The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1913-03-01
Remarkable Events Which Preceded
and Followed Electio,! o:
Justin Mccarthy.
The Unionist Majority of That Time
Was Cancelled on Account
of Bribery.
Incidents of the Polling Day Mar
rated by a Dublin Freeman
Correspondent.

The recent capture of Derry by an
Irish Protestant Home Ruler, David
Hogg, recalls tho famous election of
1886 when the late Justin Mccarthy
Won the Division for the Nationalist
Party, says correspondent in the
Dublin Freeman" who narrates the
main features of the remarkable
events which preceded and followed
the election. Mr.. Mccarthy had also
contested the seat the pr,evious year,
and had been defeated. Alderman
ODoherty, previously Il member Of
the Irish Party representing North
Donegal, who managed Mr.. McCar-
thy's campaign was in favor Of petit
tioning against the return of Mr.. Nc
Carthy's opponent, Charles e. Lewis,
at the 1856 election, as he had in his
possession information of the manner
In which voters living ut a distance
had been induced to come 10 the poll.
But other counsels prevailed. and the
return Of McCarthy's opponent was
allowed to go unchallenged. But AL
derman O'Doherty had in his possess
| sion the evidence Of the illegal prac-
tices followed by the Uniol.ists, and
1t stood him-i good stead lin coRnac-l
ton with the struggle Of the follow
: ing year.
How Tory Methods Were Discovered.
! The discovery of the methods re-
sorted to came about, Alderman
O'Doherty told me. in this way. A
Derry tradesman working II: a Done.
/ gal town brought a Post Office order
which he had received to his employ
er. thinking that it was In payment
for money due to the employer The
latter saw that it was nothing Of the
sort, and connecting the transaction
with tn Derry contest he communi-
Gated the circumstances to Alderman
ODoherty.
The polling in tho 1886 election
took place OIL July 5. Both sides
were equal, and both knew it. Alder
man O'Doherty was watching very
closely the counting on tho following
day. and to his horror, found that Mr..
Mccarthy was nearly hundred be-
hind. There was CONSERVATION
among the Nationalists. The counted
votes were in bundles of fifty. Mr..
O'Doherty examined them, and in the
fourth bundle found that the vote on
J the top was for Lewis and that all the
others were for Mccarthy. The ef-
feet Of this was to take forty-nine
votes from the real total OF the Ma
tionalist candidate and add forty-nine
to the actual total of the Unionist.
The count now resulted in tie.
There was recount, and as result
/ of it Mr.. Lewis was declared elected
by majority of three. The figures
as announced by the Returning Off
Ger were: Charles E. Lewis. 1,781;
Justin Mccarthy, 1,77S. Majority for
Lewis, The total number of votes
recorded was 1878. Of this number
fourteen were declared to have been
spoiled.
Incidents Of the Famous Election
| A few incidents of the polling day
are worth recalling. A ship, on
) board which were four Nationalist
voters, arrived in the Lough In the
:, evening. They took a car to Derry,
arriving just as the doors CT the poll
ing booths were being closed and too
late to record their votes. The Union-
lists figured in all achievement Of an
other kind. They brought out fever
patient from the hospital and sue
, ceeded in polling nim before the ma
ture of his disease was discovered By
, the Nationalists.. Stormy street
r scenes followed the declaration Of the
poll, and Mr.. Lewis, the Unionist
3 candidate distinguished himself by
t addressing a resident magistrate, who
5 was in charge of force of police, as:
3 "Mr. Harvey, you rascal" s2
. The petition against the return Of
I Mr.. Lewis came to trial in the follow
), ing October. The judges were the
r late Justice O'Brien and the late, JUS
tice Murphy. The court sat on Oc-