cessary for the persons whose votes were questioned to come
into Court. Now, there is the rub. The objector calculates that some
will not come, for he knows how hard it is to get them to come. Then
they stuff the register with bogus names. They put down dozens of
people who don't exist, with the object of polling somebody for
them--if any of them should escape the scrutiny of the opposite
party--and with the further object of causing the Unionist party
expense and loss of time. For there is a stamp duty of threepence to
be paid for every objection, and then the Loyalist lawyer and his
staff are kept at work for six weeks, instead of a fortnight or three
weeks, which should be the outside time taken. Then the annoyance and
loss of time to the industrious Unionist voters, who have to leave
their work. This does not hurt the opposite party, who have nothing
else to do, and who in these wrangling affairs are in their native
element, thoroughly enjoying themselves. What makes the work so hard
for the Loyalist lawyer is the fact that our folks are all for
business and look upon politics as a nuisance, while the other side
make politics the principal business of their lives. They are
tremendously energetic in this, but wonderfully supine in everything
else. In politics they spare neither time nor money, nor (for the
matter of that) swearing. The lying that goes on in the Registry Court
would astonish Englishmen. The Papist party themselves admit that they
are awful liars, but they laugh it off, and plead that all is fair in
love and war.

"The priest sits in the Revision Court all day long. In these Revision
Courts every priest is an agent of the Separatist party. They watch
the inspectors and witnesses, keeping a keen eye on those who do not
swear hard enough, ready to reward or censure, as the case may be.
Every Sunday the people are instructed from the altar as to their
political action. This eternal elbowing-on keeps them up to their
work, as well as the promises of the good things to come. Our folks
are never worked up. That makes it very hard for us. They came up
pretty well last time, though. But when one side is all for business,
and the other side all for politics, the business folks are
handicapped.

"The Nationalists ran John Dillon on one occasion. We smashed him up.
No respectable constituency would ever return any of his class, and we
resented the attempt to couple us with a man of that stamp. He was
beaten by