"Tf," said the Loyang leader, "their aims were high and good and their hearts were clean and bright, they would be given a chance to carry out the affairs of the country, There was no reason why they should be barred. But now we hear that they are uniting with the province in question in stirring up bandits and tufei in various parts of the country. Men have been arrested with evidence in their possession who have admitted they were working for the Anfu party and the provincial authorities in question. The matter cannot be kept secret. 7 "Then again, they attempted to interfere with the presidential elections by bribing M. P.'s, but as this is done everywhere we have taken no notice of it. Some of them have sold their homes and their properties in order to give money to such a cause, and money has also been obtained from Fengtien for the same purpose. Men who handled the money included Fu Liang-tso and Vu Tsen, who themselves secured the money with which it was intended to buy the M.P.'s. They distributed it as they pleased with the result that their squeeze became known and fights resulted. It is dirty work... I do not care about the Anfu party but I am sorry about Marshal Tuan for he has allowed himself to be pulled about in all directions by unscrupulous Anfu men who have borrowed his name and are using it for all forms of unscrupulous roguery. Tuan is loyal and too straight, and he Governor Han and the British thinks his Anfu associates are also straight, hence he does not know that he is being fooled."
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