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Show TAMMANY AND BILL. One of the most discouraging signs of the times is the unqualified triumph of Tammany hall over tho combined forces of the republicans and oounty democrats demo-crats in New York. It is a triumph of the maohine and saloon over decency and the school. It is likewise the triumph tri-umph of David B. Hill over Grover Cleveland. The governor is in the saddle; sad-dle; his faction is on top. A great many demoorats considered the rivalry between Hill aud Cleveland as fatal to the ohanoes of either for the presidential nomination and they looked for a western Moses to lead them out of the wilderness of dospond. Had General Palmer succeeded in his senatorial aspiration In Illinois ho would at once have risen to the digqity of a leading candidate. As it is, he h dead, and Cleveland lies buried beneath be-neath the debris of 22,000 Tammany majority. . It is unfortunate, but it seems inevitable, inev-itable, that one of the great issues in the coraiDg presidential election will be Hill and the machine versus the untrammelled un-trammelled voice of $ew York. |