New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-05-14
Sillrl E'eirl Gets
All but A of
Southern Seats
Republicans Make Clean
Sweep in Parliamentary
Nominations Except for
Unopposed frnperialists
Polling Dispensed With
All But So Places in North
Will Be Contested, 30
on Nationalist Ticket
Special Cable to The Tribune

Copyright, 1921. New York Tribune Inc.
DUBLIN, May 13.-When the nomina-
tions for the Parliamentary elections in
south Ireland closed this afternoon,
1923 members out of total of 1870, rep
resenting twsnty-six out Of thirty-two
Irish counties, were declared elected
without opposition.
All but four of the members are Re
publicans. The exceptions are rep
resentatives of Dublin University
Twenty-Five of the members declared
elected are in Jail. cannon De Valera,
Sim Fem president, was returned for
County, Glare. Arthur Griffith was
elected from Cavan, and Michael Col
Inns, head of the republican army, was
chosen from County Cork.
Slim Fein Author Elected
A notable fact in the election is the
choice from Kildare and Wicklow of
Erskine Childers, author of the famous
spy story Riddle of Sand, who served
with. the British feet during the war
and is now connected with the Sim
Fein propaganda department.
The southern Parliament is now fully
constituted. For the northern Parlia-
ment, on the other hand, all fifty-two
seats are contested by rival nominal
tions made to-day, thirty-four candi-
dates going forward on Sim Fein
tickets.
The nomination day surprise in the
north was the appearance of indepen-
dent prohibition candidates from some
of the Belfast seats. Joseph Devlin,
speaking in Belfast last night, said it
was the duty of the Nationalist to
smash the northern Parliament. Eight of
the Republican candidates in the north
are in prison and others are interned,
but one was released yesterday from
the Ballykinlar internment camp, and
it is expected that others will be freed
for the election campaign.
Day Passes Without Disorders
No nomination day disorders we're re-
ported in any part of Ireland, although
party feeling is running high in Bel
fast
The Republican members Of the
southern Parliament will not meet
until the northern elections on May "a,
when, according to The Tribune CORE
spondent's information, the abstention-
list candidates elected in Ulster will be
summoned to sit with the southern
members as a new Dali Eireann, There
will be Republican body representing
all Ireland to negotiate with Unionist
members returned for the northern
Parliament, representing the Ulster
minority.
The nomination of total of 245
candidates has cost the Sim Fein alto
gether about 100000, most of which
was subscribed locally.
DUBLIN, May 1S-tBy The Associat-
ed Press)--No polling was necessary
in to-day's elections, as, according to
the British custom, when only one can
didate is nominated, the polling is dis
pensed with. In this way the 1928 seats in
the southern Parliament were filled, as
the four Imperialist nominees, who
were named for Dublin University, also
were unopposed.
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, Trinity College, and
Gerald Fitzgibbon, eminent member of
the Irish bar.
In Donegal also there was no con-
test, the single Unionist candidate,
Major Moore, having at the last
moment withdrawn, leaving six Sim
Feiners to be returned unopposed
They are all either in prison, in in
ternment camps or in hiding
For the Northern Parliament De
Valera had the remarkable number of
800 nomination papers, many of them
signed by Catholic priests. His chief
Unionist opponent is Sir James Craig
Devlin is nominated also for Antrim
and West Belfast.