Another Galway landlord was ranging through groups of men who turned their backs on him, and hid behind each other, his tenants4, personal friends all of them, who, for the first time on record, had voted in opposition to his wishes.
"Every one of them!" he said, while the atmosphere that surrounds suffering and strong emotion made itself felt, "all but two or three. They have all gone against me."
It was a memorable5 election, marking the new departure in Irish politics, and it broke the hearts and practically ended the lives of two at least of the Galway landlords. Till that time the landlords took their tenants to the poll en masse; thenceforward they were to advance under the banner of the Church.
The epoch6 that here found its close was memorable, too, in its way. It held, far back in it, the brave days when the Galway elections lasted for a month, and the actual voting for a week, days to which the pages of Lever bear witness. As that week of delightful7 warfare8 strove on the electors became more fastidious about their drinks, and would accept nothing less aristocratic than mulled port and claret. These restoratives were brewed9 in fish-kettles on the big fireplaces of the ballroom10 in Kilroy's hotel, an agreeable incident, not, we think, commemorated12 by Lever.
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Twenty years afterwards a Galway village lay mute in the sunshine, drowsy13 with respectability, assertive14 of rectitude in every slant15 of its slate16 roofs. To view it thus from the waste altitudes of the moor17 above it, on a Sunday morning of July, with the call of a cock straining up through the silence, was to endue18 it with all the stillness and strictness of the day itself, even to credit it with a Presbyterian rigour of Sabbaticism that was at variance19 with the traditions of the County Galway. Down on its own level, and approaching it through the aisle20 of shade that lay between broken demesne21 walls and under the lofty embrace of demesne trees, the glare of its whitewash22 closed the vista23 blatantly24, and with a self-righteousness that suppressed the romantic as a thing of libertine25 irrelevance26. Therefore, to an eye accustomed, during many Sundays, to the recognition of the barren street, with its strings27 of ducks in moody28 reverie about the unremunerative gutters29, and its dogs asleep outside the closed doors, it was startling beyond the merit of the occasion to be confronted with a staring crowd of people that filled the street loosely from end to end. Every face was turned towards the new-comer, till the whole slope of the hill was flushed with them; then it darkened, as the people realised that nothing worthy30 of further notice was occurring, and turned their heads again towards Galway.
The crowd was a representative one. Wizened31 old men in swallow-tailed coats and knee-breeches, degenerate32 youth in check suits and pot-hats, tanned women in deep-hooded cloaks, girls with shawls over their heads, freckled33 and ubiquitous children—all smelling heavily of turf smoke, some modernised with the master smell of hair-oil. The anti-Parnellite candidate was expected to arrive at any moment from Galway, to address those who had come to the village for Mass; and though the people had now been out of chapel34 for an hour there seemed to be no wish to disperse35, or any sign of impatience36. They even appeared to be enjoying themselves as thoroughly37 as was compatible with the fact that the public-houses had not yet been opened. Anything so fascinating as a little political excitement was worth waiting for, especially while Providence38 was liberal of fresh arrivals on outside cars, and invention failed not of the personal allusion39 wherewith to greet them; so that time passed healthfully, and expectation was no more than pleasantly ripe when outposts on the hill heralded40 at length the approach of the candidate.
A blended roar of execration41 and encouragement went out to meet him—a greeting sustained on every note of the human compass in a savagely42 inarticulate mass of discord43. He seemed to cleave44 his way through it as he passed, his figure moving pompously45 along on its car above the shoulders of the people, in black coat and white waistcoat, while a deft46 hand manipulated a tall hat in recognition of every crumb47 of welcome. He passed on down a by-road towards the chapel, followed by a few dozen people, and by the booing and hooting49 of the rest of the assemblage. Clearly the materials for the meeting were elsewhere.
It was not far to the chapel, four hundred yards or thereabouts of dusty road, that lay hot and quiet between loose stone walls, dropping to a hollow and rising again to the low height where stood the unmistakable building that is the heart and fountain of parish politics, its plaster and whitewash veiled a little by the kindly50 churchyard trees, and the stone cross on its gable standing51 strong and keen under the melting sky.
On nearing the churchyard the candidate's voice was audible through the trees in fluent, opening sentences, each point duly weighted with a "Hee'rr, hee'rr!" as businesslike as the "Amen" of the parish clerk. His car was waiting outside in the shade, and the carman, who was perhaps a little blasé in the matter of speeches, was smoking an unemotional pipe beside it.
