Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
,snsctsl Correspondence Of the Alexandria aasettel
n n Nov 1894

WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 8. 1884.
To. day, as yesterday, everybody here
republicans as we'll as democrats, except
few oficeholders, and few of the many
who have made bets on Blaine, concede
CIeyeland:s election. Many, If not all, the
chiefs of divisions in the departments say
there il no use in doing anything to keep
nm The uncertainty about the result OF the
eiectiou any longer, as Cleveland is elected,
40 the people believe he is, and as any at
tempt to deprive him of the Office to which
he has been chosen will be likely to start
g fire, the extent of which no man
can foretell. This feeling is rapidly he.
coming prevalent throughout all the de-
partments here as we'll as throughout
sill classes Of the city's population.
The New York Tribune of this morn
ing afforded those who are 10th to relln;
ouish their last hope little heart by sun
claiming New York by small majority,
bat all the other New York papers say thai
Cleveland is elected and will be lnaugu-
rated. The Sun, Buffers supporter, says
there is no use in looking at any more bull
letins, that Cleveland is elected, that those
who have bet on Blaine should pay at once
that the winners should not DO aggressive,
and that all should make up their minds to
rive Cleveland's administration fair trial
and to Judge it by its fruits. salute oil
one hundred guns to celebrate the demo-
cratic victory was fred here at noon to-day.
The whole front of Vernon Row, corner OF
| 10Th street and Pennsylvania avenue, from
the ground to the top of the flag pole, Is
covered with banners, streamers ana nagS,
and among them a bloody shirt draped in
mourning, with the motto, Buried Tor
eyer-no more North, no more South so
confident are people here Of Cleveland's
election that the chief talk now is about his
probable cabinet, in which it is generally
thought that Virginia will be represented
and that Mr.. John s. Bal bour will be the
man. The District Offices also have al
| ready become the objects of much good
natured rivalry among the democrats
of the city, several of whom are solicit
ing signatures to theft applications
for such. Indeed, such is the prevailing
certainty of the democratic victory that
MANY of the sporting men who had bet on
Blaine have already paid up, and are now
irving to get even in some other way.
Senator Edmunds and Judge Sener, the
latter from Fredericksburg, are among
the prominent republicans now here who
say that Cleveland is elected, and that
it is foolish 10 be prolonging the excitement
incident to uncertainty any longer. Gen.
Butler, who is also here, says he is more in.
terssted now in renting his house to Con-
gress for committee rooms than about the
result of an election which can not be de-
cided until the official count has been au-
nounced. Mr.. Dezendorf, who is also here,
is al other one of those who are waiting for
the official count, but he confesses that bis
hope IS not strong. He also says that he
should have as little to regret as any man,
because a democratic administration could
not have treated him and his party in Viz
GINA any worse than the present admin
istration has done.
The maiorities by which President Cleve.
! land has been elected have been added,
and it is computed that they amount to
about two million of the white voters of the
country. This shows that any attempt to
swinile him out of his Office would result
disaslrously to those engaged in it.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina, who
i. here says the democratic majority in his
State will be- nearer thirty than twenty
thousand. Many republicans there went
back on Baine because they had TEEN
D ,omised money, but had gotten none.
Postmaster Dalton, of the House, who has
Just returned from his home in Indiana,
says there was no excitement there on the
day Of election, but that there was stern
determination on the part of the democrats
to put up with nothing like the Cincinnati
outrages, and that every Que of them not
ouly went to the polls but carried a wea.
pom Of some sort with him. He also says
that Mr.. Mcdonald has been greatly pro-
voked by dispatches coming there stating
that Virginia had gone republican, which he
knew from the character of the Virginia
people were false.