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The Catholics had given their upholders a resigned character. Moreover, the name Catholic applied to the members of the two Clerical societies made those who did not belong to them admit with great tranquillity that they were not Catholics. The Clericals called their enemies Moncadists, and by implication Schismatics, Atheists, and Anarchists.
Inside the town there was a Moncadist majority; in the environs everybody was a Catholic and belonged to the Benevolent Society. Generally the Catholics were abused in word and deed by the Moncadists; the members of the Workmen's Club held those of the Benevolent Society for cowards and traitors.
In the two electoral headquarters established by Moncada's party, the coming and going never stopped; some enthusiastic Moncadists came to headquarters every fifteen minutes, to bring rumours going about and to get news. Don So-and-So had said this; Uncle What's-His-Name was thinking of doing that; it was nothing but conferences and machinations.
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