CATHOLIC FEDERATION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 71, 24 November 1913, Page 5

CATHOLIC FEDERATION.

ITS POWER IN POLITICS

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Sydney, November 24

. Father O'Reilly, champion of the Catholic Federation movement, created a sensation in an address at Cootamunda Catholic Church by denouncing Mr Holman, the Premier, for allegedly causing the issue of a secret circular advising Labor candidates not to bind themselves on Catholic questions. Father O'Reilly, advised the

Catholics to vote against all candidates whether Catholic, Protestant, Labor, or Liberal for refusing to answer the Catholic Federation's ques-

tions. He declared that though for twelve years he had voted for Labor he intended to vote Liberal because the Labor candidal tinned down the I*cdevatir-i