SWEEPING VICTORY.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 85, 10 April 1912, Page 7

SWEEPING VICTORY.

TURKISH ELECTIONS. COMMITTEE OF UNION AND PROGRESS OPPOSITION PRACTICALLY DISAPPEARS.

By Telegraph.— Pi ess Association.— Copj light. (Received April 10, 9.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, 9th April. The Committee of Union and ProgrebS had a sweeping victory at tho election. The Opposition has practically disappeared, what is left being merely irreconcilable sections. • The Union's success was duo to tho stubborn resistance of the Turkish troops in Tripoli neutralising earlier indignation against the Committee, combined with carefully engineered reports of Turkish successes in the war. [The only organised political party in Turkey is the Committee of Union and Progress, which represents the Young Turk Party, and which engineered the revolution of 1909. The Committee, whose headquarters aro at Salonika, is represented »in the Capital by a Parliamentary Committee of 1.60 members. The Parliamentary Committee controls a majority in the Lower House. It sits in secret, and frequently summons Ministers to . explain or defend their policy. In April, 1911, as the outcome of some internal dissensions, the Parliamentary Committee formulated a new programme, providing, amongst other, things, that deputies shall not engage in concession business or similar affairs in private interest, nor accept official posts; that deputies shall not accept places in the Cabinet except as a consequence of a party vote by ballot in which a two-thirds majority of members of the party have supported thoir candidature; that the party shall continue to work for the union of the races of +he Empire, and for the development of commerce, agriculture, industry, and education, in accordance with the needs of the country ; that the paarty shall aim at the development in the Empire of Western civilisation and progress, while respecting public morals and national and religious usages; and that the party shall oppose the intentions and the activity of societies constituted for certain special secret objects.]