"Indeed, you may say the town of Galway is in a quare way," he said, putting his hand to a cheek that was just perceptibly more purple than the other. "Look at meself, the figure I am, that wasn't spakin' a word to a Christhian, good nor bad, and lasht night a fishwoman comes down to me in the sthreet this ways"—squaring his elbows and strutting—"'Hi for Lynch!' says she, hittin' me a puck in the jaw52 with her skib (basket). The Lord save us! 'tis hardly I ran from her before she had the town gethered afther her. Begob, the women's the most that'd frighten ye!"
At the churchyard gate a couple of long-tailed colts were tied up, saddle-horses evidently, but bare-backed, and bridled53 with a halter, their bodies bloated with summer grass out of all proportion to their long legs, and their countrified ears pricking54 occasionally at the cheers that did not by the blink of an eyelid55 affect the doze48 of the Galway car-horse. The company inside was a small one as compared with that in the street, and had in it a much larger proportion of women and old men, to which was perhaps due the superior calm of the proceedings57. The churchyard was a spacious58 one, depressingly roomy indeed for the present occasion, for which any suburban59 back garden would have sufficed. Most of the audience had mounted on the tombstones, great slabs60 of limestone61 that formed the lids of the boxes placed over the more distinguished62 dead, blackish grey, and ringing under the hobnailed-boots like metal. The candidate stood on the highest tombstone, and all around him leaned and clung these strange groups of men and women, looking like the wooded islands in the lake close by; while between them the quiet background of the graveyard63 was visible, with its bent64 and musing65 trees, and array of low head-stones gazing blindly at the concourse.
The bald top of the candidate's head formed the focus-point of the gathering66, giving back the sun's glare like glass as it swung and jerked with the flow of oratory67, and beside it the immense shovel-hat of the old priest moved occasionally in accord, italicising for the benefit of the flock such phrases as seemed especially edifying68. The curate was nowhere to be seen; rumour69 said that his political theories were not formed on those of his superior. A remembrance recurred70 of meeting, that morning, a severely71 contemplative young priest, walking alone and away from the village, with the green flicker72 of the leaves overhead playing strangely across the gloom of his sallow face.
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The candidate's speech seemed, indeed, to require a little driving home. It was, for the most part, an explanation to his constituents73 of the reasons that made it necessary for him to forego the happiness of acquainting himself with them in any intimate degree. He was, he said, in his temperately74 florid manner, closely connected with a large firm in England and, deplorable to relate, his income depended on his living in the bosom75 of the English firm. "Sure we know that—we know that!" yelled the half-dozen most chosen supporters, crushing precariously76 round the candidate on the edge of the tombstone platform, with their wild, combative77 faces pressing, all on fire, towards him. Perhaps he might yet be roused to say the right things about the rival candidate, the things that would wring78 forth79 a cheer in reply to those distant ones that came maddeningly at intervals80 from the crowd in the street.
But the speaker kept his eloquence81 well in hand, confining himself to such blind alleys82 of assertion as the remarkable83 success of his own career, his confidence that his constituents would re-elect him, and his desire to benefit them in some immeasurable way if they did so. A permissive cynicism curved the wrinkles on the faces of the old men who stood on the grassy84 graves behind him, with their hands under their coat-tails, and their grizzled chins sunk in their shirt-collars; they knew how they were going to vote, and their own powers (matured in the sale of many a heifer and rood of bog) of taking a part and sustaining it, with a perfectness that would deceive the elect, made them sceptical as to the ends of speech-making. The women were tittering and whispering under their shawls; but were certainly impressed by the candidate's Sunday attire85, his well-kept grey moustache, and his affable way of saying "ladies and gentlemen" every now and then.
The speech ambled86 to its close, through a peroration87 of an uncertain conversational88 tone, assisted at critical points by one or other of the supporters, who would ungovernably supply the needed word out of the bursting fulness of his own repertoire89. It was the sole outlet90 for their enthusiasm, except for the cheer that caught at the ravelled edge of the final sentence, as the candidate put on his hat and bowed himself from the tombstone.
"Be prayin' for the meetin', gerrls," said the old priest, leading the way to the vestry, with rusty91 skirts floating widely. The door closed on him and his protégé, the clumps92 on the tombstones fell apart, mingling93 in a laughing and talking stream towards the churchyard gate, and the prayers of the young ladies were apparently94 deferred95 to a more convenient season.
