The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-05-04
From Our Own Correspondent.
OUR IIIsE LETTER.
DUBLIN, April IL, 1873.


Victory has waited on the banner of the peo-
pie the Catholic people-in county Tyrone.
1t is true that Captain Cory tho Orange land
lord candidate, has been declared elected by q
right man, Mr.. Mccartney. But tho fact is,
that through an inexplcable blunder on
the part of the returning officers, some 240
votes were :: invalidated," and of these, $50
were given for Mccartney and only sixty for
CORY. If all the votes given were counted,
the former would have had 1888, the latter
3,199, and, therefore, there would have been u
majority of eighty-four in favor of the popular
candidate, instead OF there being, as there is
for the present at least-a majority of thir-
ty-six the other way. i say " for the present"
intends to question by legal process the inva-
lidity of the rejected votes, and it is by no
means certain that if he does question it, he
will not be successful in oustiug his opponent.
virtual victory of the people must be acknow-
lodged, and will be felt severely in the Orange
and landlord camp. Nay, even if Captain
Cory We're in a majority of thirty-six, 1t would
be virtual defeat of his party. For just con-
slider. Here is 4 county whose representation
has been in the undisputed possession of the
Tory Orange landlord faction from time i'm
memorial. There has not been in it till this
ton, for at least fifty years. The late Mr..
CORY sat for it for more than forty years un-
interruptedly. In fact, the two leading fami-
lies in the county-the family of which the
Earl of Belmore is the head, and the Hamil
tons-here ut every election put up their men
and get them elected without any question
whatever Nor; suddenly we find one of the
Belmore's-for Captain Cory is brother of
the Earl of Belmore-opposed, and actually
put i'll minority of eghty-four, and techni-
calIy in a majority of only thirty-six! The
ness is simply this. The tenant voters were
mere thralls until the ballot system of voting
tame into operation. They could only vote
against their landlords at the certain risk of
tislII - nf md ,Iar
snr' cEruuiS' m"ces, they naturally enough
SIM N"''.' tLvlr political convictions, and al
lowed go, landlord full swing. Now. however
when TIA landlords can't make ont how they
vote, they naturally rise up in their m ght
and strike down at onr "i"w' the blighting as
cendancy o! their haze ;.tG cruel masters. You
may be sure the :t-I."lpIGa are " down III the
mouth"
This Tyrone victory is not only q popular
victory it is also Catholic and nationalist
victory. For 1T is quite certain that all or
nearly all who voted for Mccartney, were Ca
tholics, and all who voted for GaEFE-pSeFe gen.
uine Orangemen. You may be sure the Orange
men polled to the last in favor of their
candidate. II this be so, they have been
proved to be in the minority, aud it is mani
testify delusion to suppose that Tyrone is an
Orange county. When tell you that the reg
istration of Catholic voters has been grossly
neglected, that thousand Catholics can be
added this year to the registry of votes, and
that in the late contest there was no great in
ducement for them to put forth their strength
yet that even so they managed without any
fuss to beat their opponents, it is easy to i'm
agine what they can do at the next election.
AS one of their priests said in 0magh on Mon
day evening last, they will put forward and
elect two genuine Home Rulers and Tenant
Fighters, and add their fine county to the list of
those constituencies which will achieve the
liberation of the country.
Some surprise may be felt by some that the
Catholics have been able to win the victory
and it may seem incredible that they will or
can achieve greater one on the occasion of
the next contest. And no doubt the surprise
and incredulity would not be altogether un-
natural, considering the fact that the repre-
sentatives of Tyrone have ever and always
been Orangemen, that it has always been spo-
ken Of as an Orange county, that it's Orange