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= EFLS the Hustgue Motto That Sence the Best Poll
tics Borne Out by Odme MISUNDERSTANDING the CanddesSome Pct
Tom-Fanbans SpebndrCa
pagn Speeches Roosevelt and Bryan.

defeated. Grant. in 1872. made neither
campaign tour nor speeches Greeley
made seventy nine formal speeches trav-
eled 2.234 miles and lost Cleveland. in
1884. Travelled 312 miles and made three
speeches. while Blaine Travelled 4,75o
miles, made 1875 speeches and was de-
feated.
Bryan beat Blaine's record on both Of
his former campaigns, while Mckinley
stayed at home and won. Hayes and
Garfield, however both defied the hoodoo
and won out. While Hayes swung around
the circle. Tilden made no tour and only
one short speech, but there are many
who believe that he really won. From
Garfield was the only notable exception
to the rule. He travelled $500 miles and
made 81 speeches, while Hancock made
no tour and only two brief speeches.
The greatest danger of the campaign
lies in the candidate" said the late Sen
ator Barnum. The astute Mark Hanna
believed believed implicitly in this hoodoq which
Greeley and Blaine. who. before Bryans
coming. were our only presidential can
dfdates who went on big speechmaking
tours Hanna on this account kept Nc
~NsA'sSS Ct hoiAAS IA DoeAi SoshpoAohc. >oth
chairmen did their candidates in the
Roosevelt-Parker battle.
Since Parson Burchard's rum. Roman
ish and rebellion" speech In Blaines
presence lost New York to the "Plumed
Knight republican national chairmen
have required that orators speaking
formally in the presence of candidates
submit copies Of their speeches in ad-
vance and candidates also have been
required to write their formal speeches
and submit them to an advisory COM
mttteA
Now, the national chairman Is to the
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The Deacon'S Grammar.

A B. FARQUHAR of York, Pa, op-
3A' posed the minimum wage at the
Manufacturers Association convention
on the ground that he had lived well
on SIS arweek.
I'm 1857 l lived well on SO a week." Mr..
Farquhar, manufacturer. said to
reporter. Recently. taking into ac-
count the high cost of living. 1 got
through on s5-s3 for food and 81 for rent
and sundries.
They who demand a minimum wage
know as little about economical ly-
ing as the deacon knew about gram
mar.
The deacon. you know, said at .
strawberry festival at Mount Zion:
Them there Miss Joneses is thr
of as pretty a girl as ever / seem"
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the Manchus as long as he could. and.
when he saw that the thing was i'm
possible and M an a5diestion neces
After his arrival in Picking Yuan
tucked himself away in a rambling
Chinese house near the Forbidden city.
He at once took up the reins of govern
ment, but not at once did he accept the
premiership. The revolution was going
against the throne. Yuan arranged an
armistice and COMMENCED typically
Chinese negotiation with the rebels. He
sent his old friend Tang Shao-E to
Shanghai to negotiate with WI Ting
fang, Sun Vat Sen and the others. Tang
carried an imperial commission. but
when he arrived in Shanghai for the
great peace conference he apparently
laid all his cards on the table. told
the rebels that the Manchus had no
more fight left in them. There was, of
course, no thought of surrender by the
rebels of any part of their plan for a
Manchu abdication.
They got it, but not until Yuan had
negotiated good terms for the imperial
family and arranged for their de-
would save face" an exceeding
ly important thing. Also. during this
period, Yuan made his own position
secure. He would become first presi-
to Shanghai. his behavior there and
the results will ever constitute a great
Chinese mystery. At the time Yuan's
officials in Peking accused Tang of alb
solute treachery Tang's friends have
often limited to the writer prearrange-
ment of plans between Yuan and Tang.
That Yuan Shi Kai believed that
monarchy was genuinely the best thing
for China. as it certainly was, and that
he did not abandon that belief even
though he accepted the presidency, the
writer is sure. In December Of 1911
he had a long talk with Yuan. By
that time he was premier for the Man.
chus and was conducting the revolu-
ton as best he could. 1t was the first
time he had talked for publication since
coming from retirement. The inter-
viewer found a remarkable man. Most
remarkable of all were his eyes. They
were not Chinese: They were not dark;
the pupils were blush gray. His eyes
had staring appearance, and instead
of the slant SO characteristic of the
race they were round. He was short
and stocky and seemed most heavy-set
in the padded clothes which the Chinese
wear in winter He was in military
uniform as was most appropriate for
the man who raised the profession of
arms from the bottom of the Chinese
social scale to somewhere near the top.
