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object of this is to misrepresent me as guilty of dis-
obedience to our late President's Testament and throw
doubt on my fitness for my task. The second charges
me with having conspired with the troops of Mukden and Shangtung. By this they hope to convict me of collusion
with our foes and thus damage my reputation for trust-
worthiness. In the third, I am accused of having failed
to publish a statement of the military expenses hitherto
incurred. I am thus made to appear as having dealt
inexpertly with military expenses and a blot is put upon
my revolutionary career thereby. It was obviously the
intention of the creators of these rumours to deprive
me totally of the confidence of our members. But in
view of my past career in the Revolution and my present position in the Kuomintang, I am confident that no
rumours of this kind circulated by any member can under-
mine in the least degree my reputation for efficiency
and trustworthiness.
In the first year of the Republic, some of the
bitterest oppoments of our Kuomintang along with the
puppets of Yuan Shi Kai, with the object of casting
doubt on our late President's character and past actions put a rumour into circulation that our President had
received a bribe of $3,000,000 from Yuan and for that
consideration resigned the Presidency to him.
Fellow-comrades! Can you credit this? But at
that time there were even some people who nurtured
suspicions and believed that this tale was true. And
now again some people want to wreck the Kuomintang and therefore they make a beginning by attempting to
overthrow me. In pursuance of this they have lost all regard for justice and the true interests of our Kuomintang and
the