The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-30
ULSTER ELECTION
WILL DECIDE It
Home Rule Question ls Behind Every
Ballot Being Cast by
the Voters Of the
Province.
SEAT IN PARLIAMENT
Catholic and Protestant Take Sides
and the Result Of CONTEXT Is
Awaited With
interest.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
Home Rule In Nutshell.
[By John Redmond, leader of the
Irish Nationalists in the House of
Commons.l
What we mean by home rule Is
the continuous government Of Ireland
according to Irish ideas carried out
by Irish ministers responsible to the
Irish people servants Of the crown,
but not holding Office at the will Of
parliament at Westminster.
I'VE ask that laws relating to ire
land alone shall be made by a popu-
larly elected assembly sitting In Ire
land, having leisure to deal with the
necessities OF the case and possessing
frs. hand knowledge Of them; and
that responsibility for the administra-
tion Of Ireland shall be confined to a
ministry chosen by Ireland and going
out, Of office when Irish public senti-
ment demands a change"
LONDONDERRY. ireland, Jan. 80.
With home rule for Ireland, the
paramount issue In British politics,
ending at Westminster, the most in
teresting and closely contested by
4 election ever held here, is being
fought out today. The result of the
balloting will decide the rival claims
! of the control Of the province of Uls-
Itch made by ahe natfona1ists (for
home rule), and the unionists against
) home rule).
Although Ulster is generally spok-
en- Of as against home rule, the union
lists hold only seventeen OF its parlia-
mentary seats, while the nationists
i hold sixteen. The unionists con.rol-
ed seventeen constituencies, though
j they have had but sixteen members
since the recent death OF the duke OF
Abercorn His son, the marquis of
j Hamilton was the unionist member
for Londonderry, but he was COM
PEELED to succeed to the dukedom,
which took him out of the commons
and into seat In the house of lords.
The nationalists have been making
1 desperate efforts to capture this seat,
which would give Ulster a home rule
: majority and when the voting began
; today it appeared that they had ex-
cellent chances for success
The voters of Londonderry number
somewhat under five thousand They
have always been nearly equally di-
yided between the Roman Catholic
and protestan. churches and generally
speaking the former means home rule
and the latter opposition to home rule.
Davir C. Hogg, the nationalist can
didate today is a strong home rule
t advocate and a protestant. He hoped
to get some of the anti-Catholic votes
1 and was sure of all the Catholic home
rule people. Hon. H. A. Peckenham
is the unionist candidate.
May Vote Tonight.
LONDON, Jan 30.-Vote on the
t home rule bill, passed by the house
: of commons, was expected in the
3 house of lords late tonight when the
4 last of the speakers will have finished
/ their debates.
i After a recess of one day, speaking
q on the measure was resumed this
afternoon. AS It was foregone con
S clusion that the lords would defeat
S the measure and as it was equally Ger
Y tain that their rejection would be
s impotent to prevent the enactment o.
home rule, there was not much of 9
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