Yuan had his residence then in the
new foreign Office, or Wai-WuPu, as it
was then called. 1t was great modern
building, surrounded by liberal grounds
and walls with great gateways. Yuan
spoke no English, except good morn
ing" good bye" and good night"
Even these phrases he had not wholly
mastered and used them indiscriminate-
ly. He spoke through an Interpreter.
a private secretary, who was educated
at Yale. His interpreters English was
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candidate as the theatrical manager
Is to the star actor. and the editor is
to the author Good discipline demands
this authority. and the only recent
candidate to break 1t was Grover
Cleveland. Almost from the first hour
of his campaign of 1884 he quarreled
with Senator German, his national
chairman. who became so angry with
the candidate that week before cleo
ton he threatened to close up the cam
paign headquarters in New York, and
was only prevented by William c.
Whitney.
Blaine was amenable to discipline and
unwillingly obeyed his campaign man man
master, who instructed the candidate
to come east and attend the ill-ad-
vfsed "Belshazzar's feast" OF fnanciers:
Quay. Harrisons manager. had hall
hired in Indianapolis. where Harrison
could address visiting delegations.
Only the candidate was allowed upon
the platform. and he would emerge
from the wings. make few remarks
and retire so suddenly that no ANA
teur politician had a chance TO utter
a tactless or laundering remark. To-
day printed copies of each candidates
formal speeches are sent to the editors
are already in type in the newspaper
composing rooms when delivered from
the hastings.
In hi. first campaign Bryan covered
10000 miles and made 500 speeches.
This record. however. was broken in
1900. when Theodore Roosevelt, candi-
date for Vice President, travelled 21.20o
miles, made s73 speeches. visited 567
towns and cities and talked to 10000 900
people. The record audience for sim
gle campaign speech was made, how
ever by william Henry Hn--'-o-,. v-No
during his cam. AGA :. ii ~
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HaIf-Hearted Reforms.

NN7 LILLIAN JENNINGS BRYAN was
Wv talking total abstinence to n
group of correspondents in Atlantic City
Total abstinence" he said. lis the
only cure for excessive drinking. Mild
er cures end UP like Smiths.
Smith could never pass the village
tavern without stopping in. One night,
however he determined to go home sober.
1t was a hard job for him to pass the
tavern, but he managed 1t. saying to
himself as he hurried by:
" Stand firm, Resolution. Stand
firm
Thus he gained his home street. He
halted there and said:
by lingo, Resolution, you stood
firm splendidly, and for that reason I'll
go back and treat you"
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mpaign Spebinders Censored 10y the National

we were in those good old days"
when men actually killed one another
in disputes as to whether Andrew Jack
sons martyred wife smoked a pipe or
not. Yet, now and then some modern
stumper forgets himself and hurls ar
undignified epithet at his opponents
head, as when. on the eve of his re-
election in 1904. President Roosevelt.
answering Judge Parker's charge that
the republicans had levied blackmail
on the trusts, branded Parker's ac-
cusation as slanderous," "monstrous,"
and "unqualifledly and atrociously
false and "a wick ed falsehood
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OFFICE DECORATED FIvE-COLORED
INAUGURATION

low jacket Of the Manchus, a badge of
Manchu title and distinction, a symbol
of his loyalty to the throne.
He became premier of the Manchu
government and entered upon a long
and hazardous task which ended in his
becoming the first president of China.
and now in his death. Some people
think that Yuan intrigued from the be-
ginning. that even before he came
north" he had been in consultation with
the rebels and that his whole scheme
Of action, despite its appearance of be-
ing vigorous fight for the preserva-
ton Of the throne, was merely a gigan-
tic bluff, and that Yuan was in the plot
all the time, aiming to capture the
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works of reform and his creation Of
a modern army for China, need no rep
etition. 1t was great work and up
to 1908 he had built lasting monu-
ment for himself.
