The General Election in the Free State is taking place
when we go to- press. The Government party, MO"' as Cumanu,na -Gael, is running 94 candidates; Mr. De Valera fills 85 'candidates;. Sinn Fein, otherwise Miss, MeSwiney's Republicans, 16; Labour,- 47; the Fanners Party, 40; the National League, led by Captain Redmond, 30; and the People's Party, 8. - There are,' besides, 46 Independents. It--is. not- surprising that--Mr.- Cosglice is extremely apprehensive of the result of letting loose the system of Proportional RepreientatiOn. among this medley. He justifiably fears that several groups may be returned 'strong enough to - deprive politics of all clear definition. No party may be strong enough to 'say that it has a' mandate from the country.. -This, as it seems to us, is and must be the objection to Propor- tional Representation ,wherever it is. tried,, although it is just and delightfully logical in the abstract.
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