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the road, and has 

 nh a French syndicate 

 to oonlinoe the hue to Rio bam be, 

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of the vessel for a good price, but not 

 to JApan while that country was at war 

 nih a fnmdly |.wrr. Socrrt arrangements 

 wtv made thcrrforr by which Ecuador acted or 

 o appear as intermediary in the 

 ostensibly buying the vessel and 

 wiling to Japan. The people of I 

 .rht thift nhamrful and suspected that 

 had thus compromised the honor of t he 

 mobile only to enrich th< 



lie -Hsmrralda" was sold to Japan in No- 

 vember. 18M, for more than $1.000,000. She 

 smiled under the Ecuadorian flag to the Gala- 

 pagos Islands. There her name was changed to 

 the - Vain." and she proceeded to Yokohama, 

 where she arrived on Feb. 6, 1885. President 

 Montt, of Chili. declared that he had sold the 

 veasel to the Ecuadorian Government. Presi- 

 dent Cordero and In* minister^ denied that they 

 had purchased a vessel from Chili. 



The ministry ordered an investigation to ap- 

 pease popular indignation, and removed Gov. 

 < aamano,of Guayaquil, Consul-General Modesto 

 Solonaoo in New York, and the <-o,,sul at Val- 

 paraiso, Gen. Aloy Alfaro. chief of the Radi- 

 cal pany, issued in the beginning of April from 

 his place of exile in Nicaragua a proclamation 

 sayinf that the only way to set Ecuador right 

 before other nations was to depose President 

 Cordero Mid all who were responsible. The stu- 

 dents and the citizens in Guayaquil and other 

 towns issued protests against the Administration. 

 The followers of Alfaro took up arms in the 

 province of Carchi, and Gen. Sarasti went to 

 The revolt spread, and the 

 possession of the town of Ibarra, on 

 ', patting to flight the 

 On April 24 President 



Cordero resigned, and Vicente Salazar. th. 

 President took his place. The Cabinet was re- 

 nnaniwd. Lute Salvador becoming Minister of 



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TO! Justice, uh.K- (,..,.. 

 SarasU remained Minister of War. 

 Woy Alfaro was the leader of the attempted 

 of 1884 end 1885. The Government 

 in the hands of Moderate 



I^Onrals or Independent, who have temporized 

 ftt* the Conservatives and failed to satisfy the 

 *.* ** Radicals that the Church 'shall 

 of public power* and deprived of 

 Alfaro and his supporters 

 1 aft*r their former upris- 

 flnally wttlod down under 

 off compromise. Cordero was a member 

 ^Jajrfcal party who made a bargain, it was 

 -aid. with astction of the Uberabin order to 

 The ideas of the Radicals 



have of In 1 ;itcr currency. Since 



Cordero's irregular election they ha\i> watched 



for a favi.ralde opjwirt unity to ^ra>p at the 



..f IM.WIT. and when* the " K-meralda" 



il arose t lit the Administration 



sere already prepared for a revolutionary 



revolution soon became formidable. 

 Government vainly attempted t.. check it i-\ 

 Mippnin^ the De WSpapers and liani.-hin. 

 editors. The relwls took the maritime town OJ 



. blowing np the barrark- \\ith d\na- 

 mite. They had 1,000 men under arms in thai 

 iily in .Ma\. and the ( i<.\ eminent at- 

 tempted to recapt tire it from the land and the 

 sea without success. < M. !;.. n led another 

 npriHtii: i" Uabahoyo. which \va- captun 

 a -till li^'ht in wh'ich the (iovrrnn 

 killed, s? wounded, and :{;. prisoners. S- 



'tits of Government troops v 

 the insurgents. In Canar women d- 

 lilic.tl pri-oners from jail. Col. Xenon /.. 

 and Col. Antonio Garcia captured I'ortovu-jo 

 with its well-supplied arsenal. At Ma< liala 

 2,000 stands of arms \\rn-e-aptured. Th 

 boat " Sucre " was blown up and 1} m. ; 

 killed. A plot to seize the JUMIII j.axi " 



was frustrated. The United St.v 

 '* Ilanger" was sent to Esmeralda to wai 

 the property of Americans, who are largely in- 

 terested in the silver mines of K> ua<l<>r. 

 the revolt of the province of < >ra and the fall <f 

 Machala, Gen. Rejinaldo Flores, commanding 

 the troops that were ma.--ed at (iuayaqnil to re- 

 capture Esmeralda and suppress the rel.el!i,.n, 

 resorted to measures so tyrannical and 

 ll'"_ r u r ini: political prisoners and jtuttn 

 \\lpile population at work upon the f< 

 lions that Gen. Sarasti wished to supersede him, 

 and sent his son to take over the command, hut 

 Flores would not give it up. Mini-t. : 

 Nunez resigned. The severity and tyranny of 

 Flores, the man who was responsible for the 

 sacking of the hacienda of Julio !'! -i 

 American, during the former revolution. 

 ated most of the friends of the Government ex- 

 cept the Conservatives of the central pn 

 who were determined to resist to the last a 

 Radical ret/inn. On Ma, 

 difficulty in suppressing a mut inv in tin 

 son of Guayaquil, of the offloen 

 many were shot and others thrown into prison. 

 A few days later that city was in the h. 

 the revolutionists, and Gen. Flores was a 

 tive. It was captured, after u >ie-;e ol 

 days, on June 6, by the army of (Jen. 1 

 wh'ich had not to fight hard, fl.r police at. 

 within assjvt.-d the assailants. < u 

 persons were killed or wounded in the . 

 ment. The revolution was vi<t<.n 

 11 of the provinces. 1',,-id'- K-nn-ral-:.. 

 Guayaquil, the rebels held also t! 

 Bah ia and Manta. The (iovernmei 

 Mill only the interior province- i,f I'ichincha, 

 ('attar. Azuay, and Loja. An insurrecti' 

 curred in Quito, and was suppressed after des- 

 perate fighting in the streets. (Jen. Kloy Alfaro 

 was proclaimed Provisional President on .Iun< 

 6. The Government forces were colic 

 Quito for a last stand. The Government asH] 

 for military aid from Colombia, but against this 



