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I. 1 It ' ALE )(Jc.i To make room for our Ne w, Spring Good men's, Boys'. Misses' and C hildren's Shoes at we are asking for them. Whether you need have to offer, One lot of MEN'S SHOES in Black Calf, Vici Kid and Tan Calf. Walkover, i Douglass, Hazzard. Burt & Packards, etc $4.98 .One lot Men's Dress Shoes in black and tan, all sizes $3.75 - One lot Men's Good Work' Shoes, Dress Shoes and Scout Shoes $2.98 Special Reductions ATTENTION! The THE Below the Postoffice fCALaction must be taken to oust Yuan e pE ,.'[Shih-kai from Peking, though - they t met much opposition from the more t conservative elements of their group. o The Chinputang may be called the I conservative- progressive party. It was u By Han Liang Huang. formed out of a consolidation of three Political parties in China are simi- parties, the 'epublican party, the lar to those of England Anid America Union party, and the Progressive par- C rather than those of continental Eu- ty. After the dissolution of parlia- t rope. Instead of a multiplicity of par- ment in 1913 it broke .up into factions ' ties, the tendency in China has been one of which was in favor of Yuan r toward the development of two or Shih-kai's monarchical movement t three predo iinant parties. It is true and the other opposed to it. Among that at one time there was a large those who opposed the movement were 0 number of parties in China, but they Tuan Chi-jui, then chief of the gen- 0 have long been consolidated, and it is oral staff, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, and Tsai E not likely that these large >arties, Ao, who afterwards escaped from Pe- a which have grown up out of th iecon- jking and became the hero of the Yui solidation of the minor parties, wil lhe nan revolution of 1915. Both Tsai Ao e split up again. and Liang Ch'-ch'ao became very ac Roughly speaking, therc are at tivo in the movement to thwart the present three parties in China; the monarchical attempt or Yuan Shi-kai Kuomimtang, (Citizens' Party); the Iagainst whom the Kuon~ intang and Chimputang (Progressive Party); and Ithis group of the Chmnp tang joined ~ the Peiyangpai, (Group of North Chi- hands. Realizing the futility of his na). Just as in western nations there ambition, however, Yuan Shih-kai are usually all shades of opinion wvith- Isought t opacify the people by the or mn a single party, so it is in China, a Igail zation of the "responsible cabi- t fact which must be borne in mind in1 net"' under the laesi fTa any discussion of the subject. Chi-jui- ledrhpbfTa The Kuomnintang is, in the main, an Li Yuan-hung, Yuan's successorC outgrowth of the Tongmmntang claimed to be a man of no party. He I (League of Sworn Members), or the retanied Tuan Chi-jui's ciabinet with- s revolutionist party wvhfeh wais organ- out any substantial change. But the t ized by D~r. Sun Yat-sen and his as- parliament, dissolved by Yuan Shih- n sociates many years .ago. Whatever kai, and now recalled, was dlominated t may be its shortcomings, this party b ly the Kuomnintang. The 01(d struggle il dleserves the gratitude of every. Chi- was then resumed, wvith the difference t nese, for it was dlue to the persistent that whereas under Yuan Shih-kai it a efforts and couragous work .of the qwas a stugebtenthe Kuomin Olnintang that th revolution of tang and the monarchically-inclined bi 1911 was brought about which sue- faction of the Chinputang, nowv it was a c-ceded in overthrowing the Manchu between the Kuomintang and the re- e .regime and created the Republic. publican faction of the Chinputang. P It will 1)e recalled that before the TFhe war question brought tihis e .Manchu emperor abdicated in lebru- struggle to an issue. The note of 0 uiry, 1912, a Provisional Parliament President Wilson inviting the neutrals c was organized in Nankmag by the rev- to join in (declaring wvar against Ger- g olutionists. It is natural that the rev- many caused a deadlock, the cabinet p olutiomists, or the .Tongmimtang, favoring war action, and the Kuomin- d should have secured practically abso- tang element of parliament refusing b lute control of this Parliament. After 'to support such an act, because it the adbication of the eniperor and the camne -from their opponents, who, they t< inauguration of Yuan Shih-kai as claimed, were attempting to coerce p President of the Republic, the Nan- them, although they believed in the e king Provisional Parliament was measure. The deadlock became a cris- tl transferred to Peking Meantime, the1 is hanging