Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-04-15
Dunraven May Pull Through,
Butt Will BE by a Mar
row Margin.
Cable From Michael Davitt
Giving the Latest Flee
ton Returns.
LAST INYINCIBLES TO BE FREED SOON

Michael Davitt cables the Irish World,
New York, from Dublin as follows:
Election returns now in show: County
Councillors elected number 633. of these
523 are Nationalist and 10 Tories.
Connaught returns landlords against
80 Nationalists; Munster Unionists
against 1873 Nationalists; Leinster gives
90 Unionists against 300 Nationalists;
while Ulster, the stronghold of Unionism,
elects 80 Nationalist against 80 Tories.
The overwhelming nature of the Ma
tionalist triumph has produced pro-
found effect oil the English mind. "Tol-
Grafton" treachery is everywhere secuted
throughout the country.
The United Irish League won every
fight III the West.
A special cable dispatch to the New
York World states that Viceroy Cadogan
announced to a deputation of the corpo-
ration of Dublin that he will soon release
the last three "Invincibles''-Fit
James Mullett and Patrick Hanlon-
still in prison for completely in the
Phoenix Park murders. All three were
sentenced to penal servitude for life, and
will have completed sixteen years this
summer.
Fitzharris was the driver of the out
lie car on which the men who COM
mitted the crime arrived and escaped.
He is an eccentric character. Every
inducement was offered him to turn in
former when the Crown case was being
got up, but he scornfully spurned these
proposals. James Mullett was one of the
originators of the conspiracy. Hanlon
was with Brady and the others who were
the actual assassins.
Though the unity conference held in
Dublin last week to end dissension i'll the
Irish parties has, if not actually failed,
at least hung fire, the attachment of the
Irish people to home rule remains UNI
diminished. In the elections for the
newly-established County Councils just
held throughout Ireland the Home Rule
candidates swept Munster, Leinster and
Connaught, while even in the most Con-
servative districts of Ulster the National
lists obtained notable successes.
In the three Nationalist provinces the
Unionist candidates stood in every
county, reckoning on the apparently
apathetic condition of political feeling
following factionist discussions to Ell.
able them to secure a larger represen.
tation if not control of some of the most
important new county boards. But
except in isolated cases where on Ier.
sonal grounds Unionists were elected
unopposed, they have been overwhelm-
ingly defeated.
The policy of importing politics into
these elections was denounced by John
Redmond and his friends, who argued
that liberation should be drawn to the
Unionists, who should be accorded z
fair representation as the best way o.
starting the new bodies on their career
Dillon, on the contrary, recommended
that no quarter be given to the enemies
of home rule until home rule is at
tanned.
Among the most notable of the de
feated Unionists are Lord Castletown
Lord Mayo, the Marquis of Ormonde
the Earl of Rose and Lord Lang
ford, all of whom stood in their owl
counties. There they have EXTENSIVE
, properties, and under the county govern
ment system recently abolished they vir
tually had the nomination of the gov
erning bodies. Lord Frederick Fitzger
aid, uncle of the Duke of Leinster, de
feated Nationalist candidate by marrow
: majority at Maynooth, which is owne,
by the Fitzgerald family, and Lord Castle
ross won seat in Killarney, where hi
property is situated. The result of Lor
: Dunraven's contest is not yet declared
but it is believed to be very close.
Only go per cent. of the full vote wa
: polled throughout Ireland, but the Ma
tionalist victory is so decisive that tn
London Times confesses: $50 fal as locG
government is concerned Unionism ha
been annihiliated in Munster and Con
naught, almost totally extirpated in Leir
5 ster and badly wounded even in Ulster.
e PRAYERS ANSWERED.