The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-07
PARTIES In CHINA
Interesting FaetS from q Noted
Chinese Leader.
snHeF Affairs of the BaybAyisH Ezs-
Dire Communicated ky OHe 0f
ahe Kingdoms Pre-
Gressive Men.

The following extracts from q mem
orandum prepared last autumn for an
English friend by the Chinese reform
CT. Rang Yu Wei. win be read with
interest at the present iuncture. says
the London Times.
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 party 10
known as the empress party The
emperor and his friends who desire
reform are known an the 'emperor's
party Then there is third party.
known as the middle party which ia
chiefly concerned with its own in
terests and dares not interfere in
politics. Kine-tenths of the people
and officials are comprised in this
party.
"The empress dowager, notwith-
standing that abe is the head of the
ruling party, possesses few or no
friends outside OF official circles and
the Yamens. Otherwise her influence
is small. Her intimates are all Man
ehus. Yung Lu, appointed by her
commander in chief; Kangwei, special
commissioner for the collection Of ad-
ditional revenues from the provinces;
Prince Tuan. Yum Yu, Bwai-ta-pu. etc.
The only clever man among them is
.Yung In; the rest are densely igno-
rant and care for nothing but wealth
and official rank. OF the high mill
tary ofscials. ung-Fu-Siang belongs
60 the empress party and Yuan-Shi-
Kai TO the empcror's. All the ro-
nainder 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 mo
nent their power is great.
'"The middle party, on the other
Aand. 10 spread throughout the whole
smpire. The majority are in thsir
Aeart of hearts devoted to the en-
Peror. sdmiring his intelligence and
<ectitude. and these are alarmed and
angry at the empress usurpation.
They know how ignorant abe is- and
what dissolute life she has led for
the last 30 years. and that the weak
ness Of China is largely due 20 her
nisdeeds But the high officials arc
coo old: they sit blinking in the twi-
kght. not daring 70 act. but leaving
success or ruin TO come. as the en-
peror or the empress gains the npper
hand.
At the time Of the coup d'etat the
empress falsely asserted that the en-
Peror's party was planning revolt.
Ehe prohibited newspapers. killed and
drove out hundreds Of reformers and
exiled numbers of high officials to the
frontiers. Six of the reformers ex-
ecuted were high metropoIita5 off,
cials. one a member OF the grand
council and one whom the emperor
had nominated to be prime minister:
all were the emperor's personal
friends: they were beheaded without
trial. while hundreds OF smaller Of
6cials and thousands OF he common
people were prescribed. rhese meae-
ures were carried out in der to clip
the emperor's wings. Whv were all
these leading men willing 10 associ-
ate themselves with the reform par
ty7 The answer Is that they were
asyal subjects. anxious TO eave their
country and deserve the emperor's
Aenevolence. You have only 10 rosd
AAe Chinese newspapers Yo-wcn-pao,
esbiished in Tientsin: Su-pao. pub
1shed in Shanghai; Chi-hsin-pao. pub
1shed in Macao; Ching g-ni-pao. pub
kshed at Yokohama; Tien-nan-pso,
published 1T Singapore-tb these are All
8ublished under foreign protection
and no are able to speak the truth;
they one and all sympathi1e with the
nArty Of reform. The Japanese news
paperu al take the same view; their
-sriticisn is independent. The en-