THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVII, Issue 22, 1 June 1899, Page 10

THE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS.

THE UNIONISTS ROUTED

A MAJORITY" IN ULSTER FOR HOME RULE.

In our last issue we grave the results of the County Council elections, bo tar as they were known when the mail left. Since then later Home filoH have c >me to hand from which we see that the victory of the Nationalists was even more complete than was anticipated. Amongst the mighty ones to go down before the Nuiioualisfc onset at the poll* were the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord Inchiquin, Lord Uunally, Baron de Kobeck (defeated by a Protestant Home Ruler), Lord Langfoid, the Right Hon. Henry Bruen, the Knight of Gliu, Colonel Tottenham, Messrs. Sanders (Charleville), Newman (Mallow), and other leading lights of the great crowd of Unionist landlords. Lord Dunravu. who has ' the gifc of the gab,' wheedled the people of Croom into electing him instead of the labourers' friend, Mr. Coleman. whose extreme Redmondite opinions militated against his success. Lord Monteagle edged in between three Nationalists, who opposed one another on paltry personal grounds, and the same thing occurred elsewhere. Lim a rick has three noble lords on the Couuty Council, the two just mentioned and Lord Emly, who recanted his Unionist opinions recently. Munster has done remarkably well. Out of 146 County Councillers returned 137 are Nationalists. Of the nine Unionists Limerick sends three, Kerry three, North Tipperary two, and Waterford one to the new bodies. In addition, there will be the Grand Jury nominations, 18 for the province. In Roscommon the O'Conor Don is the solitary Unionist. In the Spiddal Division of Gal way the Hon. Martin Morris, son of Lord Morris, was returned on purely local grounds. Cavan has not one Unionist, the most notable of several signal popular triumphs being that of Mr. F. P. Smyth (.""•') OTer Lord Farnham's brother-in-law, Mr. Burrowes ('-'2). There is a clear majority of 1(» Ulster representatives in favour of Home Rule. Taking Ulster by counties, it is found that four Ulster counties have Unionist majorities and three Nationalist, and two have tied, the number of Councillors of either political description in each of the last-named cases being ten. This yields a distinct advantage in favour of the Nationalists in Ulster. So far as (Jal way is concerned, it may be taken for granted that Mr. Martin Morris, son of Lord Morris, of Spiddal, who has already been returned, will be the one representative of the Unionist party upon the Council. The tables compiled from the completed returns — Galway alone being incomplete — are as follows :—: —

ULSTER. Unionists. Nationalists. Donegal ... ... 2 Londonderry ... 1 ! Antrim ... ... li) Down ... ... !•"> Tyrone ... ... 10 Fermanagh. ... 10 Monaghan... ... 1 Armagh ... ... '.' Cavau ... ... U 18 •"> 2 *> 10 10 18 ... 7 20 Total ... ... SO in; MONSTER. Unionists. Nationalists. Limerick ... ... 3 Waterlord... ... 1 Cork ... ... 0 Kerry ... ... 3 Clare ... ... 0 Tipperary (North) ... 2 Tipperary (^Souch) ... 0 17 14 32 18 20 10 20 Total ... ... \) 137 li:in>ti:r. Unionists. Nationalists. Dublin ... ... (i Louth ... ... 1 Meath ... ... 0 Wicklow ... ... 3 Wextord ... ... 2 Kilkenny ... ... 1 Carlow ... ... 1 Queen's County ... 1 King'h County ... 1 Wetalrneath ... 2 Longford ... ... 1 Kildare ... ... '6 14 2.5 21 17 17 17 18 21 20 21 13 18 Total... ... 22 222 CONN AUGHT. Unionists. Nationalists. Lcitrim ... ... 0 Shgo ... ... 0 Mayo ... ... 0 Gal way (incomplete) 1 lloscommon ... 1 18 20 21 5 17 Total ... ... 2 Gross total ... 113 81 53t;