The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-19

REPRESENTATION OF WEXFORD.

the eleventh hour. The Mayor held his
nomination court on Tuesday, aud Mr..
bert, the parish priest, and seconded by
Mr.. Synnot. To this point in the proceed
ings all had been quite peaceable, and,
we might say, quite calm, if it were not for
expressed the feeling of the people when
Father Lambert spoke to them of historic
wrongs, and urged the necessity, at this
trying crisis, of electing to represent them
a man who would be true to them and to
the country. But when the presentation of
furd had been rendered formally complete,
an elector provoked scene of great dis
order by proposing Mr.. John Bacon, OF
Romford- place, Liverpool" to ill the va
cant seat. The meaning of this move was
soon interpreted. Mr.. Edward Walsh an
nounced that a disreputabIe trick, which
had been kept secret till the night before,
was intended to be played off on the elect
ors, that the rights and liberties of Wex-
ford had been hawked about, and that the
that they could disqualify Mr.. Red mond
after his election, and 30 put into the seat
the second candidate, no matter how few
the votes he might have polled. To rem
der this scheme abortive, Mr.. Walter Red
mond, the brother of the Home Rule can
show of hands was overwhelmingly in favor
of thu brothers, and a poll was demanded
for the great 'unknown-the man of Rom
ford place. Between Tuesday and Thurs
day the supporters of the Liverpool man
they have We ~ the
dignation which their attempt excited
among the people. Before the hour of the.
contest came the stranger withdrew his
candidature, and Mr.. Redmond was, of
course, elected, as he would have been in
any case.-Dublin Nation, April27
| GALWAY CONTESTED ELECTION CASE.
On Tuesday morning the case of the
occupied with Mr.. Macdonogh's speech for
Captain Nolan. The learned counsel first
set out the various charges against his
client: Corrupt treating, which has been
dissipated into thin air; the supply of
bands and banners, and the like, which,
election; lay intimidation and clerical in
reference. sAs to the charge the Archbish-
op was fons ct origo mali, that his suffragan
Bishops followed him, and that the Clergy
subsequently followed them, the learned
counsel said he would invert the issue
that the Bishops owed the Archbishop no
political subserviency, and that they
showed him none; that the evil began with
the packed landlord meeting at Loughrae !;
and that the real .fons ct origo mali was no
The notion that Captain Nolan, with such
a good majority, should be unseated with.
, out scrutiny, was ridiculed by the learned
counsel, who then proceeded to speak of
t the political history of G galway, of the times
), Clanricarde famils -''their centre of light''
l. when the tenants, not knowing their
. privileges and their rights, followed their
Q landlords to the poll with blind submission,
y and when property was bequeathed on the
g antry should be given to "Lord Clanri-
y carde." Mr.. Macdonogh commended that
9 the candidature of Captain Trench was
). rooted in illegality, because Lord Clanri.
o carde had from the outset interfered in his
y behalf, and interfered in such manner
Is and to such an extent, that, according tc
1t Blackstone and the Seasonal Orders, he
st had been guilty of an offence against the
m statute law of the country. His attendance
Of at the Loughrea meeting was denounced al
,e a breach of etiquette and law. Mr.. Mac
III donogh vindicated tue right of the clergy
rs to take an active part in a contest in which
L. they felt, and must have felt, great legiti
at mate interest; he described the Atherny
resolutions as harmless, proper, and high
principled, and the subsequent resolution
:, at various public meetings as perfectly
=. within the law but the ukase issued b.
u Sir Thomas Burke to his tenants was
a. bitter and unprovoked attack the actor
J: of Lord Clanricarde in stopping custom
ID increasing rents, ETC., was contrary t
rs public right and public law; and the land
ID lord coordination had for one of it's ends t.
'e dsparage the priests, who saw the neces
ID sity of Interfering against such a combina
>; ton, and in favor of 2 candidate who's
). political principles had won their sympa
re thies and the sympathes of their people,
N N Ibid.
8. THE PROTESTANT SYNOD.
y On considering the report of the Revision
3 Committee the Rev. Mr.. Irwin moved tina
e the Church of Ireland should pause befor
d consenting to the mutilation of the Atha
" nasian Greed. The clergy mostly protest
n ed against the mutilation, but Lord Jane
= Butler would support the abolition of thu
. three creeds, including the Athanasial
!. Creed and the so-called Apostles Creed
t Perhaps the drollest theology in support o
:, the retention of the creed was furnished b!
t. Mr.. Hamilton, who said, they all boastet
of the British flag "that braved Thousand
years the battle and the breeze" and her
g was the Athanasian Greed, which has beer
r. q. a thousand years the flag of the Reformed
a. Church yet they now endeavored to ge
ar rid of it. Lord Dunalley agreed with Lore
h James Butler in his estimate of the Athana
sion which he thOuUht ahnuld b.