The Sun.
London, England, 1868-10-24 00:00:00

ADVICE TO NON-ELECTORS.

A Dublin correspondent writes that there are no siecial
features to be noticed in connection with the electioneering
movement in the provinces except in one instance, that of
the county of Wexford. There, it seems, a special battery
is to be prepared to aid in defeating the Conservative can-
didate. It is to be manned by the non-electors, and its
effectiveness may be judged from the observations of the
rev. gentleman to u honi is due the credit of employing
such a political projectile. At A meeting held in New
Ross to promote the return of Messrs. D'Arcy and
Power, it was advocated in a speech which is thus
reported in the Daily Express :—" The Rev. William
Murphy, P.P., Cushentown, said he had to say a word to
the non-electors, for the power of the non-electors was
nearly equal to that of the electors. The electors only
represented a community among whom they lived. They
represented the non-electors, and the non-electors should
make them vote as they wished. He remembered an
occasion on which the non-electors exercised their power
to good purpose—in the famous rotten-egg election'of Wex.
ford, when the electors were made to vote for the Liberal
candidates by the power of rotten eggs. And he thought
that the power of rotten eggs ought to be as potent
as ever to make the electors vote as they ought. He saw
about 100 electors going with their agent—the agent of,
an Orange Tory—to vote for an obnoxious candidate;
but they were met by the power of the people. They
Showered upon the agent a literal shower of rotten
eggs. The agent was dressed up primly, white vest, in.
hat, coat, and pantaloons of unexceptionable cut and colours;
but the shower of rotten eggs totally disfigured him. (A
Voice : Devil's cure to him.') What was then done?
Why, in order to put him in good condition again by a good
washing, Tom and Jem Neill, from the Black Cow, and
a couple of boys from Billy's-alley, by way of compassion,
after his clothes being destroyed, sopped him in the river,
The tide happened to be in full at the time, and they had
plenty of water to wash him ; but he lost his shoes in the
ducking, and then they sent for a pair of brogues
by way of compensation. The brogues were well
paved with hob-nails, and had irons on the heels like
asses' shoes. They put the hobnailed brogues on him and
said ' Henceforth you will be known as Bill Hobbs ; ' and
Bill Hobbs he was called ever after. There's an example of
the power of rotten eggs. But now about Pat Hare. He
will be bringing up his tenants dressed in nightcaps, in the
New Ross steamer, to vote for Orange ascendancy. When
they came here he (Rev. Mr. Murphy) would say to the non.
electers, meet him as the Wexford men met the ageet,with
a shower of rotten eggs ; don't break his bones, don't touch
a hair of his head, but give him a shower of rotten eggs.
If they would do that, Pat Hare's tenants would skedaddle
home again. This was the most important election they
ever had in this country, for if they were beaten now,
they would be beaten for ever, and they should
hang their heads in shame. Here, he would say, let all
Liberal electors vote for Power and D'Arcy, and let all
Orange electors stay at home. Let the non-electors be
well provided with rotten eggs, and let them use them.
If they do, the victory will be theirs in the triumphant
return of D'Arcy and Power. He would not speak of the
persecution of the Catholics for the past 300 years. He
need not refer to the time when that street ran with
human gore ; the blood of their uncles and fathers. He
himself had an uncle shot in that street. He would not
refer to those painful memories at greater length but
they could not forget them."