The various parties to the prospective struggle for power here, with the exception of Feng Yihsiang, and junior men without that standing in Chinese officialdom which is described by the untrans-Jateable term "ts'-d-ko" and without the highly organized bodies of little followers whom every veteran official relies upon to boost him up the official ladder rung by rung. These men have nothing to adver-rise as titles to office and power except their devotion to that party and those principles which Borodin and his associates created for Dr. Sun when the Kuomintang was on the verge of dissolution. This en-{tails manifest adherence to all the forms foreignism and all the absurdities in internal administration which Dr. Sun was brought to endorse in his San Min Chui and which were written into. the allegedly post-
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