ELECTION IN THE FREE STATE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19109, 19 September 1927, Page 9

ELECTION IN THE FREE STATE.

jNOtHBB DEADLOCK PROBABLE. 3IAV? RETURNS TO COME. fc Or CABLE —PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT). iTTtlc Wn3 K-Z * AKD Bra CABLE.) "" (Eeceivcd Scptcmbfer IStli, 3.5 p.m.) LONDON, September 17. Itlo newspapers predict tliat the Free gtato election will result in another , jeidlock. i, progress report shows the position , Jtho Parties to be as follows:- : government Parties — > Mr Cosgrave's Party ..39 Independents , .. 11 '■ Farmers' Party .. 3. Total • 53 ) Opposition Parties—- . Republicans •.. 37 t- A Labour ,• • 9 , National League .. 2 i". 1 ' . Independent Labour .. 1 U (!• Total .. 49 '■i ; >Hrde Valera was elected fpr "Slare. m'Ht,. Baxter, .Leader of the Farmejs' - Party, was defeated, in County Cavan. Cosgrave headed the poll iri Cork the former Lord Mayor, Mr French, ■ bpijig sefcblia. , Thomas Johnson, Leaider of the iftboiir Partj-j was defeated in Dublin Mmoty. .• election fight at Strabane between Importers of.the FiShna-Fail the Ibgrave Party resulted in thfeo being Isfts? ting gferiously. , | eiifrahj frho waS Wbiiftdbd in the has Binco died. Michael McGeen fex-afbiy chaplain, and Jdhn Mcleyj i Free State iieiiietiantj have irrested. ion Horgan, a former Brigadieri\ iii the Natibrial Arihj', haa been oil al chdrgb of inciting to r iri a Bpeebh at a Republican 'gly votefs Spoiled their papers by g. their views on them. Worth .Dublinite erased thb cani* names 'and encbee.d a photoof the Prince of Wales, inscribed Bless Him:?' . _ tfiet .wrote: "God keep us from ifeVil BTk.''' . ( : [f tlbinahdea the tfeturh of Bfitish iment. ,• r . North Dubliii Gehlid rnmeiltj, Mr Alfred ,PJrii6 (lri.s lent),, and Jati6s iarkjn (liilent Mbotii) Were 3buth Dublin . |seVeE Mi lass (Mf do f Dr; Hennessy and Mr J: W; ;t fGovernment) were elected. BlytHs( Miiiisigf fjtf Mjiafiisij le poll in ;; ; : ink Aiken (Mr So Yalera'i itenant) topped ,the list in outh, displacing the Ministerted in June. i W. RedmondJwasLblefeted ioi 1, where two de ValferMtea arid terialist were also returned, ididates comprised the follb#nment ■ .. §7 a Fail .. 88 ia] League .. 6 jriderit .. 31 , CK AND NECK RACfi. ajjd ir.i. cabLe A&sociATioir.) September i9tii, 12.20 a.m.) . LONfebN, September 18. urns are comirig in remarkfj But the election seems te loped into a neck-and-neck en the two great, fatties, <deIftlt thai thip will mean a 6i the libpeless tahglb bS-

figures indicate that tlie iinlikbly tb gbt the 61 which irotild givb it '& ■ffijglfrall happen is the casS bf anis uncertain, btif; all th 6 possiblb. Mr Cfosgrav^e'S. appeal of Mr jinkfc, has coriti&iifed to happen, HUJwpm'Btjirig the idihost total abwhich even sufHCTH|||!*?ijirsrise of the defeats of and Baxter and the wiri Slxpr 6^says eveii electors are bewildefHBffg&.&Mple&ty fit proportional is fchbWn id be '■HRPtiNdd, Minister fbr Dtj&iiclj, ■§£&s£ lor Dubliii County. ■wg|pgfe*tfoo heaflfed the poll dt of itiehdel Gollilis, Mrs was elected foi ebrt&iiißT}. .CttW.. A.BSOCIATIO*;) Gazette" says the attempt to reopeii "Bri, tli§ basis df a Mffiipatta'a flfefcte to BHtain. dtl§ is itfe pfeexperts in Russia i?i. * 8 hotter to restore . And so enable Library' is the 6d Docket editions New titles conlatest ■ being Mit-