Evening star., 1913-10-19
YUAN, PRBSlDEuT, 10000 YEAR-!'

The Picking dispatches announce the
election on the 9Th instant Of Yuan Shih
Kai as president OF the
Election Chinese republic for the
.ev. term Of FIVE years On the
Va 9th President Wilson sent
q congratuiafory message expressing hope
and expectation that. guided by principles
OF right and Justice. Yuan's administra-
ton would prove a success. We also Of
fer conventional congratulations OF 40
go yearsr'
Other dispatches mention the details OF
the Inauguration on the 10Th instant One
of these casts dark shadow on the cere-
monies. a man was captured Ia the
act Of attempting to assassinate Yuan az
the moment OF his takins the oath. The
incident Is considered the more grave
that the would-be assassin was an off,
cial, the chief Of the Peling mounted
police.
Stili another dispatch OF the same date
casts q shadow on the inaugural cere-
mony. for the Toxic government demand
ed that the newly elected president should
dismiss 0en. Chang Hsun. commander
in-CIiIcI VI tue EOFofnkneOt Troops al Nafi-
king. The demand was based upon the
killing OF japanese during the recent mill
tary operations there. The Peking gov.
ernment promised compliance but asked
for delay lowing to its inability TO en-
force the dismissal at the present, II II
were decreed." In other words. dis.
missal might mean that Gen. Chang
Hsun might raise the standard OF revol'
against Yuan.
There appears to have been AN upris'
t.. - ~ MI
and Kwantung. The details Of the re
volt are not clear and he whole affaii
seems mysterious. The dispatches o
July % reported some looting at Shang
hal, that rebel forces In the Yangtss
valley were falling back,'' and. finally
Tang Yao. after a conference. had pro
posed peace negotiations to President
Yuan Shih Kai.
From other sources Il appears that ur
to July of this year DR.. Sun Yat Ser
was occupying the post Of director gen.
Corporation. The uprising in Shanghai
and the Yangtse valley occurred about
the 18th OF the same month. led by Gen
Huang Hsing. July "a. according to the
Daily Telegraph. martial law was pro-
claimed in Peking. And it adds: "rhe
war news is banning. but fore gn mill
tary experts now believe the southerners
are in far greater strength than has been
supposed"
1t appears that DIR. sun Vat Sen. out
ragged by the murder Of Gen. Sung de-
cided to lend aid to the
The Revolt revolt to drive Yuan from
~ n. Gu, power. In his manifesto
VI Or' 0un. of July Il, 1913, he re-
calls that although elected president 10y
the representatives of seventeen prov
inces. ne had recommended Yuan Shih
Kai because Yuan had agreed TO join the
republic. He had been reproached foi
doing this. but he did it that peace Nigh,
follow. The assassination OF Sung was
proof OF Yuans wickedness and un-
less he should retire, DR.. Sun would
follow the people until he was deposed.
= Little more than this is known OF what
is termed q revolution. A dispatch
dated Tacoma. Wash. recently apnounc-
ed that Yuan had offered rewards for
the heads OF long list Of rebels. For
one Of these Yuan would pay as high as
$50 COO Dr.. Sun Vat Sens name is al
the foot OF the list and for his head
Yuan would pay the modest sum Of $50.
Ridtcule Of this nature is cheap
especially whent emanating from Yuan
who has been the target of much rid cule
himself, and. notably. when he failed to
take the field In 1912, at the head of his
much-vaunted legions to support a move
ment against Nanking, alleging sore
leg"
Dr.. Sun Yat Sen for fact set up revo-
luton in China in 1912, for the prime pal
purpose Of oyerthrowing the Manchu. and
It Is indisputabie that he accomplished
that purpose despite the covert .oprosi-
<.f Vrao hi n Nv g OH. SC
therefore not one Of commission, hut
rather Of omission. He omitted to take
heed OF the warning given him at tn
time OF his election IS provisional presi-
dent Of China. December 25. 1911.
The provisional president was warned
by sincere friends to beware Of Yuan
Shih kai and his companion, Tang Shao
VI. He should not delay sn instant the
march upon Peking, which was the key.
political and military, of the situation. If
he lacked money he would find IL In the
gold boarded by the Manchu mandarins
in the Forbidden City. treasure to which
both Yuan and Tang had access and vino
would use 1t abundantly to corrupt the
republican leaders. DIR. Sun dallied and
Yuan had ample time, guided by the dip
lomatic Tang. to make himself strong
with the diplomatic corps at Peking
y \
LII. cuu, liloEtoNci, Ludy point 10 tut
fifty revolutions that Cinnamon have in
augurated during the
Numerous 2ss years of Manchu
n.. misrule, all of them
'"A"''~e' having for object the
overthrow of the Manchu. In the list
place should be given the rebellion Of the
Taepings and the Boxers. both Of which,
ostensibly, directed against the foreigners,
were nevertheless composed Of Chinese
opposed to the hated Manchu.
Dr.. Suns revolt against the Manchu
was the fiftieth. His critics who forget
the main object OF that revolt choose to
ignore the fact that from the first to the
last of the Chinese struggle against the
Manchu Yuan, the Chinaman, WAS hos
tile to the Chinese and would have per-
petuated the Manchu rule to which he
had kow-towed. and was always the
humble and obedient servant.
The North China Daily News mentions
the peace negotiations' which We're held
in Shanghai in 1912 between Tang Shao
vi for Yuan and DR.. Wu Ting-fang for
DR.. Sun, and writes:
"Jt would appear that the two peace
understood each other Well
enough MIR. Tang's sympathics with
the revolution were SO much an open
-, his roSipuaf of the most Of