As for the North Sligo election, so far as we
can judge, the Parnellite candidate, Alderman Dillon, has even less chance than the Parnellite candidate had in Kilkenny, and will be beaten by a larger majority. Mr. Healy, in spite of the injury to the eye and the inflammation in it, vows that he will go to Sligo, and speak there against Mr. Parnell and Alderman Dillon. Possibly he will, for the inflammation is said to be subsiding, and Mr. Healy is a vindictive politician. But the North Sligo election will apparently go against Mr. Parnell without assistance from Mr. Healy. Mr. Harrington himself could not get a hearing there, and even Mr. Parnell has had difficulties. The political duel at Cork is not yet certain. Both Mr. Parnell and Mr. Maurice Healy profess to be eager to fight it, but Mr. Parnell wishes Mr. Maurice Healy to resign his seat before he himself applies for the Chiltern Hundreds, and Mr. Maurice Healy insists that the resignations must be simultaneous. The dispute on the subject is highly personal, and the language used on both sides is very coarse. No one would suppose that any political principle was at issue. It is a mere slanging-match between opponents well skilled in vituperation.
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