Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispocfal Correspondents Of the Alexandria 9asette]
n ~ A., on 1904

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Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gssete]
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 90. 1884.
In view of the fact that Pennsylvania
will be redistricted for congressional repre-.
sentation by The present legislature OF that
State. and that the republican majority ID
Air. Randalrs district will be made loo large
for him to overcome twhy ne oVercohes
tho present republican majority tnere no
one has yet tolul, bis friends are booming
him for u place in PRESIDENT CieVeianos
cabinet. II is not supposed, however, tnaI
either Mr.. Randall or any other protection
ist democrat will be put 10 positlon 70
advance protective ideas by the incoming
administra,ion. 1t was due to such anon
aIons democrats that the fuss about the
tariff was kicked up in the Chicago conven-
ton and it was to the detection they
nroduced that induced Butler to think that
he could draw votes enough to defeat CleVe-
land. which be almost succeeded in doing.
The IMPRESSION, therefore, is that nothing
would be gained but that much might, andln
all probability would, be lost by having any
protectionist in the cabinet.
Among those to whom the election OF
President Cleveland is most unacceptable
il General David Hunter, who lives here
and is seen almost every day on the streets.
He NAV have friends, but If so no BODY
seems to know them, and he Is always seen
bv himself. Of all the officers in the federal
army. the old man referred to is the most
execrated by Virginians, for though bone OF
their bone and flesh of their flesh, his tyran-
nous and outrae eous cruelty toward such OF
them as were in his power during the civil
war exceeded that ofany other officer in the
army. He spared neither age nor sex, and
seemed to delight in the sufierings of the
women and children whose houses he burn
ed over their heads, and in the anguish OF
the family of DR.. Creigh and the other prls-
oners he hanged Fire, the hangman's rope,
and women and children's tears pleased
him more than the smoke of battle, and he
| reyeled in them, but he is now having the
aftermath in the disgust his presence pro
duces, and in the avoidance and scowls that
must be apparent to him.
Blaine's speech is still the prevailing topic
of conversation here. A resident physician,
who attended Mr. Blaine when here, says he
would not be surprised if he should lose
his mind entirely during the next ak
months. Other people, however, who know
him we'll, say his mind is az sound as ever,
and that the speech was deliberate al
tempt to provoke trouble. Whatever may
have induced him to make it, there 10 no
doubt that with the exception of the morn
ing republican organ of this city and At
| torney General Brewster it is universally
condemned by republicans as we'll as demo
Gratis, has induced many to regret that they
voted for Mr.. Blaine, and satisfied those
who voted against him that they made no
mistake. The republicans say he does not
represent them, and that they do not want
LID mt .
that he defeated them, as with any body
else for their candidate they would have
been successful, and that now it Is as little
as he can do TO let them alone.
The Government employees here who
were intensely partisan, who left their offices
to electioneer for Blaine, and who kept lists
of their fellow employees who refused to
nav political assessments, are now dread
fully alarmed at the probability of the fate
they know they deserve; and to avert that
fate they are be<eeching Messrs. Carl
Sohurz, George William Curtis and the
other prominent civil service reformers to
Intervene in their behalf
Mr.. Frank Hatton, the present Post
master General, Is almost as we'll pleased
at Cleveland election as any democrat can
be. He would have lost his place under
Blaine as surely az under Cleveland, and
the formers defeat Is gratifying, because 1t
sustains his Own assertion that republicans
could not and would not adopt Baineism.
General Swaim's court martial is still pro-
ceeding slowly, objection piling upon OBJ
lection, for no other conceivable purpose
than to pIoong the trial. Nearly the
whole of to-day was consumed In determin-
ing whether or not the accused should have
additional counsel.
The United States Senate ID now com.
posed OF 80 democrats and 40 republicans.
The next Senate, from present appearances,
will be Just the same, as, though the demo
Gratis have lost Oregon and California, they
have gained Illinois, and will gain New
Hampshire when the legislature shall
be elected. That State was carried at
the last election by the 1929 demo.
Gratis Secretary Chandler appointed to
places in the Portsmouth Navy Yard.
Under the new administration all this vi !
certainly be changed, if not reversed.
Should the New York legislature elect Mr..
Conkling, of which there is now consider
able talk, and Mr.. Riddleberger come back
to the democratic party, as some who know
him say he will do the Senate will be tied
after the 4th of March, with Vice President
Hendricks to make it dem ocratic by cast
ing the deciding vote.
The Washington correspondent of one of
the most influential democratic papers in
the West told the GAZETTE's correspond
ent o.day that from what be saw and
heard he was induced to think that Hon.
John S. Barbour, of Virginia, was, after
Mr.. Thurman, the most likely of all those
spoken of to have Cabinet position offered
him.
The national republican headquarters HI re
have been permanently closed, and the
rooms are being prepared for the accommo-
dation of the visitors expected here to wit
ness the Inauguration of President Cleve-
land.
MARYLAND. VIRGINIA BOUNDARY LINE.
Capt. Chas. Junkin, of the United States
coast and geodetc survey, has been detail
ed BY the Secretary of War to finish mark