Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-08-29
POLITICAL.

bour and the appointment Of Il delegation to
the convention to meet here on the 9th
proSimo entirely friendly to his nomination.
A dispatch in Yesterdays GAZETTE an
nounced that Maj. Conrad had withdrawna as
a candidate for the nomination. so that Mr..
Barbour will have as we anticipated from
the first, no opposition, and the convention
will merely have to record the almost
unanimously expressed will of the people of
this district in favor Of the nomination of
Hon. John S. Barbour. The following arc
the names of the delegates and alternates
Barboursville-T. B. Tisdale; alternate,
Conway Newman. Gordonsville-P. p.
Barbour and j. c. Gentry alternates, F.
Coward and w. II. Faulconcr. Orange
j. G. Williams and G. J. Browning; al
ternates, VIM. Graham and James Ray
Rodgers--W. R. Taliferro and James Rowe
alternates, VIM. Camper and r. II. Rodgers.
Woolforks-C, w. Woofork and r. P.
Graves; alternates, Eustice Terrill and Dr.
L. Terrill. Gordon s-R p Richards al
Mr.. Dezcndorf. in the Norfolk district. is
! out in card, contradicting the several re-
ports put forth that he would Withdraw
from the contest for Congress, which con-
cludes as follows: Il desire to say the Ad-
mlnistration has not Offices enough nor is
there money enough in the Treasury of the
United States to induce me to withdrawn
Good
The Lee county Sentinel, in its report OF
Wise's speech, at Jonesville, says: "His
abuse Of the democrats, and his endorse
ment OF Arthur fell like cold water on his
audience. One more speech like that it
says, will make it unnecessary for Massey
to visit the county"
At u speech made by Mr.. Blaine, at Port.
land, Me-, last night, he said "Never has
the time been when in every county and
district and settlement Of the South the
verest abolitionist and the blacklist republi
can and duskiest African couldnot come and
60 under the guarantee of the great consti
tutional amendment which the republican
party engrafted on the organic law" Now
then, we hope, after the declaration of the
Stalwart Blaine, we shall have no more o.
terrorism in the South--Blaine himsel
hath said it,
The Philadelphia Record says: THE Vir-
ginia republicans protest against the Presi
dents effort to turn the State over tt
Senator Malone to be looted. They are
learning how sharper than serpent's tooth
it is to have thankless boss"
The Baltimore Day says: "The Alex
andria GAZETTE thinks it strange that Ma.
hone and John S. Wise did not Join the
President, Grant, Conkling, Hoar, Bob niger
soil Wendell and Phillips in sending letters
Of regret to the John Brown picnic at Chi
cago. The GAZETTE should remember that
Just now John Brown does not vote in Eir-
gina, and that his family are not liable to
Boss Mahonc's D per cent. assessment.
Hence the OMISSION
A gentleman who heard Wise speak in
Danville Thursday night says he never lis
tened to such a continuous flow of black
guardism and vulgarity before in his life.
lie stood 1t for twenty minutes, and
although a Malone readjuster,-left in
disgust.
The Charlottesville Chronicle says: SIN
the Coalition Convintion at Lynchburg Jim
Frazier announced himself republican
saying he should feel nsulted at being
''called democrat" Nobody has thus in
suited him fer long time.
The Lynchburg correspondent of the
Richmond Dispatch says: sit is said that
the special object of Rives' visit north is to
get money enough to start paper here.
Nearly $1,000 for this purpose has been sub
scrbed in Lynchburg, and Rives hopes to
raise the balance 5000 from The Iron
and Steel Association of the United States, ,
an organization very much interested in
securing the defeat of Mr. Tucker"
State Senator Newbcrry has announced
himself a candidate for Congress in the
Abingdon district and expresses pain and
| surprise at Fulkerson contesting the field
with him. He says it looks like others at
tempting to reap the harvest that he had
sown. He declares himself Il democrat out
and out.
There was political discussion at Staun-
ton yesterday between Messrs. Paul and
O'Ferrall which was highly gratifying in it's
results to the democrats of Augusta. 4 dis
patch says: 'Two car loads of noisy read
justers were sent down from Rockingham
county to do the hallooing for Paul, and in
the beginning they interfered great deal
with Colonel O'Ferrall's speech, hooting and
Kissing but when the O'Ferrall men saw
their object they rallied in force, and beat
them badly at their own game In his closing
Paul said: II want to know Of the gallant
Colonel, who is his candidate for Congress
man at large 2" Colonel O'Ferrall, said, II
will tell the gentleman if he will listen.
am going to vote for the man he has for the
last two years been telling me was the best
Auditor Virginia ever had, and am going
IN "a dam 10 4 ~,