There has been much talk here lately of an organization the militarists and the Tientsin politicians to eliminate Wu Pei-fu. The local press, both Chinese and foreign, has been making much of this as though it were news. Anyone who has followed Chinese affairs for the past five years knows that there is no leader in the Chibli party who has not been praying for Wu Pei-fu's downfall from. the time that he first emerged from Hunan and obscurity. The Loyang. chief has his shortcomings, qualities which vast majority of his official contemporaries in this country and which sometimes threaten to carry him into position "of supreme centralized authority. The establish tent of any man in a position of supreme centralized authority in China would ill suit the purpose of the vast horde of persons who wear titles and medals in the name of the unhappy Republic. When Dr. Sun Yat-sen's death was rumoured throughout the North, the first idea that popped into every official mind was that Wu Pei-fu was master of China; and so it happens that the strenuous anti- Wu propaganda which has been filling the papers came immediately on the heels of the report of Dr. Sun's demise.
The reported "movement against Wa Pei-fu is not so much an ant Wa movement as itis an ant master movement. The politicians do not want-a boss. The militarists donot want 2 commander-in-chief. [None of them wants. reunifica™ fiom. if, xeumifieation'- means"! any-
1 like Government. 'There only one high political figure in all China who is willing to see Wa Pei-fu in supreme command, and this is because he is absolutely' sure that no matter how high Wu rises he will always be one grade higher. This person is President Tsao Kun, It is for this same good reason that, while the President allows his relatives and subordinates to play about and arose themselves and make great profit out of the istration of public affairs, when Wu Peisfu awakes and takes interest in some particular situation and says "Nol", President Tsao Kun ignores the relatives and servants who farm him and echoes most decided "No!"
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