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Show r.DlTOItllVXA. What tie Says About itlie Uanqart of tho Iteforiii tluh. New Yoiik, Dec. 21. Kdltor Dana is still alive. This is what he says in tills morning's (Wednesday's) (Wednes-day's) Sun regarding the bamjuet at the ltefurm Club: "Tho dinner of the Reform Club si-called at Mad I sou Square Garden, was as Hue a piece of humbug as has been seen in New Yolk for many a day. That the atlair wn arranged lor the benellt of the stuffed prophet, and that the hundreds hun-dreds of good democrats who assisted assist-ed in the innocent belief that they were celebrating tiie triumph of democratic principles were victim of a calculated deception, Is apjiar-ent apjiar-ent from the ineulling treatment ol Gorvmor Hill by the mauagerol the shabby affair. The invitation grudgingly offered to Governor Hill was an invitation to nttend and be silent. Tho leader of the democracy democ-racy of the Empire State, thedemo-crat thedemo-crat who contributed more than any other man to the glorious victory ol November, the inau who defeatel McICiuley iu Ohio was to be ig nored, while the stulled llgurc of the shirker and skulker, the coward In light, the selllsli planner of dis aster, and the adored object of the anti-democrats cf New York, was hoisted in prominence. We congratulate con-gratulate Governor Hill on the unavoidable un-avoidable engagement which kept him away from such a jierform-ancc." jierform-ancc." I |