The New York herald., 1921-05-14
.SINN FEIN SWEEPS
IRISH ELECTIONS
Gets l28 Seats to 4 i'm South
Ireland House, All of Them
Unopposed.
TO REFUSE ALLEGIANCE
New Parliament Will Never
Function and VicerOy to
Name Executive.
TO REFUSE ALLEGIANCE
BIZ the Associated Press.

DUBLIN, May 13.-Southern ireland
has again registered its complete al
legiance to the Dali Eireann and re-
newed its united demand for an Irish
Republic in the nominations for the
Southern Parliament carried out to-
day The Parliament now is virtually
constituted.
Except for four Imperialist candi-
dates who We're returned unopposed
for Dublin, not a single opponent has
been nominated against the Sim Fein
candidates, who therefore will be re-
turned unopposed in the southern con-
stituencies. These Sim Feiners will
refuse the oath OF allegiance to the
crown, and therefore the new Parlia-
ment will never function.
Thus 1t will devolve upon the Viceroy
TO nominate an executive on the lines
of crown colony administration, unless
tho Government should decide to rec
ognize all the members elected in the
north and south as a constituent assem-
bly,.
More than half the members selected
in the south are in jail. Others have at
some time been In prison.
The elections were the quietest ever
known in Ireland. No polling was nee
essary. as. according to the British Gus
TOM when only one candidate is nomi-
mated the polling is dispensed with. In
hp t1 N
Parliament were filed. as the four I'M
perialist nominees. who were named for
Dublin University, also were unopposed.
These four werc the only Imperialists
nominated outside Of Belfast.
Two of them, Thrift and Alton, are
fellows OF Trinity College, Dublin. while
the other two are Sir James Craig.
Kings professor Of medicine, School OF
Physic OF Trinity College, and Gerald
Fitzgibbon, eminent member of the Irish
bar
Those named include Ealnonn de Va
lcra. for Glare; Micnael Collins, COM
mander in chief of the Irish Republican
Army. for county Cork Arthur Griffith,
founder of the Sim Fein: Alderman
Cosgrave and many other men promi-
nently connected with the Sim Fein
movement.
At Cork the only candidate present Al
the declaration OF the results was Liam
Roisite. All the others are in jail OF
"on the run." Roisite thanked the Sher-
ff in behalf of his imprisoned and alb
sent colleagues. Those named In Cori
city or county include Sean MacSwiney
brdther of the late Lord Mayor OF Cork
who recently escaped from Spike island
internment camn and MARY MacSwiney
his sister, who is now in America. Other
Hav ~, "a
vicz, who Is I'm prison, and Mrs O'Cal
laghan, Mrs Clarke and Mrs. Pearse.
In Donegal six Sim Feiners were re
| turned unopposed. They are all eithel
| in prison. In internment. camps, or il
| hiding
| 1t is noteworthy that in Monaghan
ana Gavin. two Ulster counties which
are included in the Southern Parlia
n,ent, the Sim Feiners won overwhelm
ingly.
Tor the Northern Parliament seventy
seven candidates were nominated and tn,
Unionsts expect a majority of twelve
In County Down six Unionists. includ
ing Sir James Craig Premier designate
OF Ulster), three Sim Feiners, includinf
Eamonn de Valera two Nationalists
including Joseph Devlin, and one La.bol
candidate were nominated for the eigh'
seats. Do Valera had the remarkable
number of 900 nomination papers. many
CT them signed by Catholic priests. HI.
chief Unionist opponent is Sir James
Craig. Devlin is nominated also fol-
Antrim and West Belfast.
Belfast furnished a surprise by tho
nomination of one unofficial labor can.
didate in each of the four divisions
For the twenty seats the Unionists
nominated nineteen candidates, the
Sim Fein six. the Nationalists five and
labor four. No independent candidates
were nominated for Belfast, County
Down or Antrim, hence the fight will
be a straight one between the official
Unionists and the Sim Feiners.
yTYRIAN COAL MINERS STRIKE
VIENNA, May 12.-Tne miners In the
c,4...ian con nl6alda went On strife To-