THE O'DONOGHUE AT TRALEE.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume I, Issue 32, 6 December 1873, Page 8

THE O'DONOGHUE AT TRALEE.

(Correspondence, Melbourne ' Advocate/) I come now to Tralee. where theie have beon most exciting times since the date of my last letter. After long' threatening, the renegade O Donoghue at last, about a month a.go, ventured to go into the borough and publicly ask his constituents to re-elect him. He came with a small body guard from Killaraey, and, as it appears »ow actually expected that he wouli be woll received. He had a speech prepared for the occasion, which has' been published, and th© first sentences of which thanked the people for their magnificent reception qf him, and pronounced that clay the proudest moment of his life But he had no sooner entered tbe town than the whole population turned out atjainst him, groaned, hissed, and bunted him, with his few imported friends, into his hotel. He appeared at one o< the windows to speak, and waved his hand— as if it were n wand of Progpero-~for Bileace. But from the surging and indignant thousands there came ouly yells, groans, hisses, out-calls, and the deafening; music of two thousand penny whistles. For an hour this thiug went on, not a word of the speaker being heard even by those wh.) were standing close befide him, and ho accordingly gave the manuscript of his address to tbe reporters, forgotttng nt the ssiric time, to strike out tho first few >a n . tences to which I Ijuvs already referred, aud which, vead extremely

comical and ludicrous in the light of his actual reception. A day or two afterwards he attempted to canvass the town, but he met a worse reoeption than even on this occasion. Porter, dead cats, rotten eggs, &c, were thrown at him everywhere, and he had to be guarded from house to house by » troop of armed police ; while amongst the vast crowd of people other members of the force were scattered, armed cap-a-pie. His canvass was, of course, a failure ; nothing could be worse than his reception — worse, that is, for the cause of English domination which he no w represents. What a contrast did the reception of the Home Rule candidate for the bor«ugh, and of the deputation from the Home Rule Association, present a few days afterwards ! For three •r four days the whole town was in a fever of perpetual ovation. But I cannot spend time describing this affair. Let me sum up by declaring that, after having planned and taken every precaution to ec sure a favorable reception of himself, The O'Donoghue has positively and actually been hunted out of the town. There is no doubt now that he was offered some appointment on condition that he got ro-elected, and having been made aware in the most unmistakable manner that he would not be re-elected, he has given up the intention of resigning his seat or taking any appointment for the present. Tralee, however' is still on guard. The popular candidate is always on the spot ready to unfurl the green banner, arid the people are ready at a moment's notice to turn out in his favor as unmistakably as before. It is absolutely certain that no anti-Home Rule candidate would liave any chance ir Traleo at all bus The O'Donoghue, and that he will be defeated by at least 70 votes in a constituency numbering 270.