The O'Conor Don had the courage to attempt a contest
at Wex- ford,—the borough for which Mr. Healy sat before his election for Monaghan,—bat was beaten on Tuesday by a majority of 181, 307 voting for Mr. W. H. K. Redmond, and only 126 for the O'Conor Don. At the general election, however, the Liberal was beaten by a still greater majority, the Home-rule candidate having obtained a majority of 197. The crowd on the day of election was a very angry one, and the police bad to fix their bayonets ; whereupon the crowd charged them, in spite of their fixed bayonets, and as many as thirty persons in the crowd are said to have received bayonet wounds. That is a nasty and very significant gauge of the violence of Irish feeling against the present Government. The O'Conor Don is an Irishman of the highest standing and character, a Catholic and a Celt, and as Liberal as any sincere adherent of the Union can be; yet the mob were so infuriated with his candidature as to invite bayonet wounds, the last thing an ordinary mob will riik.
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