Evening star., 1932-02-15
TWO SLAIN AS IRISH
CAMPAIGN CLOSES
Dali Candidate and Detective
Shot While Speaking-Cos-
grave Makes Plea.
Sy the Associated Press.

9y the Associated Press.
DUBLIN, February 15.-The Irish
election campaign. one Of the chic,
issues in which Is the question Of closer
or more distant relations with Great
Britain, entered its last day today with
the blood Of two citizens. one of then
candidate. across its trail.
Patrick Reynolds member OF the
Government party in the Dali Eireanr
and candidate for reelection, and q
detective named Mcclellan we're shot
and killed while delivering political ad-
the present government should be able
man named Joseph Leedy was ar
rested.
The two men were witnesses the day
betSre at an inquest into the death
OF James Waugh, leader of the op-
posing Republican party, who, it was
charged, had been ill-treated by guards
while q prisoner in Balliamore Bar
racks. Mcclellan testified that Waugh
had been treated in the kindlieSt
manner.
Cosgrave's Fifth Appeal.
President Cosgrave, who. after 10
years in Office, is making his fifth ap-
peal to the country in tomrroW' S
voting, argues that Great Britain is Ire
4dI1Q DeSI IIldIh anu llldI lllt oetOl oldt
will benefit tremendously through En-
pire preference tariff treaties which
the present government should be able
to negotiate with Westminster.
Eamonn de Valera, leader of the
Fianna Fail, principal opposition candl-
date, holds, on the contrary, that Ire
land can never prosper until she has
severed all the links that bind her to
the British Empire and makes herself
independent and self-contained.
Adherents of De Valera have prom
ised abolition of the oath to the British
King from the Saorstat constitution,
modification of the present position of
the governor general in the Saorstat.
discontinuance of payment Of 100000
tabout $40, 0,500,0 ,000) in land annuitieS to
England and provision Of employment
for the countrys jobless.
There was every prospect. however,
that the election would be one of the
quietest ever held in the SaorStat. The
Fianna Fail, fearful perhaps lest they
ALLEVIATE conservative opinion, have con-
Quoted a remarkably moderate cam
paign. Disorders from any quarter
have been few.
Predicts Large Gain.
De Valera has predicted he will gain
perhaps II or 80 seats in the DaD's
membership Of l53.
There IS widespread feeling among
politicians. however, that the Cosgrave
party. Cumann Ma NGael, with its al
lies, the Farmers, the Independents and
Independent Labor, will find its present
membership Of IS reduced somewhat,
but will be still in the majority.
The present state of the parties is:
For the government, Cumann Ma
NGael, 65; Farmers, 6; Independents,
-; Independent Labor, 2; total pro-
government, IS. Against the government,
Flanna Fail, S. Independent Republic
an, /; Labor party, 10; total anti-gov-
eminent, ST. Two seats are vacant.
For the first time in the 10-year his
tory Of the Saorstat all candidates are
avowed constitutionalists. De Valera.
although advocating further radical
separation Of the Saorstat from Britain,
believes that this can be effected within
the present constitutional structure.
The Dali was dissolved January %.
The new Dali will convene March 2.