the Empress lives in constant dread
30 treachery, on the part of her eunuchs