The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1899-04-15
A SWEEPING NATIONAL VICTORY.

,iiC county elcCllOllS uclQ last week II
Ireland resulted in an Overwhelming
victory for the Home Rule candidates
aud that the Tories were buried under al
avalanche OF votes in Munster, Leinste
and Connaught, while even in Ulster
where Orangemen abound, the Nation
alists obtained notable successes in sew
eral districts. The correspondent OF tn,
New York World says OF the slaugh
tered nobility:
Among the most notable OF the de
ieated Unionists are Lord Castletown
Lord Mayo, the Marquis OF Ormonde
the Earl OF Rose and Lord Langford
all OF whom stood in their own counties
There they have extensive properties
and under the county government sys
tenn recently abolished they virtual,
had the nomination OF the governing
bodies.
Lord Frederick Fitzgerald, uncle o
the Duke OF Lelnster, defeated a Ma.
tionalist candidate by narrow major.
ity at Maynooth. which is owned by the
Fitzgerald family. and Lord Castleros:
won seat in Killarney, where his prop,
erty is situated.
The result OF Lord Dunraven's con,
test is not yet declared, but it is be,
lieved to be very close.
Only 60 per cent OF the full vote was
polled throughout Ireland, but the Ma
tionalist victory is SO decisive that the
London Times confesses: so far as
local government is concerned Union
ism has been annihilated in Munster and
Connaught, almost totally extirpated in
Leinster and badly wounded even in VI
ster."
Henry Norman, special London cor
respondent OF the New York Times
gives the following account OF the cleo
ton: The council elections, in spite oil
everything foretold to the contrary, have
been fought solely and wholly upon po-
litical lines, and the result is an over
victory for Nationalism. In
Kildare Lord Frederick Fitzgerald, a
landlord and Tory, secures an election
as the only Unionist among seven Ma
tionalists by reason OF his frank appeal
to the rebellious traditions of the people
E1e issued placard calling upon the
voters ito remember the traditions oil
Lord Edward Fitzgerald Even their
enemies cannot fail to synpathize with
the Irish landlords in their position to-
day. Bit by bit they have been sacrificed
by their Tory allies in England until
in self-deiense to throw them
selves into the arms OF the Nationalist
who now ruthlessly repudiate them.
With the exception OF Lord Frederick
Fitzgerald, Lord Castleross, and
possibly Lord Dunraven, the other
who have been OPP
posed to self-government for Ireland
were beaten out OF sight by the peas
antry of the country with ballots in their
hands. The landlord class, which has
always monopolized local government
in Ireland and dispensed the taxes paid
by the people, can do so no longer with
out becoming Home Rulers. Several Of
them have already done that, and more
will follow. Lord Frederick Fitzgerald
succeeded in defeating his Nationalist
opponent by appealing to the voters to
remember Lord Edward" the martyr
Of 'oS. He issued green placard, with
the heading in large capitals-"Vote for
the Geraldine" In the body of the
document the people were exhorted to
revere the memory of Lord Edward by
voting for his descendant and thus prove
that they are not recreant to the glorious
traditions Of the past and to the undying
cause Tor which he died"
Though the Freeman's Journal told
the electors to vote against the recreant
Geraldine who takes sides against Irish
liberty out OF respect for the memory
OF his ancestor who died for Ireland they
gave him majority of votes, Tory as
he is. The motive that actuated them
is a noble one, and ii Lord Frederick
fails to cast his lot with those who hon
ored him for the sake OF Lord Edwar
he deserves to lose his seat at the next
election.
The election in Cork county was quite
exciting, and it is stated that scvera
Tories were preferred to Nationalist
at the polls. During the campaign al
Charcville, one OF the landlord candi
dates, r. NJ. D. Sanders, employed
twenty or thirty rowdies to stone the
speakers at Nationalist meeting
Among those attacked by the hireline
biackguards were Father Lillis ant
Michael Davitt. What the result OF the
election is in that locality the CORE
spondents do not say, but it is to bt
hoped that the coercionist evictor wa:
defeated beyond doubt. On the whole
we are pleased with the conduct of the
Irish people in the first election for loca
purposes in which they have been per
rnitted to participate.
BRYAN.AND BELMONT AGAIN.
The last letter addressed by William