Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
,speoai rrespondenoe OF tho Alexandria tiszette.

WAsH,SGToN. p. c.. Nov. 10. 1884
A gentleman here to-day who left Lioer'
u, Bedford county. Virginia, yesterday says
he was present at a conversation that took
place there lust before he left between two
we'll known citizens Of that towD, one
Bap,ist preacher, In which the opinion e1'
pressed by both gentlemen was that Senator
kidd!cberger, now that the Malone bladder
has burst, will do ali That he can TOWARD
Getting back toto tho democratic party. He
saws they talked as though they were per-
factly familiar with the character of Mr..
Riddleberger, and really believed that he
would make the attempt referred to regard
less of the opposition that might be made
to it from the party he would leave and OF
that of the one he might join. The gentle
man alluded to says that for him
self he would have no objection to re-
ceiving Mr.. Riddleherger into the dem
ocratic party provided he would come as
high private, but that he and all of
his party in Virginia with whom he is
acquainted would object, and strenuously,
to his coming upon any other terms. He
saws the republican party in Virginia has
been utterly destroyed by the defeat OF
Blaine, ss its only effective material was
the negroes, who were held together by the
fsdt raj oficeholders, and now that the
latter will soon be changed, the cement
that held the party together is gone, and
that the organization has already dropped
to pieces, and that hereafter, when the
negroes realize that the democrats do not
want to treat them badly land that what their
late leaders have told them about the terri
BILE fate that would befall them in case of
democratic success was said to deceive
| them. they, or at least large number OF
them will vote with their white neighbors.
General Butler is still in The city, and
was at the Capitol this morning, having
the contract for the rent of his house pre-
pared and signed He wasn't dressed az
dandily to-day as he was when engaged, as
he was recently, in electioneering Tor Mr..
Blaine. Nor did he look as we'll pleased,
either with himself or any body else, as he
did then, and the expression of his coun-
tenance was even more sinister than usual -,
if that were possible. He has ceased to
pose as the workngmau's friend and is
now engaged in drawing from the Treasury
large share of the money e1acted from
the workingmen for the use of building
composed of material he struggled into the
country, and in trying to get still larger
share for imaginary damages to worthless
property at the Falls of the Potomac.
The chief topic Of conversation here to-
dav is Mr. Blaine's speech at Augusta, last
night. 1t is approved by some of the more
bitter republicans, but, TO their credit be it
spoken, the vast majority of them regret
that he made it, and many are as pronounced
in their condemnation oft as any democrat
could be. The extreme bitterness of the
speech shows that the wound produced by
his defeat reached his gall bladder.
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slowly, bur, it is said by those who say they
| are familiar with the evidence to be pro-
duced, surely toward a conviction. His
objections are multitudinous, and are said
| by some Of his own party TO be instigated
| by his desire to retain his place as long as
possible, as his per diem is large.
Cabiuet makers are still at work here,
and there is hardly a democrat in the
coun;ry who ever was at oil prominent
| whose name has not been mentioned by
! some Que i'll the connection referred to. a
wise old newspaper man here, in abiding
| 10 distinguished democratic Senators who
are spoken of by their admirers for Cabinet
pos.i, ne, made u very sensible remark to day
to the Effect that the democrats didn't have
80 many great mt u ia The s. nate that they
could nIlDr, - spare any OF them, and that
is would ne better tor thu party If other
men We're selected.
Mr. w. W. DUNCAN, one Of the lessees of
the Alexandria Canal, went 10 Alexandria
to day tn sec something about o newly dis
covered def:.ct in the little that is proposed
to be given the U. $. Government to the site
for free bridge across the Potomac on the
piers of the Aqueduct. Mr.. DUNCAN says
that The season now ending has been disas
| trous to the lcsseea, on account of the little
coal transported by their canal.