The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-15
JAPANESE TROUBLE
SAID TO Be GRAVE
POLITICAL FACTIONS AND LEA-.
EMS CREATE SERIOUS Els
AFFE cTioNs.
PLOT TO AScASslNlTE
Emperor of corea and Family BY
Twenty -Four Men Found Con.
csaIcd--contect For Premier
Di.tor Between Rivals.

Toxic, July 1f--That the ntesca
japanese cabinet Is On a yerF slalf,
ground cvershndy in close toncl Wit
Pol lcal affairs seems TO believe Il
tEad q pretty hard tine put ing taroual
tthe last session OF the diet without
meeting signal defeat The govern
men managed to get most of its In
trcrtant measures through the 1--we
hause, but its victory in the matter o
the Gun abolition bill was tainted
~ open charges of corruption of mem
Ihers by direct payment of money.
since those disclosures it has been
/ generally felt that the minis RVS life
mrst necessarily be hort and to
thls feeling may be attributed the
recent play for advantage made br
Count OlJuma and his party.
Nohdv believes that Count Okuma
even in the even of q change pYec.pi
Itated by hia agitation, wo Id lie cali
LED uron to form a cablAet His day
Iis past, at least SO flr as Office holdne
y concerned. He may AMI probably
Will. continue to make good dcal If
trouble fer any man or set Of mon L
whom the rcins of government may bo
entrusted, for he Is a persistent trnu
hic maker, but wi h this difference
tho weakness of parties here gives tho
individual agita;or q far hotter oppar
unity than y possessed by the recoq
nized leader of a hopeless minority +
Agerica.
admiral Baron Yama noto and Gea
Terauchl, the men mos prominentl.
mentioned in connection with the pre-
miership in case there is an earl,
change belong to the Yamagata Kat
iHra faction. Both are good men.
Rack III tnefll, however, looms the fig
IRE Of Count KatsEra himself He is
bidlng his time.
II the conditions should seem auspi
cions at the time Of the expected
change. he will manage to have the
lightning STRIFE him instead of either
of his lieutenants.
With Marquis Ito kept busy In Ko
rea the Yamagata crowd is at presen
closest to the court. 1t may be that
conditions will be sgch as to make
for Count Katsura to come
u the front at once, but every polltica
portent points to the inevitability tha
in the not far future he will again
reach the goal OF his ambition.
Japanese politics presents many di
visions and many contradictions. Wav
down beneath the surface there Is
what may he termed the fundamental |
division that has existed from the be |
ginning of tho Meiji era--that Is, from |
10 and Yamagata schools Of thought |
Inc former standing Off the expansion
of liberal iddas and for party govern
nent. the latter for the domination of |
he executive power But on top Of
his. in another stratum. as 1t were
ire found the several political parties
md a number Of smaller groups In
constant struggle for parliamentary
control
The more prominent of these parties
re the Seiyu-Kai and the ShimpoTo
II common parlance. these become by
translation the liberals, or oonstitu-
ionalisis. and the progressists. But
. far as name goes, there is by no
means as great difference as this Eng
ish translation might indicate, "Con
and "true eonstltrtion
lists" may be a more literal transla
ion, and as for principles there is
bout the same degree Of difference a.
e,ween our Democrats and Jefferson
an Democrats, each claiming the truer
aiih
In the present parliament the SeiyT-
lai Is credited with 149 seats and the
with &C. This Is in the
over house where he divisions are
pon p. litical lines. which is not the
ase in the house OF peers. The house
( representatives has membership
Z 397 Next after the Seiyu-Kai and
be Shimpo- To comes the Daido (un-
1nl Club. with as members. and taen
he seiko Club with Sc. Twenty inde-
endents. who do not affiliate with
ny of these groups. complete the roll
( membership.