The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1917-07-13
FREEING SINN
FEIN FOLLY
This the Opinion Now Ex-
pressed by the London
Newspapers
BASE VIEWS ON EAST
CLARE ELECTION
Are Alarmed Over the Posi-
ton of the National
list Party

London, July l3.-The election of Ed.
ward de Valera as member of Parliament
for East Glare, the third Sim Feiner To
be returned to Parliament of late, is
treated as an event of great political con
sequence by the morning newspapers,
which devoted considerable space to the
incident yesterday. The tendency of the
Unionist press, rejecting their advices
from Belfast and Dublin, is to emphasize
what it always eontended-the folly of
the government in liberating Sim Fein
prisoners and refraining to deal with
revolutionary talk and acts as they
would be dealt with in England. These
papers regard the situation as gravely
threatening, for they see nothing in the
Sim Fein movement but rebellion
The Liberal press also is alarmed, but
rather for the position of the official Ma
tionalist party and for the prospect for
the esta blishment of constitutional home
rule One opinion seems common to all
parties, namely, that the prospect of the
convention in Ireland to consider home
rule is seriously impaired il not entirely
doomed.
Another view is that the election is an
irreparable disaster for the Irish Nation
alist party, which, many Irish people
complain, held the country for years in
the dead hand of rigid machine policy.
The Sim Fein movement is regarded
discomfort and vehement presentment OF
a long course OF administrative folly, in
dicating rather lack of confidence with
present parliamentary methods than
revolutionary tendency, and in this re.
spect reassembling a state OF mind which
often leads Prussian electors, who them
selves are not at all Socialists, to sup
port Socialist candidates at the polls
The Telegraph's parliamentary report |
err says all the Irish sections OF the House |
Of Commons regard the result as vir-
tually death blow to the Nationalist |
end of constitutional agita.
lion and the beginning of republicanism.
It is declared that no Nationalist seat
outside OF Dublin is now safe.
Timothy Healy, NJ. p, frankly graft
led. says the English people are mistak-
N about the Sim Feiners. They are
Tot rabid extremists, but devoted ideal.
SITS, he holds.
Commenting on the East Clare election
Il Sim Feiner TO Parliament, the Irish
Independent says: Five out OF every six
lectors who supported the victor did so
'ut of sheer disgust for the cringing,
rawling policy OF the Irish party and
he laundering tactics of their leaders"
The Irish Times considers that East
1are voted for a program of revolution.
The Sim Fem policy so far has de-
eloped on destruction and bitterness
regnant with menace to the peace of
reland, yet this policy triumphed over
he memory of devoted soldier Major
William Redmondl and swept the Ma.
ionalists out of seat held without OPP
osition for 20 years" says the Irish
lines.
The Dublin Express says the victory is
he most portentous thing in modern
-ish political history. at is clear" the
aper says, 'that the Nationalists can
D little at convention but record their
ous opinions"
The Chronicle says the Sim Feiners
ceive enormous sums of money from
,e United States much of ID doubtless
ON German sources, which enables
lem to conduct extensive propaganda.
The local correspondent at Ennis
totes Prof. De Valera az saying he does
1t intend to take his seat in the House
Commons.