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Show The Nationalists and the Ulster Constituencies. Con-stituencies. The Irish Conservatives have been quite elated by their victories In Ulster. Ul-ster. But their prospects in that province prov-ince are not roseate. No doubt they have induced the Liberal representation representa-tion and have won Mid-Tyrone from the Nationalists. Every sign of popular popu-lar feeling, however, points clearly enough to the gradual decay of Conservatism Con-servatism and the progress of Nationalist National-ist sentiment in Ulster. Mid- Tyrone would have remained a Nationalist seat had the Conservative candidate been opposed only by a single Nationalist. In East Tyrone, Colonel Sanderson's son has been beaten by Mr. T. M. Kettle, Ket-tle, a follower of Mr. Redmond. In South Fermanagh the people of Ma-guire's Ma-guire's territory have declined to supplant sup-plant that veteran Protestant Nationalist, National-ist, Mr. Jordan, by electing Mr. Bat-tersby, Bat-tersby, his Conservative opponent. In North Tyrone Mr. Redmond Barry, K. C, who was successful as a home rule candidate, received Increased support. It consisted, for the most part, according accord-ing to the Belfast News, of the votes of Protestant electors many of them young men recently placed on the registerwho reg-isterwho availed with eager enthusiasm enthusi-asm of the opportunity given them to prove they believed no longer in the humiliating hu-miliating doctrine of Irish inferiority, which is the real doctrine of the misnamed mis-named Unionism preached by the landlords land-lords and their allies. The positions in Ulster held by the Unionists are surely, if slowly, becoming Nationalist. Catholic Catho-lic Times. |