Irish Parties Align for Battle
FRANTIC GROUPING COSGRAVE’S CHANCES By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Reed. 11.50 a.m. LONDON, Friday. Free State nominations close on Saturday, when the shortest and most bitter election campaign in Ireland’s history begins. Parties are frantically grouping themselves with a view to avoidance of any waste voting power, a necessary action under proportional representation. Mr. W. T. Cosgrave, President, has succeeded in reducing the number of independent candidates, but the Farmers’ Party, which had five seats in the late Dail, refused to amalgamate with Mr Cosgrave, but are advising their supporters to give second preference to Cosgraveites. The Ministerialists will probably nominate 100, the Farmers’ Party 28, and De Valeraites SO. The Labour Party, which admittedly is financially weak, is reducing its nominations. Mr. Thomas Johnson, labour leader, emphatically denies that Labour is in anywise allied with the De Valeraites. On the whole, no striking turnover of votes is expected. The two Dublin Conservative forecasts give Mr. Cosgrave a 50-50 share* of the seats, which will mean only the narrowest margin of safety.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 139, 2 September 1927, Page 1
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