This is a Presidential year.

The election of 1888 will be decided, as was the election of 1884, in New York.

The Democratic party go into the contest with a New York candidate, President Cleveland, who was presented to the Convention at St.Louis for nomination, not by an Irishman from New York, but by an Irishman from the hopelessly Republican State of Pennsylvania, and whose renomination, distasteful to the Democratic Governor of the State, was also openly opposed by the Democratic Mayor of the city of New York, Mr.Hewitt, Mr.
George's successful competitor in the Municipal election of 1886.
Leaving Dr.M'Glynn to uphold the Confiscation of Land against the Pope in New York, as Mr.Davitt, Mr.Dillon, and a certain number of Irish priests uphold the Plan of Campaign and Boycotting against the Pope in Ireland, Mr.George supports President Cleveland, and in so doing cleverly makes a flank movement towards his "exclusive taxation of land," by promoting, under the cover of "Revenue Reform," an attack on the indirect taxation from which the Federal Revenues are now mainly derived.

Meanwhile the Cardinal Archbishop of Baltimore, who is also a political supporter of President Cleveland, has not yet been confronted by the supreme authority at Rome with such a final sentence upon the true nature of Mr.George's "exclusive taxation of land," as the clear-sighted Archbishop of New York is said to be seeking to obtain from the Holy Office.

What the end will be I have little doubt.