FREE STATE ELECTIONS.

Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15321, 23 August 1923, Page 5

FREE STATE ELECTIONS.

TURBULENT SCENES.

CANDIDATES PELTED WTTH 'EGGS,

MR COSGRAVE'S PLAIN - SPEECH.

Australian and N.Z. Cabte Assa* ! Received August 23, 11.30 ajm. *1 ; LONDON, August 22- 1 While the Irish elections generally are proceeding quietly, there is, \

ever, a turbulent element in some | constituencies, where eggs, which bat 1 for the dock strike could 'have been on the English market, were used with devastating effect. In County Wexford a flying squad of youths follow the Government, Farmer and Labour candidates', pelting Ihem with eggs and stones. Mr Murphy, head of the Farmers' organisation,- had an ordeal at Ramsgrange, where eggs covered him from head to foot.'

Among the Republican speakers the women are the most angry. Miss Mary MacSwiney told a Cork audience all they had to do to ruin English trade was to stand together and defy England. Such talk is not convincing even to extremists. Mr Cosgrave, replying to an interrupter at Castlecomer, said: "We executed only when every appeal to reason failed. Make no mistake, I will do it again if necessary. I never took strong action unless circumstances demanded it." ,