Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-05-25
VOTES CAST IN
ULSTER BEING
COUNTED TODAY
Belfast Back to Normal Aft
er Night Of Tense Excite
J, ment Over Election
Police Attention Necessary ,
to Stop Roting in Some
Sectioas
tBy The Associated Prass.S

tBy The Associated Press.}
Belfast, May z5.-(By the Ascot
Ased Press.)-Wholesale charges uf
intimidation and personation during
the balloung in Ulster for members Of
the northern Irish parliament are be-
ing made by both the Nationalists and
Unionists.
Nationalist newspaper cites dox-
ems OF incidents with names in which
1t declares Nationalist voters In
Ballymacarret across the river LAgan
from Relfast, were beaten on their
way to the polls or after voting, thus
preventing others from attempting to
cast votes.
The Unionists likewise claim their
supporters were prevented from exer-
cising the franchise in Nationalist dis
tricts. Neither side appears to at
tempt to conceal the fact that pcrso-
nation was carried on to an unprece-
dented extent.
Belfast May 25.-Election officials
began this informing at O'Clock to
count the votes cast in Ulster yester-
day in the election of members of tho
new north Irish parliament. 1t was
expected that when the canvassers
suits in this city and possibly many
districts outside would be known.
Belfast had returned to almost nor
! NAL after a night Of widest excite
! ment, repors reaching this city indi
eating that many districts in Ulster
were similarly affected.
| The complicated system of propor-
tional representation provided for un-
der the Irish act made it doubtful, it
! was said this morning. whether rhe
complete returns would be known un-
/ til the end Of tse week.
| Belfast May 24-The whole Of
Ulster, which has been scething with
excitement all day long over the elec-
ton Of candidates to the new parlia-
ment which only Unionists will attend,
if they secure the necessary majority
"a foregone conclusion-is a regular
Babel this evening. with extreme
tension in some quarters. From
early morning it has been the task
of the workers OF the Unionists, Na-
| Gonalists and Sim Feiners to get
every one OF their supporters to the
polls, with the result that there has
been an unprecedented rush aof motor
,cars--through>" the streets and har-,
ranging Of voters, raising passions to,
fever heat. es
In all sections where Protestants
and Catholics live side by side there
have been incidents" which re-
CURED the attention of the police.
! EBallymacarre:, despite the fact that
Catholics were largely from it's con-
fines last July. proved to be the hot
test corner of the city.
| V1~,y;ro uoJd cs~n<.
! TIL police. rc-enforced by soldiers
in armored cars. are in possession OF
the streets tonight.
Trouble was started when Protest
ants held a demonstration outside Of
ST. Mathews Catholic church. and
was intensified when a Sim Feiner
raised flag right in Protestant
street. Stone throwing and a few
revolver shots were exchanged before
the police broke up the crowds.
The Sim Fein quarter here is an
isolated one. so it kept the military
busy in preventing it from being in
vaded
In North street. which connects
Protestant Shank Hill road with Roy
al avenue. Beltast's main street. there
is another small colony of Sim Fein-
ers who today were also flying their
colors despite the Overwhelming
number OF their opponents, and a
party of black and tans, backed by
the police. had all they could do to
prevent the Protestants from crossing
the border line.
In Lisbon and County Down the
Sim Feiners allege that their watch
ers were driven from the polling
booths and motor cars taken from
their canvassers. The other side
charges similar treatment in the Sim
Fein districts.
+: A number of "covenanters," men
who pledged themselves in 1914,
when Sir Edward Carson was raising
his army. never to consent to home
rule in any shape or form. abstrained
from voting on the ground that to
vote for members OF the Ulster par
lament would be to sreak their
pledge.
I Attacks Made a. Booth.
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