That there's many a slip twixt cup and lip is an adage which the extremists among Marshal Tsao Kun's followers might well remember, in their latest plot to make him President, with Chang Tso-lin as Vice-President, which Mr. Rodney Gilbert describes today. Their first hopes of rushing. him in, after rushing Li Yuan-hung out were frustrated. Their next wicked design to promote a mutiny in Peking in order to have an excuse for bringing Tsao in to crush it failed because he forbade it. To do Marshal Tsao Kun justice he is, we believe, a humane man who has no stomach for wading to the Presidency through rivers of blood and is far from relishing his supporters' plots. And for this reason it may be that the latest conspiracy also will come to naught, because Wu Pei-fu, though a failure as a politician, is a brave soldier and would certainly not turn tail before the threatened Tientsin-Fengtien alliance..If Mr. Rodney Gilbert's informants are right in their prognostications, the position is one of which the Diplomatic Body appear bound to take notice. No one, we imagine, would object to Marshal Tsao
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