Four Candidates Now in the Field and All Anxious for Office Four contenders now siond out strongly for the presidency, these being Marshal Tsao Kun, Gen. Li Yuan-hung, Dr. Sun Yat-sen and Mr. Hsu Shih-chang.
The Cantonese organizations continue to urge Dr. Sun once more to assume the presidency and we understand that the southern leader is seriously considering taking such a step.
The Tientsin party have threatened, in case the Anfu party persists in its opposition to Marshal Tsao Kun, to bring Mr. Hsu Shih-chang out of retirement and instal him once more in the presidential chair. By doing this, they state, the Anfu party, who elected Hsu president in 1919, will have no cause for complaint, and they cannot complain. As with Yuan-hung, Hsu Shih-chang has, ever since his removal from the Presidency a year ago, been intriguing to regain his lost position,
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