The Daily Telegraph has collected a pleasing anthology of personalities
from the utterances of the Nationalist and Independent Nationalist candidates. When Mr. Roche, Mr. Maurice Healy's opponent at Cork, was suffering from a. cold, Mr. Healy quietly observed : " You know there's nothing for a cold like a good mustard-plaster, and please God, he will get a splendid one on Tuesday." Having thus dealt with Mr. Roche, Mr. Healy passed to Mr. Willie Redmond :—
" Mr. Roche, poor fellow, has a cold—(laughter)—but it is a raging fever poor Mr. Redmond has. It takes two men to hold him at present, and I am told his raving in his delirium is pitiable to hear. The poor fellow, can you ima,gin3 the delusions be ha3 to-night ? He thinks he is going to be Member for Cork next Tuesday—(laughter)—and he tells everybody about him, the poor man, the splendid things he is going to do when he is Member for Cork. We had a saying long ago, you know, that such a thing would happen when the pigs begin to fly, and I think that is the time when poor Mr. Willie Redmond is likely to be Member for Cork."
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