Oct. 8." the leaders of the Chibli party are correct in their contention, as reported to-day by Mr. Rodney Gilbert, that members of Parliament had no other motive in voting for Marshal Tsao Kun than the purest patriotism; they have been singularly unfortunate in. their methods. Pumour has ever an "evil tongue.
But it must frankly be said that there is nothing in the records of Parliament to shake the universal belief that its sudden conversion to Tsao Kun's cause was due to bribery alone, and that it spurned his opponents' tering merely because he offered so much more
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