Among its successive patrons have been Yuan Shih-kai, Tuan Chi-jui and Chiang Kai-shek (to whom the Political Science Group, formed out of a section of the Progressive Party, has attached itself).

• 袁世凯、段祺瑞、蒋介石（附蒋的是进步党之一部转变而成的政学系）就成了它的靠山。