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Title: The fight for the republic in China
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Weale, B. L. Putnam, 1877-1930
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Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
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om the Legislative Chamber andfifty from the Senate, the Presidential candidates con-sisting of the President (if he so desired) and the threewhose names were in the gold box in the Stone House inthe Palace grounds. It is not definitely known to whomthese provisions were due, but it is known that at leastthey were not the work of the American adviser. His responsibility, however, was very great; for thekeynote of all this scheme, according to Dr. Goodnow,^was centralization of power, a parrot-like phrasewhich has deluded better men than ever came to Chinaand which—save as a method necessary during a stateof war—should have no place in modern politics. Butit was precisely this which appealed to Yuan Shih-kai.Although as President he was ex officio Commander-in- 1 It is significant that Dr. Goodnow carried out all his Constitutionalstudies in Germany, specializing in that department known as Adminis-trative Law which has no place, fortunately, in Anglo-Saxon conceptionsof the State.
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H WH - W - »< ^ o o o O Ph ^ CO H Ci -1 H « tr. O REPUBLIC IN CHINA 67 Chief of the Army and Navy, he now turned this officeinto a direct and special organization installed withinthe precincts of the Imperial City. The flags of thisnew dictatorship constantly floated over his palace,whilst scores of officers were appointed to scores ofdepartments which were directly concerned with cen-tralizing the control of every armed man in the countiyin the masters hands. Meanwhile in order to placateprovincial commanders, a Palace of Generals, wascreated in Peking to which were brought all men it washeld desirable to emasculate. Here, drawing amplesalaries, they could sit in idleness the livelong day, dis-cussing the battles they had never fought and intriguingagainst one another, two occupations in which the prod-uct of the older school of men in China excels. Provin-cial levies which had any military virtue, were graduallydisbanded, though many of the rascals and rapscallions,who were ope

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