IRISH ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 9

IRISH ELECTIONS

DECISIVE RESULT HOPED FOR COUNTRY TIRED OF POLITICS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 12. “Rainbow chasers and flappers, as tire Irish describe vague idealists and young unthinking voters, mav be impressed by Mr Do Valera’s promise of a ijew heaven on earth and the ridiculous fable that tire British Imperialists are financially supporting My Cosgrave.” says the Irish correspondent of ‘The Times,’ “but the Laboritea and the Redmondites have lost prestige through their support of Mr De Valera. Two minor parties hostile to the Government have been eliminated. “Mr De Valera’s casuistry over the oath has causer! many defections, and he is denounced from many pulpits. If there is a 60 per cent, poll Mr Cosgrave is ensured of a substantial victory, but if, owing to the harvest, the electorates are apathetic, and there is only a _so_per cent, poll, the Government majority may he narrow. It Is hoped that the result will he decisive, because the Free Stsite is tired of the political crisis, and wflnts to settle down to business.

“Mr Cosgrave chiefly desires a respite from high politics to enable him to tackle urgent economical problems, notably high taxation and lack of c ,pital from which industry is suffering, resulting in much unemployment in Dublin. Cork, and other big towns. With tho high east of living agriculture also depressed, owing to low prices and hick of organisation, giving Denmark and New Zealand the advantage in tho British market. “The old doctrine of hatred and distrust of England has lost, its appeal, the majority realising tho folly of quarrelling with Britain, with whom 84 per cent, of tlie trade is carried on.’’— ‘The Times.’ MR COSGRAVE CONFIDENT. LONDON. September 12. With the Free State polling on Thursday, interest in tho elections \s increasing, hut is by no means intense, wlfh few of the scenes usually associated with Irish hustings. “Our prospects of success could nob he brighter.” said Mr Cosgrove to the ‘ Daily Express ’ correspondent at Cork, but whilt* it is not safe To prophesy in Irish politics, London correspondents generally do not anticipate a clear majority of Cosgravinns over all other parlies; some sort of coalition is regarded as inevitable. Some estimates suggest that Mr Cosgrave will win ten to twelve extra seats, and this, with the aid of tho Farmers and the Independents, would give a fair working majority.