IRISH ELECTIONS

Evening Star, Issue 19663, 16 September 1927, Page 5

IRISH ELECTIONS

VOTING IK PROGRESS

GIG POLL NOT EXPECTED

■STATEMENT BY MR COSGRAVE,

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

LONDON, September 14. To-day the citizens of tho Free State choose 149 members of the Dail from 260 candidates. Tho result, owing to tho Proportional Representation system, will not be known for several days. Mr Cosgravo asks for a clear decision and a bigger poll, but there are no signs thereof, unless a seeming indifference covers a grim determination to vote.

Mr Cosgrave has issued ten points on which he is prepared to meet his opponents with a peace reconciliation as follows: —Voluntary submission to the will of tho people, the balancing of the National Budget, a single disciplined army subject to tho control of Parliament, an efficient police fox-cc, the collection of all arms from | -ma unauthorised to possess them, an independent judiciary, entrance to the Civil Service by merit only, no truce with crime of any description, peace at home and abroad, and the fulfilment of all pledges. In reply to Mr Do' Valera, who argued that tho treaty was accepted on the assumption that it was merely a stopping stone to greater freedom, Mr Blythe said: “If I could turn tho Free State into a republic to-morrow 1 would not lift a finger to do it. Wo have all tho powers and liberties required for the .people of this country.”

POLITICAL FUNDS

LORD BEAVERBROOK’S DENIAL

LONDON, September 14. Lord Beaverbrook n formed the London editor of tho ‘ Irish Independent ’ that there is not a single word of truth in tho statement that he contributed, directly or indirectly, to the Irish political funds.

DAIL RESULTS NEXT WEEK

(British Official News.) Press Association—By Wireless—Copyright.

RUGBY, September 15. (Received September 16, at 11.12 a.m.) The full Irish polling results will not bo available until early next week. There are 152 seats in tho Dail, but three of these have been filled by independent representatives of the universities who were returned unopposed. Some 256 candidates, as against 375 in the Juno elections, are contesting tho remaining seats.