Then, through one of those oriental
intrigues. the Manchus dismissed him
with ignominy. He was informed in a
delightful Chinese way that on &C
count of his ailing foot his services
were no longer required. So far as he
was aware there was nothing wrong
with his foot. But into retirement he
had to go and he returned to his home
in the province OF Honan. The Man
chus doubtless thought they were get
ting along well enough without him
during those three years of retirement,
but in truth their power was crumbling
and it was little they did in their de-
generacy to retain 1t. Had Yuan Shi
Kai been kept in a position of power
instead of being dismissed Chinese his
tory would not read as 1t does. He
would have instituted many Of the re-
forms that the revolutionaries later de-
manded and on which they based their
successful revolution. He might not
have satisfied the radicals. but he would
have pleased the conservative element
which proved of so much value to those
holding ultra-advanced ideas and thus
robbed the revolutionaries of strong
support.
Also, he would have developed the
imperial army to a point Of power that
ton almost impossible. He would have
given China that gradual moderniza-
ton which would have been it's saliva
ton.
1t Yuan has now been assassinated
his assassins must at least be recog-
nized as Skillful. Yuan, who was
brave man, did not fear death, but he
invariably took good care OF himself
When he arrived in Picking on that
autumn day the writer got his first
glimpse of the precautionary methods.
Yuan had been asked seven times by
the throne to come to Pekfng. Time
after time he refused. pleading, in the
Chinese way, ineffciency, and profess
ing great humility and inferiority. All
the time. in the same Chinese way, he
was really bartering for terms and
powers. Finally he came.
First came a trainload Of modern
soldiers with uniforms after the Euro
pean fashion: well trained. too. and fine
looking men. They swarmed from the
railway carriages. lined the platforms
and. in general, covered the situation
strategically. They were Yuans own
Honanese, every man personally loyal
to him, and l have no doubt that these
same chaps were outside his palace
when he died.
That trainload was merely the ad-
vance guard. Later came Yuan's own
train. More troops poured forth and
men in strictly Chinese dress. brilliant
in color, and with broad Chinese hats
with feathers. They had pixies and
spears and bows and arrows. They
Yuan himself Princes OF the Manchus
were waiting for their savior and Yuan
came forth There was a thrill, for,
behold. Yuan Shi Kai wore the yell
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of nerves. The Inauguration came a
few days later. number of foreigners
were there and many Chinese. The
place was infested with soldiers with
heavily guarded. No one knew pre-
cisely what was going to happen and
once when some one set off lot of
firecrackers in celebration of the event
However. nothing really did happen
and Yuan entered upon the presidency.
Yuan took this great office, but never
did he believe in it. In the course
December, 1911. he said that a consti-
tutional monarchy was the only thing
for China. He didn't accept the re-
public because he wanted ii, not be-
cause he thought 1T was the best thing.
but simply because the Manchus were
too weak to hold on. Had the Manchus
had more courage they might have re-
manned in power, but with great con-
cessions in the direction Of consttu-
tional government. Their imperial
army was the strongest. When the
second revolution came in 1913 Yuan,
with the same troops as the Manchus
had, gave the rebels a sound whipping.
Yuan was ruthless in many ways. He
believed in the looping of Of heads
which contained evil thoughts and he
directed many executions without the
slightest conjunction. He was I'M
doubtedly cognizant of the facts con-
corning the murder in Shanghai OF
noted southern leader named Sung
Chiao-jen Sung was shot as he was
about to start on mission to Picking.
That murder started the southerners
on their revolt of 1918, which failed.
In January, 1912, an attempt was
made to assassinate Yuan He had
been to see the empress dowager TO
discuss abdIcation. The streets were
lined with troops. as was the custom
when Yuan went abroad. Around his
carriage was a troop Of cavalry. FROM
a tea shop on certain corner there
came flying two bombs. thrown over
the heads of the fringe of soldiers on
the curb. One exploded in the midst
of lYuan's mounted escort The otner
fell in the roadway and did not go on
There was panic for moment. yuan
..mafoo," or driver. whipped up his
horses and dashed down the ROAD on
the run. Yuan's attitude showed MS
courage. DR.. Morrison. the Engiisn
government saw Yuan a few seconds
after the explosion. He said that yuan
was absolutely unconcerned and sat IN
his carriage putting away on cigar
cite.
