Peking, Aug. 98.
The Tsao Kun members of Parliament who are not of the Tientsin persuasion profess to be thoroughly disgusted with the mismanagement of the presidential candidate's campaign by Wu Ching-lien and the Tientsin leaders. A stout Chihli member yesterday called on the writer to register the opinion that Kao Ling-wei might have made a good hsien magistrate if he had confined himself to that field and he might not, but he was certainly a terrible misfit in the rofe of a political leader. He said that Ching-lien was always known to be slippery and terribly money-hungry, but that no one ever realized until lately how downright stupid he could be. He thought Wu Vu-lin was very much an old lady, while Hsiung Ping-chi, the only one of the lot with a clear head and a definite plan, has shown himself decidedly "weak in the shoulders", which is the Chinese equivalent of "spineless."
This caller thought that the election chances were very slim, so long as the Tientsin group remained in charge of Tsao Kun's affairs, and that if Tsao were
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