Mr. W. O'Brien was very vehement, unscrupulous, and at the
close of his speech, effective. He calmly maintained that the tears shed over Norah Fitzmaurice are crocodile tears, and that there is no more connection between the Kerry murders and the "Plan of Campaign," than between a murder in the New Cut and the debates in the House of Commons. He deliberately ignored the fact that Norah Fitzmaurice's father was boycotted by the National League -for holding to his farm, that he was murdered because he was boycotted, and that his daughter was boycotted for bringing the murderers to justice. At the close of his speech, he taunted the Govern.
ment with the victory that they were going to win by the aid of the Liberal Unionists,—mere criminals in a condemned cell, he called them,—who, of course, would do all in their power to prolong their miserable political lives.
