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Show huonSinida:' A PARAGON. j - ,' It is always a1 painful duty to chroni- cle the fall of a conspicuous public char- j Hder, but when the man and his friends 1 have set that character up on a pedestal j us a monument for all others to pattern ailer, the duty becomes a doubty difficult diffi-cult f ne to perform. But G rover, the ftuiTed idol of democracy has fallen falleu like the stick of a rocket with more haste than dignity from the high position he has for so many years be-souir'ut be-souir'ut others to emulate, to that of a politician having thti most disreputable connection. It is something of a rid-the rid-the to determine how the mugwumps wli have worshipped him with syco-phullt!',. syco-phullt!',. adulatiou for years, because of liis ollicial faad political purity, will be able to reconcile his pasi record and the ponderous wooden platitudes he ufc- teied. with the position he occupied in the last New York campaign as the attorney, at-torney, the cajoling stump speaker, for !h;i continuance in power of Tammany, ;he mo-t disrcpuJabi and corrupt politiciii organization ou earth. The jiaragon has fallen, and by his fall has T.on neither sympathy nor has he made fienda who will be valuable to him. lie h:u been made the tool by which the ambition of Governor-Senator Hill will be advanced, for there is no longer any doubt, but what the latter is row tho pet of the Tammany organization. organiza-tion. The worM has considerable re-spec, re-spec, for Iavii B. Hill because he is anything but a hypocrite. He is a .lever, clear-headed and unscrupulous politician and does not pretend to be anything else. |