THE GALWAY ELECTION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 539, 16 August 1872, Page 3

THE GALWAY ELECTION.

Mr. Justice Keogh has read the Irish priesthood a severe lesson. The Gidway election was won for Captain Nolan by a combination of the Catholi clergy acti g on behalf of denominational education with the Home Rulers, and this combination was carried one with a degree of violence peculiar to the sister isle, and which may jus'ly b; describe! as “an organized attempt to defeat the free f ancliise of the electors.” The rioters in this instance have overreached themselves. No less than sme fifty or sixty priests, with the well-known Archbishop ofTuam at their head, are convicted by Judge Keogh of “ spiritual int midatina,” and, as aYesult, Captain Nolan has been unseated, and worse still, the seat, subject to a point of law to be decided in the Court of Common Pleas, has been awarded to his opponent. Few people will deny that th-.- decision of the- Irish judge, hiuis If a member of the Romish Church, is fully warranted by the evidence, although some perhaps may wish that the decision had been couched in colder and more strictly judicial language. But it whuld be still more satisfactory if we could believe’ that the violence and intimidation com-* plained of were really needed for the success of the candidate, and that a union of priests and Home rulers cauhot after all "hurry aii Irish constituency by perfectly legitimate means against the influence of popular landlords. - — Graphic.