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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 173, 6 May 1874, Page 3

The Tablet advocates that all Catholics should vote in a block at elections. It says : —“|The recent changoof the Ministry athome cannot failto bo ultimately for the benelit of the Catholic party, not that Mr. Disraeli, however, is any greats}, friend of the Catholics than Mr. Gladstone. Both these men, like other Protestant state men n England, are mere men of ©xpodienta. -lliey have no prominent principles. They are like a cork on the water, and float away as the wind and tide drive them—very much in this respect like the Protestant Press. If Catholics bo necessary to sustain them in power, they will favour the Catholics, not otherwise. Mr Disraeli may feel the want of Catholic support irt the hour of his extremity, and he will secure it if ho prudently can by conceding something to the Catholics, if not all they want. It will be the same thing in 2few Zealand, so Catholics bad bettor look after themselves and manage * the Catholic vote ’ well. On certain occasions, and these the most critical, our rote tells when given in a block, however few we be compared with Protestants. . Divide the Catholic vote, and we become the victims of our enemies at all times. ”