CONSPIRACY IN HAYTI.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1436, 10 May 1912, Page 5

CONSPIRACY IN HAYTI.

MANY ARRESTS, INCLUDING FOREIGNERS. tl Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrieht. (Rec. May 9, 9.55 p.m.) Port-au-Prince, May 9. Tho Hayti Government has discovered a conspiracy to unseat President Havor in favour of ex-President fiimon. Many arrests have been made, including some, foreigners. In an article in the London "Times," Sir H. Johnston writes,—The curse of Hayti from the day she established her independence in 1804 to the present time is tho tyrannical and wasteful Government of the military party. Scarcely a President in the history of Hayti has not been a military man, and tho favourite leader,' for the time being, of the major portion of the army. It seems impossible for a really civilian Government of Hayti to come into existence. Tho country possesses a pedantically perfect constitution, providing every possible safeguard for civil /liberty and freedom of elections. Yet President after President ignores the precepts of the constitution and either governs Hayti despotically, or allows tho country to be misruled and shamefully robbed by a camarilla of Ministers. Whonover some intelligent Haytian politician attempts to point out acts of unconstitutional Government, he is either taken out and shot then and there, by order of tho President, or is flung into prison, and perhaps made to undergo shameful and horrible tortures. , . , . Ex-President A-ntome Simon was forced to give up the Presidency through a reTflution last year.