The chapel door stood open, showing the barren squareness of the interior; a zinc96 tub, half-full of Holy-water, stood in the porch, with the flags all round it wet from the splash of dipping hands; the altar gleamed gaudily97 at the further end; and a tall confession-box stood solitary98 in the seatless expanse of floor, fraught99 with the inseparable mystery and suggestiveness of its kind, and holding within its curtained rails the knowledge of what things are counted for unrighteousness in that twilight100 place, the conscience of the Western peasant. The air inside was warm, and still laden101 with the smell of frieze102 coats and stale turf smoke; but, except for this furnishing, the blankness was complete. Sunday and its Mass were over and done with for a week, and priest and congregation were striving factors in the carnal toils103 of election.
The people dispersed104 slowly, discussing the absorbing topic of the day, some in their native tongue, but for the most part in English, so pronounced as to be in the distance scarcely distinguishable from the liquid and guttural flow of Galway Irish.
"A MAN MUST WOTE THE WAY HIS PRIEST AND BISHOP'LL TELL HIM"
"A MAN MUST WOTE THE WAY HIS PRIEST AND BISHOP'LL TELL HIM"
"Sure, a man must wote the way his priest and bishop'll tell him," says a tall supporter, with the air of a person repeating a truism.
"Well, meself'd say," says another, whose handsome eyes shone in the shadow of his soft felt hat, while his hands helped out his words with picturesque105 gesture, "the man I'd have a wish for to wote for him, is the man that'd rise out o' his bed in the night and give hay and oats to yer horse, and yerself fotever ye'd ax, when any one else'd leshen (listen) in their bed if ye were battherin' there till mornin'."
This argument referred to the well-known good nature of the Parnellite candidate, a general dealer106 and publican in a neighbouring village.
"Well, indeed, he's no scholar, I suppose," says a young fellow, still in reference to the Parnellite. "He has no learnin' nor way of spakin' no more than meself, but becripes! he's a fine sthrong man, and he'll be well able to fight and box in Parliament."
This was said in entire good faith, and was listened to with respect.
"Come on back the road!" bawls107 a supporter, beckoning108 authoritatively109 from the distance, "let yees come on now, the whole o' yee, the way we'd be before the car and it going up!"
The reason for this manoeuvre110 was presently apparent, on returning to the village street. As the candidate's car left the chapel the Parnellite crowd thronged111 the corner by which it must pass; a battery of threatening faces, waiting with unknown purpose; a gauntlet to run or to run away from. The car came slowly up the hill, preceded by a party of supporters; the candidate on one side, looking anxious the old priest on the other, bare-headed, and looking still more anxious, but waving his hand as if in greeting, while the interwoven yells became a thrilling mass of sound.
It was well for the candidate that his companion was one of the oldest and most popular of the Galway priests. That prestige had shielded the churchyard meeting from disturbance112, and but for its influence now the future M.P. might have returned to England with an appearance not advantageous113 to the firm of which he was a member. A forest of clenched114 fists and sticks seemed to leap up towards him, the scream of hatred115 never took breath, and there was entreaty116 in the face of the priest as his wrinkled hands waved repressively above the tumult117. There was a long moment of uncertainty118, but in the next the car was through in safety, and was gone in the twinkling of an eye, the supporters running in its wake till the last waving gleam of the candidate's silk hat had been garnered119.
It was then that things began to look, to an Irish eye, most promising120 and attractive. The supporters turned, formed into a solid body of perhaps forty men and boys, and marched with inimitable swagger straight back into the crowd, all together, in a kind of chant, shouting, "To hell with ——!" (the rival candidate) at the utmost strength of their lungs. The theme was a simple one, but magnificently vocalised, and was instantly replied to in the tu quoque manner by the opposite party. Sticks went up, the women rushed outwards121 for safety, looking, with their floating shawls, like a flock of frightened turkeys; and at this point the four constabulary men who represented that force made themselves felt. The dangerous moment yielded easily and unresentfully to these judicious122 hands, and the excitement sputtered123 out in a little bragging124 and hustling125, without so much as a black eye to commemorate11 it. In half an hour the ducks were again waddling126 in line along the empty street, and a muffled127 hum proceeding56 from the shuttered public houses, told that the bona fide travellers had at length reached their journey's end. It was a lamentable128 falling off from the days of the fish kettles and the mulled port of Kilroy's Hotel.
The episode had expired in the way that might have been expected, and was at best an indeterminate, shapeless thing, full of unripe129 revolt that it was too childish to express. But that moment when the little flame first flickers130 in the gorse, feeling its naked way among the thorns and affluent131 blossom, has a wonder of birth in it that is forgotten when the blazing hillside jars the noonday, and the smoke rolls monotonously132 from strongholds of conflagration133.
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