New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-10-10
LAND LEAGUE AND LAND ACT.

pIpATE ELECTED IN SPITE OF THE EfFohl9or
THE LEAGUE-MR. PARN1LLs APPEAL ~ NJ
IIGIoUs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF TN
GOVERNMENTS UNEXPECTED TluuMfh-oOi
RACES ny THE LEAGUE POLICE'-IHE fUlO""
OF THE CONTEST BETWEEN THE LAND All AMI
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rvpoN r,fr REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
LONDON, Sert. 9.--Every well-wiSher 10 Ire'anu
bs ,opse for rejoicing in the result OF the Tyrone
I,,, To iIl-wishers and well-wIshers alike 1t is
a spr,rise Most people had lately taken Tor
Granted that the Rev. Mr. Ryletts candidature
would prove fatal to Mr. Dickson. Tyrone is Tory
county from OF old From the passage OF the Ee-
form Bill down to last year, no Liberal has repre-
scented il in Parliament. In 1865 1t returned TWO
Conservatives without contest. In 1871 three
Conservatives disputed the two seats; but the
division in the Tory ranks tempted no LlDerai I'd
try his chance In 1880 at the general election
Mr. Litton came forward as a Liberal A ConserVa-
tive headed the pon by 800 votes, but Mr. Litton
carried off the second seat by majority of is in
total of 1000 Mr. LittOn has been appointed on
the Land Commission, and his seat became vacant.
tt was contested for he Conservatives by Colonel
Knox and for the Liberals by Mr.. Dickson. Tax
ing the past history of the county anu he last
poll. Colonel Knox was thought TO have the better
chance.
In these circumstances Mr. Parnell appeared upon
the scene Tyrone is in Ulster where neither Mr.
Parnell nor his Land League has ever had anything
like the hold upon the people which 1t gained
among the moro ignorant population of COnnaught
and Munster. But Nh. Parnell was resolved that
whatever chance Mr.. Dickson had should be de-
stroyed If the League was not strong enough
to rule il was strong enough TO ruin. 1t could not
elect Mr. RyletT but it could beat Mr.. Dickson ana
SO enable Mr. Parnell to boast chat he had struck
another blow at the =" Coercion Government
which has conferred upon the Irish tcnantry an
immense boom and which is the object OF the IN
extinVuishable hate of the man who calls hiinseu
the champion of the Irish tenantrv. He announced
his purpose in language of the most unmistakable
plainness Speaking at Castedegy at the outset of
fhe campaign. Mr. Parnell said: ." have come to
you after an eight months struggle in London with
the enemies of Ireland to carry that struggle on
the soil of our country and ask you, the electors
and people of Tyrone, to-day, to decide between us
who represent truly The people of Ireland and the
Government which has shackied, which has forged
fetters of coercion for the noblest OF lrelands
children" Thess declarations he reiterated ana
enlarged in this and many following speeches. lie
made the issue as square as it could be made. He
undertook to stamp out" the Wing clique III
Ulster He attacked the Government on every
ground He repudated all gratitude for the Land
Act and the Land Act itself tie declared that
vote far Mr. Dickson was a vote for coercion though
MIR Dickson himself said he was opposed to coer-
zion Day after day and night after night dld if.
Parnell appeal to the electors OF Tyrone, VINO are
the tenant farmers of Tyrone, to vote for Dir Ryett
and against Mr.. Dickson as protest III favor Oh
the Land League aud against the Government. lie
mt forth great efforts summoned some OF MS
henchmen to his aid. held numerous meetings. and
threw the whole weight of the powerful Organiza-
ton of which he is president into his canvass lie
md ,f,oh
plause. 1t was observed that the proportion of
voters to listeners was not always large; STILL tho
Judgment of the best informed men on the spot was
thai Mr.. Parnell would carry his point, and that
though Mr. Rylett would not be elected. MI
dickson would surely be defeated. The note of
triumph was heard in advance. The leading
League paper in Dublin said the day before the
election that he must be a sangune man who can
anticipate that Mr. Rylett will be returned, but he
would BE still more sanguine who hoped TO see Mr..
Dickson victorious And it exulted over the ex-
pected success of Colonel Knox as another lesson
that will be read to the Government"
The result is that Mr.. Dickson is elected by
majority of o. 1t is not large majority but 1t IS
almost double that by which Nh Litton won the
seat when the Land League was not in the field
Over 1000 votes were cast; only l13 less than at
the general election last year. OF the 1000 the
are altogether out. Toward the end he had become
On mucb aushed by his own eoquence rs to believe,
or to saw that Mr. Dickson was no longer III the
bunt: that the real struggle was between Colonel
Knox and Mr. Rylett. Probably he did not believe
ANYTHING of the sort The pretence of believing it
was an electioneerng ruse. But he undoubtedly
did believe that he had entced away enough of
Mr. Dckson's voters to secure Mr.. Dicksons
defeat A comparison of figures indicates that Dir.
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Tories to one Liberal Ulster politics are cOmpli-
Gated by ecclesiastical animosi'ies, so that the
words Tory and Liberal do not accurately or COM
,letelv describe the division OF parties. The Pres
bvter,ans and Roman Catholics expected to
vote on opposite sides. Mr.. Parnel, among his
other too numerous predictions, announced that he
had mission to extinglish the Presbyterians. The
Presbyterians not eXtinguished. They appear
TO have contributed something to the extinction OF
Mr. Parnell They are about 5000 strong and Mr..
Dckson's vote is largely Presbyterian. OF Roman
Catholic voters in Tyrone there are al least 1000;
all of whom according to Mr.. Parnelfs computa-
tiors. were to vote for Mr. Rylett. As Mr. Ryletts
whole vote was less than half this number the sue
cess of Mr. Parneps appeal to religions yindicive-
ness was not brilliant 1t used to be his boast that
the Land League agitation had appeased the
ferocity of sects and united Irshmen of all denomi-
nations against the foreigner. That was when it
served his purpose to promote peace between Catho-
lies and Protestants. When il serves his purpose
to promote discord, he promotes that.
It is perhaps asking 100 much OF an American
reader to follow with interest these details of dis
fant election. Bnt the election is fraught with
issues OF very great and farreachng Importance.
As mere matter of party politics. the Liberal
success in Tyrone balances and more than balances
the two Liberal defeats of last week in England:
North Lincolnshire and North Durham. But party
poltics was the least of the issues involved in the
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