The Daily Alaska empire., 1927-09-14
IRELAND IS VOTING TODAY.


 ton today, and again the cosgrave Government is trial The election grows out of an agreement that entered into than month ago by the Labor Party, of which Thomas Johnson is leader, the Nationalists under the leadership of Capt Redmond and the Fiana Fail or De Valera Party. under the terms of which the latter to furnish enough votes to pass Johnson's motion for lack of confidence in the Cosgrave Government and to sustain Govern ment of which Johnson to be the President An attempt to get the Farmer and Independent Parties to join the alliance failed but the com bination counted a majority of one without them When the vote taken it found that Nationalist John Jinks, who refused to work with the De Valera crowd had absented himself and the vote a tie. The Speaker then cast the deciding vote for President Cosgrave, and the movement collapsed like a house of cards.
 There was general rejoicing in Ireland and a feeling of relief when the vote taken for the alliance unnatural one. The agree ment that MT. Johnson would form gov ernment from the minority parties without recognizing the De Valera Party with single Cabinet position MT. De Valera's participa- tion was solely to furnish the votes that would defeat President Cosgrave In fact, MT Johnson promised that the Anglo-Irsh agreement would be maintained and that not a person that par ticipated in the civil against the treaty with England would be recognized in any way. The Johnson program much nearly in agreement with that of President Cosgrave than it was with that of MT. De Valera It not a promising combination and pleased no part of the people.
 Immediately after the defeat of the lack of confidence motion, President Cosgrave adjourned the Dali until October II, when it believed that election would be called.
 However bye-elections held in Dublin August 27 to fill vacancies in the Dali caused by the assassination of vice-President Kevin O'Hggins and the death of Countess Markievicz, and the reaction of the people disclosed in sweeping majorities for the Government whose candidates received 641O5 votes to 34,773 for the Fianna Fail candidates. The other parties had all but disappeared. President Cosgrave im- mediately called general election for Septem- Der 15.
 President Cosgrave confidently expects sweeping victory in the election today He re- ceived large majority of the votes in the cleo tion last spring, but the provision for minority representation gave the Government Party but little more than one-third of the members It is further worthy of note that 1t generally supposed at the election that the Labor and Ma tionalist Parties would act with the Government Party as the Farmer and Independent Parties did In fact during the campaign the Government Labor, Farmer Nationalist and Independent Par ties were linked together as the Constitutional ists and the Fianna Fail and Sim Fein were styled the Republicans
 The break between the Labor and National ist Parties and the Government occurred when President Cosgrave refused to entertain the sug- gsstion of Mr. Johnson and Capt. Redmond for 8 coalition government. MT. Cosgrave declared that he would not head such administration and pro- ceeded to form Cabinet wholly from the Gov ornment Party Then began negotiations with ur. De Valera for votes to break President Cosgrave