Evening star., 1921-05-27
EASILY
WIN IN IRELAND
Sir James Craig Gets Record
;. Vote-Sinn Fein Found
er Elected.
BY the Associated Press.

DS lne <NSssNidttu Ffss.
BELFAST. May 27.-Sir James Craig.
premier designate of Ulster. who
polled almost $4,000 votes in the elec-
ton for the northern Irish parlia-
Ment. established a record for the bal
iotirg in Ulster. His nearest competi-
tor was Eamon de Valera, the Irish
republican leader, who received more
than 5000 votes.
The election Of de Valera is in ad
dition to his election to the southern
parliament for County Glare.
Elected While in Prison.
Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sim
Fein organization. was elected to
announced today. He was at the head
of the poll in the joint FermanaGh
and Tyrone division.
Mr.. Griffith was arrested late last
been in Mount Joy prison in Dublin.
A daring attack to release him was
| made by a party of Sim F'einers two
weeks ago but the attacking party
was beaten off.
| InioniSts Exceed Expectations.
! The unionistS have done better in
| the elections than they anticipated.
the Sim FeinerS worse than their
prophets predicted and the national
lists no more than they looked for.
and the unionists are. therefore,, the
only party in Ulster not disappointed.
! All. however. are celebrating-the
unionists because they have won: the
nationalists and Sim Feiners because
! they have made their protest against
! the partition of Ireland and believe
| the protest will have its effect on the
minds OF the people of the world.
The returns will not be complete
until the end of the week. but so far
| as the returns go they show that the
unionists made their greatest gains
in Belfast. where it is expected they
Will have fifteen or sixteen seats. Jo-
seph Devlin is the only nationalist or
| Sim Feiner who will have a seat for
Belfast in the new parliament. if he
decides to sit there.
Socialists Lose Deposit.
The socialists here. as in other con-
| stituencies, lost their deposit. which
they have to forfeit if they do not
receive Il certain number of votes.
| In Antrim things went about as eX-
| pected. the unionists being pretty
certain of six of the seven seats. the
/ other going 10 Devlin.
| Louis Walsh. Sim Feiner. who was
allowed out of the detention camp to
take part in the election, and who
headed the poll in the county council
election. is now nearer the bottom of
| the poll. although there are IL large
number of Sim Feiners in North An
trim and the glens of Antrim. The
unionist. Barbour, headed the list
with some 1900, as compared with
Walsh's less than 5000.
Derry came out as the unionists
predicted. They elected their three
| candidates. or all they had nomi-
mated, thus leaving the other two
seats to Prof John MacNeil, Sim Fein,
and his nationalist running mate.
In County Down, where Sir James
Craig. the Ulster premier designate.
and Eamonn de Valera, republican
leader, were opponents, and where
both were elected, the seats will be
| divided equally between the two Sides
two and two.
Final Returns Delayed.
The count in Armagh and Tyrone is
belated. The percentage of votes
poled was very high in West Bel
fast 1t reached "a and this figure
was equaled in many constituencies,
while nowhere was the percentage be-
low 81. 1t is noted that in many in
stances the candidate whose name
was first on the list, which was ar
| ranged alphabetically, received the
| largest number of votes. For exam
! pie, Sir r. Anderson, unionist, had
nearly 1000 more than Prof. MacNeiI,
in Derry, where the Sim Feiner was
ex pected to head the poll.
The ballots were counted in sealed