Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-30
FROM WASHINGTON.

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FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. D. c., August 80, 1884.
Among the many disappointed office
seekers now in this city is the negro Plehger,
of Georgia. who was promised the poStnas-
tership of Atlanta in the bargain by which
the vote of Georgia went for Arthur at the
national republican convention. Bryant SoI
his pay by The removal ofpoor old Gen Long,
street. but none of the others has received
anything, and Pledger is here to see why Tue
promise To him has not been fulllled.
From Illinois it is learned py Genera,
Parsons, prominent and Well'lntormea
democrat of that State, now mere, that tne
chances OF democratic success there are eH-
celIent. He has letter from the demo-
cratic candidate for Governor OF that State,
VINO is a German, in which the writer says
that he has been pretty we'll through the
state. and that at least ninety per cent. OF
the large German and Scandinavian vote
thereof will be given to the democrats, and
that the State will probably go democratic
next November.
Amonu the candidates who have been
authorized to report to the Naval Academy
at Annapulis for examination for appoint
meut as naval cadets on Monday next are:
John i. Frautz, james H. Reid, and w. L.
Gillespie, Of Virginia.
A member of the Virginia Legislature III
the CITY to-day says that just rs certain as
the Legislature Of his State meet snext DC
tober lust So certain will 1t re-enact the
election law declared unconstitutional by
the Court Of Appeals Of his State, amended
only by striking out the word freebooter.
Eeports of alge additions to the army OF
independent republicans are being con-
stautlv received at democratic headquarters
here If any democrat in Virginia is con-
templating Hopping, he had better hold up
for a while. One OF the most knowing and
best known Northern democratic politicians
in the country here to day says the election
will be a walk over for Cleveland. This
gentleman is better, and is investing largely
in the line indicated.
MIR. Eustace Gibson, member of the House
from West Virginia. is here to-day. He
says that the big fight in his State is against
him, but that he will be reelected by two
thousand majority, and that while he knows
no democrat there who intends to vote
against his party he knows scores of repub-
licans who openly declare that they will
not support theirs-stven of these he men-
toned as belonging to one family. About
the Wheeling district, he says it is really a
democratic district, and that he believes il
will go democratic in November. 10 this
connection it may be mentioned that Mr..
Golf, who has been renominated by the re-
pubicans there, said here, positively, the
day before the convention, that he would
decline the nomination if it should be ten
dered him. In view of this. some curiosity is
expressed here as to what Mr.. Golf will
do. Should he accept he will have some
opposition in his own ranks, in consequence
of his retention of Richards, an unpopular
man, as postmaster at Clarksburg.
Mr.. Wallace, democratic member of the
House FROM Ohio, is in the city oday. He
says that his State is pretty sure to so dem
ocratic next October, and that Blaine's af
tilia,ion with and support of the prohibi
tionists in Maine, aud Cleveland's expressed
opposition to sumptnary laws will secure to
the latter nearly the whole Of the German
vote there. a member of the City Council
of Columbus, Ohio, a republican, who is
visiting democratic friend in this city,
Tells HIM that from what is going on at bis
home he is afraid Cleveland will carry the
State.
1t is the gossip here that Mr.. Butterworth
republican candidate for Congress in Gin
cinuati, went over 10 New York to try and
get some soap" out Of the national repub-
licau commillee. 1t is said that he was
Informed that the committee couldn't give
him any fl :lncial aid in his Congressional
contest, aud that he left the headquarters
in no very amiablt mood.
Mr.. W. H. Thomas. the Louisville distil-
Ter. arrived here to day from New York,
,l,a, bfh .,C.h f,rt ha fun fhroa
weeks. He says that in his opinion there is
no doubt that Gov. Cleveland will carry
New York in November. He says that
there are those who claim that the demo-
cratic ticket will receive considerable ma
jority in the State out side Of the city Of
of New York. He says the bulk OF the
German vote will 90 TO Cleveland. He at
tended the meeting of Irish democrats at
the Academy of Music, Thursday night, and
says that that demonstration convinced him
that there was not much in the reported
disatlection among the Irish voters. He
says that where he met one democrat
who said he was going TO vote for Blaine, he
met three influential solid business republi
cans down town who said they were going TO
vote for Cleveland. Thomas is the most en-
thusiastic democrat who has been here for
some days. He said that he was at Chicago
when Mr.. Cleveland was nominated, and he
felt then that the convention had made a
mistake and should have nominated some
old time democrat like Thurman or Bayard,
but since his visit to New York, Mr.. Tho
mas says he has become convinced that no
mistake was made, and that Gov. Cleveland
is a sure winner. As to the betting he says
he did not see much, but in what little he
did see the odds were all in favor of the
success of the democratic candidate.
From Maryland the intelligence to day is
that the democrats will certainly gain one
Congressional district, that now represented
by Holton, and probably McComas's dis
trict also.
Among the latest anti Blaine republicans
in Indiana, as reported by Mr.. Dalton, of
the House postotfice, who has recently re-
turned from that State, are Mr.. Einton,
head ofthe large iron works in Indianapolis;
J. T. Dyer, a leading attorney there Peter
Leiber, President Of the Brewers Associa-
ton, and Mr.. Rowland, ex-Clerk of the U.
S. Court. Mr.. Dalton says when the repub-
lican accounts of Irish detection in that