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Show THE NEXT CABINET WAS THERE At n Dinner GiTen - to Mr. Cleveland by Henry Villard. New York, Nov. 22. Henry Villard and thirty-nine friends sat down to a magnificent dinner in the banquet room at Sherry's, Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh street, last Thursday night. The dinner was given by Mr. Villard to President-elect Grover Cleveland. Cleve-land. Git was a distinctly a Democratic dinner, as far as the politics of the guests were concerned, con-cerned, but otherwise its exclusiveness was almost plutocratic. The first llhing Mr. Villard did was to cajl upon Mr. Sherry and caution him against saying a word about the dinner to newspaper -men and the last thing Mr. Villard did before sitting down at the head of the table was to send for Mr. Sherry and reniw the caution made earlier in the day. For this reason some interesting political news is lost to the public, for the time being at least Nearly all the big guns of the Democratic party of the nation were there. Many of the guests were members of the Democratic national committee. It is not an exaggeration to say that all the men who sit in Mr, Cleveland's cabinet were there. William C. Whitne;-, Daniel Scott La-mont, La-mont, Don M. Dickinsc i. William F. Har-rity, Har-rity, Calvin S. Brice, Bradley Smalley, of Vermont land Roswell P. Flower were a few of l,hoewo satJov.'a with Mr, VIJ"'''rtla 'rrclevelititrls. 's-- " Down in the Hoffman house the local politicians talk a good deal about the dinner din-ner and its possible significance. They all had a reason for the dinner, and the consensus con-sensus of opinion was that Mr. Villard has his eye upon a place in Mr. Cleveland's cabinet, cab-inet, designated as the secretaryship of the interior. |