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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 15, 10 April 1902, Page 29

One of the minor points of interest in connection with the election in East Down (says the Dublin ' Freeman's Journal ') is that, although Mr. Johnston, Al P , senior, is ninninp, Colonel Wallace, the Government candidate. Mr Johnston, jun , his eldest son, is almost certain to vote for Mr. Wood. Young Mr Johnston who manages the family property at lUllykilbeg. has no public or " political ambitions; and,— what will pi ob ably surprise many people— ho is a Nationalist. The member for Smvth Belfast has boon rather unfori unale. so far as Ins family are c-oncei ned, m connection with "the two great passions and prejudices of his life. The son of iho great Unionist, who would line 1 lie ditrhes ' to present Home Rule is .i Nationalist; the daughter of me most prominent Orangeman and anti-Catholic bisiot in Ulster is a CM hoi. c In Banykilne-. however, with all his peculiarity, Johnston has always been like d by all classes and creeds, foi he is one of the best of neighbors And they say clown there that one of (no curious's.ghts on a Sunday "'ornin* when he is al home, is to see h, logins Miss Johnston at the gale of the Catholic Church.