Yuan Shi Kai was a Chinese; that
accounted for many of the things ne.
did which seemed cruel to foreigners.
for he dealt with his own people in
Chinese fashion. as was BETTING, and
Chinese methods are sometimes more
harsh than western methods. In any
case Yuan Shi Kai was China's strong
est man. There are many who object
to his methods and consider that he
was out for personal gain, but that in
strength of character he outclassed all
other leaders there can be no doubt 1t,
is hard to see how China will get along
without him. Certainly his death opens
up a golden opportunity for the land
grabbers and they are already taking
advantage of it For Japan, Yuans
death is a good thing. Their greatest
and only powerful opponent IN China
is at last out of the way.
Copyright. 1915, by Curtis Brown.)
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made from Ave to fifteen speeches a
day, besides one long speech each even
ing. He kept this up for six weeks
without missing an appointment or a
railroad connection. Mr.. Bryan on one
of his tours in the previous campaign
made in one day sixteen speeches be-
tween an and IL pm. while travel
ing from Quincy to Joliet. ILL.,
Both campaign managers will this
year be on the lookout to prevent
vituperation from the hustings. Few
candidates, however. have escaped this
sort of weapon in past campaigns
George Washington. during one of his
campaigns. was charged with being a
thief and a murderer. and a New York
newspaper accused him of overdrawing
his presidential salary.
Lincoln was. when he ran for re-
election in 1864. represented by the OPP
position as buffoon. a libertine in
speech while id,ss1 Mcclellan c was called ana
traitor" Grant was branded as nepo-
fist and confirmed drunkard. who had
turned the White House into a dive.
while Tilden was called a railroad
thieves" and Hayes was accused of
buying his seat with pledges of i'm
munity to the Ku-Klux Khan. Garfield
was flayed as crooked lobbyist. Han
cock as the tool Of Tammany" and
Cleveland as a hater of Irishmen and
Catholics, who had engaged in crooked
land speculations. Bryan in ms carrier
campaigns was called an anarchist" and
Mckinley an emperor" and so IT has
gone from the first.
One of the strangest campaign SIAN
ders of the earlier days was that circu-
lated in 1928 against Jackson by Seba
Smith, a humorous writer of that time.
He accused old Hickory of being so IL
literate that he employed 20. K" as an
abbreviation for "Oil Korrect," jack
sons partisans, not taking the trouble
to deny the charge. adopted the letters
rallying cry.
One of the calumnies that helped de-
feat Van Buren, in his campaign against
Harrison was that his son John, who
had been presented at the English
court, was going to marry the young
Queen Victoria. They were caricatured
as dancing together. and young Van
Buren, was contemptuously alluded to
as Prince John" which chung to him
long as he lived. Happily. we have
become more polite in our politics than
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WITH CALHOUN, FORMERLY o

North Manchuria. Japan claims a
sphere of influence" in Inner Mongolia.
Russia has virtual protectorate over
Mongolia and claims sphere in west
ern China" Under British protection
Tibet has become Independent.
Yuan Shi Kai stood in the path Of
further partition. particularly in that
tanning domination in China. He was
the strong man of the nation, and there
is no one to take his place. Lii Yuan
hung. the vice president. support for
whom was urged by Yuan on his death
bed. cannot do it. He is despised by
the powerful revolutionaries Of the
south. Nor can the dreamer, Sun Vat
Sen, nor his more powerful followers
like Whang Hsing, Tsai 40 and the
rest. China. with her many languages,
her vast provinces that are almost
of all. with no symbol of authority in
Peking to obey and to revere, cannot
hold together. The place becomes q
breeding ground for revolution.
tainly. one revolution will follow an
other. And every revolt will give the
1and-grabbers a chance. Outside inter
ests will even foment revolution and
l
will do anything to keep China from
becoming strong. The Chinese have
great pride of race. but not of nation.
They. at least the common people. are
be loyal and to venerate. The foreign
educated man, the Young China" ele-
ment, has an intense national feeling,
but the bulk of the population have
them to be patriotic about So they
will go this way and that, led into
strife by politicians and self-seekers,
and by patriots in the hands Of poll
ticians.
1t will come to pass that foreign in
tervention will be necessary. In the
east the meaning of that is so clear
that it is merely formula, in such
logical sequence does one thing fol-
interests comes first. then a sphere of
influence" then Intervention for the
protection of foreign lives and prop
erty." military occupation and finally
ownership. China is headed that way
now, of that there can be no doubt.
1t is an important feature of the situa-
ton that the only nation in the world
that during the great war can ef-
fectively intervene in China Is Japan.
out there now.
