The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-10
REVOLUTION BREWING
PEACE OF THE BLACK REPUBLIC
SERIOUSLY THREATENED AGAIN.
Party of Progress in Hayti Anxious to
Overthrow Hippolyte and Wade
Through Blood to Do 1t.

NEW YORK, JAM "a local paper has re-
ceived mail advices from Port Au Prince,
Haiti to the effect that revolution far
reaching in extent and Importance and its
probable results is again threatened in the
Black republic. The correspondent says If
the plans of the conspiratcrs do not miscar-
ry it will be well under way by the latter
part of January. The movement must not
be COMPOUNDED with the periodical uprisings
that have convused this part of San Do
mingo since the establishment OF the re-
public in 1S0f-it Is not so much the moving
Of the restless spirit of plot and intrigue
as it is the natural process Of evolution.
the pushing forward of nineteenth-century
civilization, the further obliteration OF the
primitive and the substitution of the mod
ern. The seven years term OF Florivel Hip
polyte, the present President, expires In
1897. The constitution provides that Presi-
dent cannot succeed himself until at least
one term Of office intervenes. AS in any
other country where a politician ambitious
for continuance of power is baked by
legal bar. Hippolyte would like to name his
successor. He has number OF candidates.
Two of the more prominent are Gen. Nerd
Alexis, delegate to the Department OF the
ter of War. These will be the principal adj
ministration candidates. and IL is to defeat
them that the revo.utionists will bend every
energy, appealing not to the popular will
of the people, but to the arbitrament Of the
sword. or, to be more precise, the niachete.
The trouble has been brewing for three
years or more, and preparations have been
going on steadily to make the coup when
the time arrives That will be some time
between jan 20 and 30-perhaps a little
earlier. The government knows this and is
preparing to meet 1t. An election for men,
bers of the House OF Deputies is to be he'd.
and the Deputies then elected will form an
electoral college, majority Of whose men,
bers will name the next President In Octo-
Der of this year.
The revolutionary party has for its cam
didate General Francois ManIsat, now an
exile i'm Kingston, Jamaica, whittier he
was deported five years ago for conspiracy
against the Hippolyte administration. Gem
eral MaEtgat is a black man. He is in the
prime OF life-about forty-1ve-and pos
sesses natural qualities of leadership. Cen
eral ManiSat was trained I'm the Ecole
Militaire at ST. Cyr. He was brought in
contact with the brightest minds in France
and his nature being alert and receptive
he retained what he heard and learned
Manigat is said TO be burning with eager
ness 10 return 10 MS old country so that he
may apply the knowledge he has gained
in Europe. There are no railroads in Haiti
Manigat wants to build them. The noun
famous roads leading from the coffee
plantations TO the coast are as rough and
rugged as they were hundred years ago.
Manigat wants TO improve them. The dock
ing facilities at all ports are crude and
primitive-al:nost ludicrous. He proposes
new docks. new wharves, better harbors
The revolutionists propose to reach their
goal of peace through an avenue OF blood.
No. fLs<
either Hippolytes men is elected TO the
House of Deputies. IL the vote accom-
plishes this object we'll and good; If not
well, then force. The National Bank OF
Haiti located in this town may be the first
point OF attack. IL IS the custodian OF the
government funds. There is Treasury
Department. The bank IL now strongly
guarded and will so continue until after the
election. The adherents of Manigat are
bound TO inaugurate a peaceful. nonplotting
government. If they have TO XII every
ofiiceholders to do IL.