IRISH POLITICS

Evening Star, Issue 19662, 15 September 1927, Page 5

IRISH POLITICS

EVE OF THE ELEGTIOHS 'MR COSGPAYE’S FINAL ADDRESS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 14. Mr Cosgravc, in a final address before the elections, reminds the electors that on their vote depends not only the life, honor, and prosperity of the Free State, but individual security and comfort. Those who were misguided enough to support the Government’s opponents were condemning tho country, at tho best, to a helpless uncertainty, and at the worst to anarchy and confusion for years to come. Mil DE VALERA’S NEW GUISE. MR CO3G RAVE’S PROMPTS BRIGHT. LONDON, September 14. (Received September 15, at 10.5 a.m.) In view of the cables from Archbishop Mannix commending Mr De Valera’s earlier election policy special interest attaches to Mr De Valera’s new guise of a constitutionalist, especially his virtual abandonment of his June declaration that Ulster must bo punished for persisting in maintaining her independence. Tho most piquant incident of the campaign was furnished by Mr De Valera’s answers to a series of questions submitted by Mr E. P. Culverwell, senior fellow of Trinity College, Di|blin. in the first place, be asked: “Docs punishing Ulster mean an economic wav?”

Mr Do Valera replied that he really meant that the Free Staters must look after Ihoir own interests. (This is regarded ns a veiled hint of tariff action.) Mr Do Valera added that there was no imwer to force 'Ulster in, and there could not lie war against Ulster while England was hacking her. Furthermore, be was more’concerned with Irish interests than with English. They could not force English warships to quit Irish, [torts, but they did not consent to occupation. (In tin’s latter connection Mr Cnlvcrwell had asked would Mr Dc Valera resort to force to expel British warships.) ... The general impression is that Mr Cosgravo’s chances have improved, especially as tho farmers have decreed that their second preferences ho cast in favor of Air Cosgravc’s followers.