Nippon is losing no chances. She
takes every opportunity to nail down
her hold on China, even at the expense
In many important respects she has
ruthless1y transgressed upon the rights
of others. When this war is over there
will be a reckoning and the center OF
interest in the entire world will be
transferred from Europe to the far
east 1t is inevitable and in it's big
ness the situation is even now trans
cended only by the European war.
~
The writer first saw Yuan shi Kai
in November Of 1911. few weeks after
the outbreak of the ever-going revolu-
ton against the Manchus which was
to turn the worlds oldest monarchy
into its newest republic. Yuan had
not been in Picking for three years.
His career before, what he did in Korea,
his part in saving the nation when 1t
Wal fhre afened In Boxer tina his great
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throne, or. il he could not get that. the
presidency. for himself But Yuan
Shi Kai was loyal to his Manchu mas
tiers and he tried to save them. He may
have cooled toward them, for they be-
haved badly. particularly in the matter
of money with which to pay the troops
They saw themselves lettering and they
refused to disgorge a sufficient portion
of their vast hidden wealth to enable
Yuan to carry on. Strange things hap
pened. which people who were there
are fond of discussing and wondering
about, but for all the deceit, chicanery,
trickery. lying and intriguing that
went on the writer believes firmly that
Yuan Shi Kai played the game for
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1aultleSS, save Tor occasional excur-
sions into up-to-date American slang
The great man of China proved a
genial person and seemed to enjoy be-
ing interviewed. He was cautious, how
ever, and when he didn't want to an
swer a question he simply didn't dc
inquiries, which was easy when speak
ing through an Interpreter. He had
plenty of time to think and dodge.
The writer saw Yuan Shi Kai several
times. Once he went to his yamen to
take his photograph, the first he had had
taken in years. The town photographer
of Picking. or at least the foreign part
of Picking, an American of fifty years
or so and very wide experience, had re-
Gently returned from a sojourn in the
viction for bigamy. He was of nervous
temperament and with none of the
nerve and verve of the professional
newspaper photographer in America
After waiting for some time for Yuan
to be blessed by the lame priests OF
yellow robes. we were taken into Yuan's
presence. The valiant photographer
lugged in his paraphernalia. Yuan's
secretary presented us to the premier
hand in true western style, thing he
had but recently picked up. He said
something in Chinese to each of US
The agitated photographer grasped
China's greatest man by the hand and
thinking that some remark from him
was needed. effusively declared:
why, how do you do / am very glad
to meet you; I have heard lots about
YOU
Had Yuan understood he would Ger.
tainly have been amused. Yuan posed
all we liked. surrounded by his Off
GERS. But only one of the pictures
really turned out well. owing to the
Photographers nervous temperament
In the same building the writer at
tended Yuan's inauguration as the first
president of China. 1t was a rather
tense occasion, despite the fact that it
freedom. Shortly before, the imperial
troops in Picking had mutinied. For
nearly three days they had possession
of the town. shooting. burning and
looting. That mutiny. too, is Chinese
mystery: no one knows just why it
happened At the time the rebels were
demanding that Yuan proceed south to
take the oath of Office. Yuan said that
he would, but every one knew that he
would not if he could get out of it.
Then came the mutiny, and, of course,
it was pleaded that Yuan could not
safely leave Picking. for he was the
only man who could keep order. Per-
haps Yuan instigated the mutiny. Ger
tain 1t is that his troops made the
trouble and the courtyard of his great
building was filled with loot. This
mutiny. incidentally, was put down in a
manner typically Yuan's. 1t had gone
on for more than two days and the
foreign legations demanded that it stop.
Yuan sent forth an old general of his.
a real old-time soldier, named Chang
kwei-ti. Chang, a patriarch of great
height and breadth with a long, flow
ing beard that gave him most benev-
client appearance, set forth in small
carriage, being too big for Chinese
pony. He was accompanied by a few
soldiers and two executioners with
their great knives. He toured Peking
and left behind a long trail of head
less bodies. The looting thereupon came
to an end.
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Will Partition Of China Follow Death Of Yuan

NJ Take Place Cm MaOne Revolt Expected Follow Another
Yuan ObacFa Eastern Situation Will Be
the Wn With YanA Chinese With Blue EyesRess Dealing
With His Enemies-An Attempt Assassination
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BY JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.

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