Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1891 — THE HAYTIAN REBELLION. [ARTICLE]

THE HAYTIAN REBELLION.

It Was Instigated by Politicians Who Hop cd to Secure Advancement. Ilaytitin Minister Hannibal Price, speaking of the late revolt in Port-au-Prince, said that the trouble on May 28 which caused so much bloodshed was not a revolution against ihe government of Hypolite, but a riot instigated £y a few soreheads who sought personal gain. Thepolitical leaders of the party opposed to Hypolite, he said, were in Jamaicaand were not implicated by the affair of May 28. The riot was arranged by a few persons who formerly held petty positions if. former governments and hoped to rise to places of prominence by the outbreak-