Zbog veza reformnoga pokreta sa zemaljskom vladom u Hrvatskoj i centralnom vladom u Beogradu, gdje su na vodećim mjestima bili Pribićevićevi samostalni demokrati, kao i zbog otvorene naklonosti Pribićevića i njegovih stranačkih kolega, liberalni je tisak počeo promatrati reformni pokret kao svojevrstan eksponent protuhrvatske politike. Za Radićev odnos prema reformnom pokretu i starokatolicizmu može se ukratko reći kako je on bio oportunistički i politički motiviran radi slabljenja utjecaja Katoličke Crkve na selo i seljaštvo, osobito Hrvatske pučke stranke, kao temeljnu glasačku bazu njegove stranke. Iako je dio članova Hrvatske (pučke/republikanske) seljačke stranke djelovao radi propagiranja starokatolicizma iz interesnih razloga, Radić nikada javno nije podržao Hrvatsku starokatoličku Crkvu i njezino djelovanje, bez obzira na svoje antiklerikalne i antikatoličke stavove. Because of the connections of the reform movement with the land government in Croatia and the central government in Belgrade, where Pribićević’s independent Democrats held the leading positions, as well as the open affection of Pribićević and his party colleagues, the liberal press began to view the reform movement as a kind of exponent of anti-Croatian politics. On Radić’s attitude towards the reform movement and Old Catholicism we can say that it was opportunistically and politically motivated in order to weaken the influence of the Catholic Church on the village and peasantry, especially the Croatian People’s Party, as the core voting base of his party. Even though some members of the Cro-atian (People’s/Republican) Peasant Party were in favor of promoting Old Catholicism purely out of interest, Radić never publicly endorsed the Croatian Old Catholic Church and its activities, regardless of his anticlerical and anticatholic positions.