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Show ELECTION IN CHINA 15 (Ml HOAX Writer Believes Empire Selected Se-lected Unpropitious Time for Birth. JAPAN IS DISTURBER Warns Against Uprisings 'While Secretly Encouraging Encourag-ing Rebellions. fipcclul Cablo to The Tribune. Pekin, Jan. 22. In a groat building build-ing in the west city of Pekin, a building which was af one time a parliament house, the voters had just gone through the last act of tho farce of voting the republic out and the enipjre in. It was a dull, not to say disniaf spectacle. 8o that voters might not lose their way and foreign obcrvers might be duly impressed, every lamp post on the streets leading to the hall bore placards giving directions, with maps of the city. At the hall officials in uniform examined the credentials of voters or visitors and conducted them to the place where they belonged visitors to the gallery, voters vot-ers to the former senate house. The voter was supplied with a piece of white paper, on which he made the Chinese character which signified whether wheth-er he was for or against the election of TTiian as emperor. Having cast Ms vote and placed it on the ballot box he retired. re-tired. The. voters comprised Manchus, Mongolians Mon-golians meritorious persons and profound, pro-found, scholars, and their duty was to solect 194 men who should act in the final assembly which was supposed to speak the voice of China, Perfectly Staged. Everything was very well stage-man-and the voters were in ail appear-r appear-r ajo as free as air to express their ;v opinions. There was no enthusiasm, such lis occidentals are accustomed to W )jen in their minor electoral contests, but rerTtniug was orderly and quiet and r externals left nothing to be desired. de-sired. When it is added that the result was a national assembly which gave its 1993 votes solidly for monarchy, one will be ablo to form an opinion as to the freedom free-dom of the voting. The truth is that, considered as a specimen of government by the will of the people, the whole business was an elaborate sham. The monarchy movement was engineered from Pelcin, and the present government, govern-ment, which is Yuan, ran it. President Yuan is just as reluctant to Uoosevelt, William Howard Taft and "VVoodrow Wilson w-ere, respectively, to become president of the United States at the last presidential contest. It is a Yuan move, and since the secret motives of men's minds are not open for judgment judg-ment it is not well to b.iv that it is not tho result of a deep and patriotic, conviction con-viction that only the establishment of an empire with himself on the throne can save China. But the pretext of popular agitation and an irresistible demand are just welb just etiquette, in the same way as Yuan s first refusal was oriental politeness. ' Time-Must Tell. It does not follow that the change niay; not be the best thing for China. Dr. Frank Goodnow of Johns Hopkins university is not an admirer of empires in themselves, but he caine to the conclusion con-clusion that a monarchy was the only government for China. dany other t'or-eigners t'or-eigners hold tho same view." The average aver-age Chinaman does not care a straw. He understands an emperor, but has no knuwledge of presidents. The president of a republic, and the president of a sugar company are alike represented by the same, Chinese characters, and it has been impossible to convev to the masses any, notion of any kind" of rule other lian autocratic. Tyl'he ouly real question which arises is whether the. new government will work with more efficiency than the old. It should not be imagined that any sacrifice sac-rifice of political idealism is involved. The government which has existed in China for the last two years was not a republic, but a military dictatorship. On the whole, it is better 'that things should be called by their right names, and true republicans will rather rejoice that rhina has called in her counterfeit political coin. Will it work: The Japanese do not believe that it will, and thev are in a position to press the button which will either give it a chance or surround its iuiant years with deadly troubles. The attitude of the Japanese government -..as disclosed a few weeks ago, when a formal warning was tendered to Yuan against making the change. The attitude of the Japanese press is that China, by continuing with a i-haiiL'c which was too far advanced to be stopped when Japan gave the word, is flouting the advice of "the lord of the orient'' and should be brought to book. Europe Too Busy. The government at Tokio is preparing prepar-ing another warning to China. Europe is engrossed in its own troubles and the entente allies are the willing or unwilling unwil-ling partners of Japan. America stands aloof. Japan has intimated that she will not permit China to jeopardize "the permanent peace of tho orient" by internal , disorders. Yuan has the v with him and believes he can put un ,-inv outbreaks which may occur. J,i.m. judcing from a recent" official phrase- wauls a guarantee that there ehull be no outbreaks, .'o aoveruuiont can give such a guarantee, least of all China, with a dozen treaty ports withdrawn with-drawn from her jurisdiction. China complains that Sun Yat Sen : and other revolutionary leaders find an j asylum in Japan, and claim to have proof that Sun was the instigator of the abortive rebellion in the Shanghai region last month. The arms which the revolutionaries used were of Japanese make and repeated charges are made of explosives being smuggled from Japan to Chiua. A large quantity of dynamite not long a,'o was loun'd in the luggage of a .1 apanese who landed in China, and a bomb exploded with fatal results in the ?hop of a Japanese merchant of Shanghai. Shang-hai. It is a fact that such seizures as have been made by the Chinese authorities authori-ties have not implicated any foreigners other than Japanese. While the Japanese government is openly declaring its intention not to permit upheavals in China, .Japanese nationals are ai'msed of aetivelv doin all in (heir power to make upheavals! The empire .lid not choose a prupitious moment for iU birth. |