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Show j NATIONALISTS LOSE TO SINN FEIN IN ; ELECTION Appeals to America Play Great Part in Contest : Just Closed. rl"BLIN. Dec. (Correspondence of lh Associated free.). The filnn rein victory over the Nationalists In the recent parliamentary elections exceeded ex-ceeded the highest hopes of the flnn Kelners. It Is believed that hen the f'nsl count Is made on December II. the rilnn Kelners will have won a ma- I Joriiv ut the Irish seats. In fact before the election they had rained twenty-flvs twenty-flvs seats became the Nationalists did not oppose them. The Sinn Kelners elected will not j take tholr seats. They will forfeit the flM which they had to post as en elei nun fee and which hr- returnable j only when a member tak hi oath and hia aeat. Their Immediate purpose, according to one of their most prominent leaders, la to convok an Irish Nationalist assembly as-sembly early in January. The assembly assem-bly would draft a national constitution for Ireland which would be laid before a conference of all nations. Complete separation and a republic wholly Independent of Great Britain, are boldly claimed by some HInn Kein- . em. Th difficulties In th way of a home rule agreement still persist. Va- rlous plana have bean auggested to I bring about home rule, but none haa suhHtsnilal backing from any organized organ-ized party In Ireland. RECONSTRUCTION. Meanwhile the government In Ireland Ire-land Is concerned mostly with the problem of the reconstruction of Industry, In-dustry, after the war, and plans are being prepared for industrial and agricultural agri-cultural Improvement. Viscount French. the lord lieutenant, and th secretary I for Ireland, Mr. Hhortt, are In accord with this movement, which may be af- j fee ted adversely by th absence of i Irish members from parliament If the 91nn Felnera carry out their threat. j The Nationalists made a weak fight In many districts and failed entirely j to contest such moderate eonstltuen- ciea as C'arlow. I In I later, Cardinal fogue was a leaJer in organising opposition to the followers of flr Edward Parson. With Catholic bishopa and others he allotted allot-ted tha eight doubtful neat In Ulster equally between the Sinn J'einera and the National and called upon the supporters sup-porters of aach party to vote against the Caraonltes. NATIONALISTS WEAKENED. Cardinal Logu. who haa condemned th lnn Fein policy a "foolish and disastrous." announced hla Intention to vote for tha Sinn Keln candidate. This was another bmb in th racks of the Nationalists, who were weakened further fur-ther by the support given the Hinn f Fin by Archbishop Walsh of Dublin. Bishop Fogarty of Klllatoe, Bishop Ha 11 1 no n of Limerick and Bishop Co- ( halan of York. Appeals tu America played a great part in th contest on both aides. The Nationalist leaders recalled that the Sinn Keinera had Insulted the American Ameri-can flag and aupported Oerroany. The filnn Kelners min niled the reports of Insults and repudiated allegations of pro-Germanism by claiming they were I I only pro-Irish. Speeches were incm- , plete. without reference to th Irish and America and ame Sinn Kein speakers claimed that from 0 to JW: per cent of .Americans favored the In- , dependence of Ireland. |