AN ELECTION INCIDENT.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 808, 5 February 1910, Page 4

AN ELECTION INCIDENT.

IN IRELAND

Electors of North Cork took part in aa enjoyable argument on December 26. It consisted of a cavalry charge in comparison with which Balaclava was mere child’s play. There are two candidates in North Cork, and as they are both Nationalists of different kinds, their meetings become disputatious sometimes.

Councillor J. Guiney. an ardent follower of Mr O’Brien, is one of the candidates, and Mr J. C. Flynn, the sitting member, is the other. Councillor Guiney began his meeting on Sunday evening at an advantage. He was on top of a hill. Mr Flynn, M.P., was in a valley. The opportunity was too good to be missed. About seventy of the Guiney men set out on horseback to confer for a few brief moments with the Flynn men.

They were led by a band. This was the only particular in which they departed from the Balaclava precedent, for they had an excellent substitute for the “cannon to the right of them, cannon to the left of them ” in a number of revolvers, which “volleyed and thundered” merrily as they rode on.

A cordon of police was stretched, across the road, but a mere line of dismounted constabulary only added to the enjoyment. With a cheer the Guiney men burst through, and in a few moments they were persuading the supporters of Mr Flynn in the approved Irish style. Mr Flynn had some fortifications in the shape of a waggonette, but this was not enough to shield a tenth of his followers, who included many women and children ; so having the worst of the argument his adherents fled from the bloodstained valley, leaving the gallant seventy victors.