on the action of the presi- e Tongmintang had reorganized itself, dent, lie must either dismiss the cab- o changed its nme into Kuomintang, met, as urged by the parliament, or c and enlisted the support of a large dissolve the parliament, as preposed C number of very important men, among by the cabinet and seconded by the ni Tang Shao-yi, Wu Timg-fang, and C. miltairy governors. The president de- e T. Wang. Although the party contin- cided to take the former measure. The b ued to dominate the parlhament, there miltairy governors forthwith demand- il grew up, as soon as the aoa.t of, gov- ed1 the dissolution of parliament. The c ernment was transferred to Peking, a constitmjtion was silent on this point. li number of rival, if not antagonistic Trho Kuomintang maintained that the c :parties afterwards responsible for the p resident had no such right, and that c dleadllock between the Kuomintang and he acted under the coercion of he mili the supporters of Yuan Shih-kai. The tary. The Chinputang men, on the 'res ilt was that by a high-handed other hand argued that parliament I ne isure Yuan Shih -Ra1 expelled all had not eelmfamthful to its duties, and the Kuomimtang members.; from Pe- that he presiden might call a more kin, an act amounting to dismissal of compeent one to take its place if he pmarl ament, for the mm-aority of its saw fit.a ipembers were Kuomintang men. After the dissohition of parliament After their dismissal from parlia- Tuan Chi-jul returned, and with hintm ment, the Kuomintang reverted to his cabinet although one or two posi their former activities, Which were in tions in time cabinet were siven to the main revolutionary. They believed Kuomintang~ men only to be dsmissed that Yuan Shih-kai would not be true In a short time. .?hese men wore Chen to the republic and would make him- Chin-tao, minister of finance, and Sun i self empe o, In this they were right, Hung- i, thinster of the Interior. as subsec ut events showed. Its rad- 1Veantrme the $uominitang members ieal nmem eors believed that Immediate of the dissolved parliament maintain 1,l s we will pt t lMoney-Saving Prc A o . rh r. hoes now or not w y One %lot of LS leathers, but not all Sizes One lbt of Ladies' Dress Shoes in Patents and Gun Metal, all sizes $2.75' One lot of Boys' School Shoes. n all sizes $1.98 4, 3 on Ladles' anid Men's House S bove Shoes will not last very long at these pr RECK S d that they were dismissed in viola ion of the constitution, and gathered iemselves in Canton proposing to go n with their work in defiance of the 'eking authority, which they call "the Pretty White pconstitutional government." MIDDIE It would be rather difficult to state recisely just what principles each of BLOUSE ho two parties stands for. In general ro may say that the Kuomintang rep esents the liberal and the radical ele cents of the country and believes in he predominance of the legislative yr the executive; in the development f a larg degree of provincial autono iy and a rather decentralized form of overnment. In distinction from the uomintang, the Chinputang advo-W e j s stes a strongly centralized form of overnment and the predominance of le executive over the legislative. Theou h l s olitical parties in China are far from eing well developed, and In this L~age of construction and readjust-d ri ient it is hard to define precisely ieir platforms. Besides these two main parties mere is a distinct third party the Pi-C h l angpai, although many of its mem--_____ ers identify themselves wit hthe hinputang. It may be called the mil ary party, not in the sense taht they band for the miliary development of ic country, but that the members are sinly military men/ the generals and ices who played an important part in le dissolution of the parliament and re now the real antagonists of the uonintain1g. 'Most of the members ers are of conservatLYQ&heatherear re of'bonservative character, monar robably older than either of the oth r two parties. In the main it is an utgrowth, although with important langes, of the Anhwei and the Shlhli roups of the Manchu regime. The resent existence of two more or less1 . 0 istinct factions within the party may ci traced back to this earlier division. It is inaccurate, if not misleading, speak of the Kuomintang and Chin utang as the northern and the south en parties. Many of the oladers of ie Kuomin tang are from the north rn part of the country, and on the' ther hand, many important politi ans from the south belong to the himputang. 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