DAIL EIREANN POLL

Northern Advocate, 16 September 1927, Page 5

DAIL EIREANN POLL

PROPORTIONAL SYSTEM USED TEN RECONCILIATION POINTS. ENUNCIATED BY PRESIDENT. (United Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received 9 a.m.) September 15. Today the citizens of the Irish Free State choose 149 members of the Dail Eireann from 260 candidates. The result, owing to the proportional representation system, will not be known for several days. President Cosgvave asks for a clear decision and a bigger poll. There are no signs thereof, unless the seeming indifference covers a grim determination to vote.

President Cosgrave has issued the following 10 points on which he is prepared to meet his opponents with peace and reconciliation.—Voluntary submission to the will of the people; balancing of the national Budget; a single disciplined army, subject to the control of Parliament; an efficient police force; collection of all arms from persons 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 fulfilment of all pledges, national and international.

In reply to Mr De Valera, who argued that the Irish Treaty was accepted on the assumption that it was merely a stepping-stone to greater freedom, Mr Blythe said: .“If I could turn the Free iState into a republic tomorrow I would not lift a‘finger to do it. We have all the powers and liberties required for the people of this country.”—A, and N.Z.

CONTRIBUTION TO FUNDS,

A BASELESS CANARD,

(Received 10 a.m.) LONDON, September 15, Baron Beaverbrook informed the London editor of the “Irish Independent’’ that there was not a single word of truth in the statement that he had contributed directly or indirectly to Irish political funds. —A, and N.Z.’