THE O'CONOR SCANDAL.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 984, 2 July 1872, Page 2

THE O'CONOR SCANDAL.

Sib, —Permit me through the medium of your columns, to urge upon my fellow-electors, the necessity, as they value their political reputation, of no longer delaying to take action in this matter. For what are we waiting ? The evidence already extant as to Mr O'Conor's having betrayed the trust reposed in him by this constituency is overwhelming. He has had an opportunity of refuting the charge, and has not even attempted to meet the question as between himself and us. This Eequisition to the General Assembly, whatever may be its ob. ject or result, can never alter the judgment, which each whohasheard the case, must have already pronounced upon it. By that Court which holds its secret sittings in every human breast; even in Mr O'Conor's, (for we have statutory evidence that he waa once arraigned before himself) and which takes cognisance of our own and others actions' should his duct be judged, and, if condemned, then openly be repudiated by every man who would feel shame at the semblance of complicity with such a scandal, as the recent land purchase and its accessaries. Silence, which is practical condonation, will tinge each name on the Electoral Koll of tbisj District, with the stain which already blots that of its member. Mr O'Conor will probably refuse to free us from the connection by virtue of which he styles himself, M.P.C. and M.H.R. for the Duller; but we owe; it to ourselves to demand it. The constituency which does not protest against such an association, deserves disfranchisement, or, if there be a greater political degradation, to; have its present, for its pfTpetual representative. . fy I am, Sir, * Tour's &c, An Electob. Westport, July Ist, 1872.