New-York tribune., 1910-01-23
Hakki Bey Has Manifested Warm Sympathy
for and Admiration of the United
States, Says Ex-Attaehe.

terference whatsoever by the so-called
Committee of Union and Progress. This
committee has in conjunction with Nah
moud Shefket Pacha, the generalissimo
been exercising dictatorial powers ever
since the accession to the throne of the
present Sultan, very much in the same
manner as the Military League OF
Athens has been doing with regard to
the government of Greece. That is to
say, the Committee of Union and Prog
ress, composed of Young Turk leaders,
has been making and unmaking pre-
miers and ministers. and directing the
Sultan, and even Parliament. what to
do and what not to do, without any
right or warrant beyond that which
1t had usurped. In fact, this more or
less occult and totally non-official body
had ended by monopoizing al power and
authority, without any responsibility.
bringing parliamentary government in
Turkey into ridicule and creating dis
trust not only abroad but also at home
in the much vaunted constitutional re-
forms. Thus. it has forced four grand
viziers from Office within the space of
mas compelled the Parliament to stultify
itself by repeating. almost unanimously,
a measure which ii had voted by an
equally large majority less than twenty
four hours previously.
Haiku. who has had many dealings
with the Young Turks, both prior and
subsequent to the downfall Of Sultan
Abdul Hamid and who knows them
from A to z, realized that it was hope
less for any Cabinet TO attempt to ad-
minister the government of the empire
so long as it remained subservient to
the Committee of Union and Progress,
and, valuing his reputation and his self
respect too highly to accept the role of
a mere dummy of the committee, de-
clined the Office OF Grand Vizier until
he had obtained a definite assurance
from the committee not only that it
would keep its hands off, and refrain
from all interference, but that it would
dissolve and pass out Of existence. With
regard to General Shefket Pacha. he
solved the difficulty presented by the
latter's somewhat too elastic concep-
ton OF his duties Of commander Of the
military lOTE6S u l41S IiISlIOpOlAldn
trict by appointing him to the office Of
Minister of War. in which capacity-h he
will now be subject to the orders Of the
Grand Vizier.
Hakki Bey was in a position TO make
these conditions, for he has an inde-
pendent fortune inherited instead of
dishonesty acquired, and enjoys so
much credit in the various European
capitals and in his own country that the
Committee Of Union and Progress re-
allied that his presence at the head Of
the government was Indispensable in or
der to restore waning confidence in
Turkeys constitutional regime. More
over. they felt that their period of use
fulness had come TO an end: that not
only were they in danger of forfeiting all
the good will which they had won by
their successful management of the
revolution that brought to a close the
nefarious tyranny of Abdul Han1id, but
that they were in fair way to incur
popular detestation by a despCtisn, or.
most as high-handed as that which they
had abolished. Finally, they felt con-
vinced Of the absolute loyalty of Haiku