The Municipality of Cork has elected a Parnellite to the•
office of Mayor by a junction of the Conservatives with the Parnellites. The Council contains twenty-two Anti-Parnellites,. fifteen Parnellites, and seventeen Conservatives. Alderman Roche, the Parnellite candidate, polled thirty-one votes, or only one vote less than the united strength of the Conserva- tives and Parnellites. The Anti-Parnellite candidate, Coun- cillor Dunn, received twenty-three votes, obtaining apparently a single Conservative vote. Sir John Scott, who would have been the Conservative candidate, if the party had had any chance of returning him, openly stated the view of the Conservatives, that they would far rather trust themselves to the mercies of the in- dependent Parnellites, than they would to those of the allies of the Gladstonians. We cannot say that we understand that view, except on the principle that the Parnellite Party has no chance of power, while the Anti-Parnellite Party has. If the
Parnellites were as strong as the Anti-Parnellites, they would be, in our opinion, even more formidable. We do not under- stand how it could be otherwise,—the Anti-Parnellites being at least willing to concede something to their English allies, and the Parnellites repudiating entirely any notion of the kind.
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