Meanwhile, as if to tear away the bred of their self-respect, th:
are full of the Hupei, After the face of the elections of three weeks ago, it was decided that the elections must repeated in each hsien. First of all, the date was fixed for October 1. Then, owing to the distance of some of the counties, the date was postponed tothe 8th, and now has beer again postponed to the 12th. Meanwhile the elected dele-rates from a good number of the counties axe already in Wu-Han, and having a good time at the theatres, the delegates it will be their duty to elect a limited number to the People's Conference in Peking.
They have already met together a Hankow hotel, and fixed the price of a vote at $4,500. In fact, the whole affair ix simply regarded as a matier of sale and barter. The county delegates pay for their deletion at _home, and then com to Wachang in order to sell thi vote to the highest bidder. Thes> their turn will go to Peking in the confident expectation of reeouping: theniselves out of their squeeze at the People's Conference, To crown all, it iv reported in the city that the names of the delegates have been actually fixed by the local authorities before the elections are allowed to take place, 7 Anfaites are to have six men, another political clique (mown as the Shih Li P'ei or Realist Party) five, the army four, the Provincial Assembly two—and the people none at alli Kuomintang were waiting at the China Merchants hulk to receive them. Yesterday, they were escorted over to Wuchang, where they *8ln fairness to Mr, San Fo we must say that he is still in Shanghai and hag not left here for sever= a) weeks.—Et
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