Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-15
FROM WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON. y. c.. Oct. 10. 1884
Nothing is talked about here to-day ex
cept the surprising result Of yesterdays
election in Ohio, and it is as true as re.
ma1kable that that surprise is as great to
the republicans outside the ring who man
aged the aff.r as it is to the democrats,
and the apparent feeling among the former
is therefore astoniShment rather than de
light: aud while the latter did not antlcl-
pate Il victory, the majority against them,
now estimated at twenty thousand, has, as
NAV we'll be imagiEed, q rather dlshearten-
ing effect. While various reasons are as,
signed as the cause of the unexpected
result, the prevailing and most probable
one is that the vote of the State was actually
b,ugn. with money at so much head,
Mr.. jay Could and II ring of monopclists
adyan, ing The requisite amount, with the
Treasury of the country as security, until
the political assessments, whose payment
victory 10 Ohio would secure, could be col
lected II is said here that the way by
which votes were bought in MaiDe was
nothing compared to that adopted IN OHIO,
and that fabulous sum was spent there, no
mans price being too high to be paid at
once by Blaine's agents. The President
being one of the few acquainted with the
means that were 10 be used, and the manner
in which they were to be applied, expresses
no surprise at the result, and says 1t ID
favorable 10 the election Of Mr.. Blaine. A
noticeable effect OF the republican victory is
the promplness with which the Government
clerks commenced the payment OF their
political assessments this morning. They
were iu the room of Mr.. Capp's squeezing
committee before eight o'clock this morning
turning in The respective amounts with
which they had been assessed, and there
has been continuous stream of them into
aud cut those icons ever since. MIR. Clapp's
face is wreathed with smiles and he says
all the hoys wanted TO make them pay up
Was gentle and agreeable persuader. 1t
is reported that his receipts to-day exceed
those of all the previous days of The cam.
paign put together.
Mr. Frank HalLon, who fastened to obey
Mahone's order to remove Mr.. Mckenzie
from the posluilice ut Alexandria, saying
that the republicans of Virginia amounted
to nothing was commissioned yesterday by
the President rs Postmaster General. In
doing this the President has complied with
the terms Of another one of his nefarious
bargains. This bargain was that Mr.. Hat
"whoop up" the Southern postmasters to
have themselves made delegates to the re-
publican national convention, and TO vote
therein for Arthur, for which he was to be
given the place to which he has just been
appointed. He did his part, and he was to
have received. his pay therefor on the first
of last July, but owing to an unavoidable
hitch the payment was delayed until yes
terday. Gresham was bad enough, but Hat
tons appointment is national disgrace.
However, nothing that the Arthur admins
tration can do, after what it has done, is
surprising.
A bogus dispatch was sent to gentle
man in the Interior Department yesterday
about p. M, signed A. II. Hckenlooper,
we'll known republican canvasser and
manager from Ohio. 1t ran in these words
lowing to unholy coalitions-democratic
bribery-the Stale is lost" All business
was suspended at once, and clerks, messen
gers and chiefs of divisions flocked to the
Corridors, and Bedlam reigned until the hour
of dismissal.
Capt. VIM. Geary, Of Alexandria county,
is in the city to day. Hes says the barbecue
to be given by the democrats of his county
at Carlin's Springs on Thursday, the 23d
inst, will be real old Virginia barbecue,
at which the ladies will be served with
chicken and home made bread, and the
yeomanry with mountain mutton and good |
beef. and that the Coony boys will see that
all have enough.
In the .. ). Supreme Court this morning the |
court through the Chief Justice, informed Mr. W.
L. Royal, whose appearance before that court yes
terday noticed in this correspondence of that
date. that he need not remain in attendance upon
the court, and that the court, through its clerk.
would notify him when it would be necessary for
him to present himself.
Col Edward Daniels, of Gunston Fairfax coun-
ty, Virginia well-know politician, is in the city
to-day. He has enlisted in the Butler cause, but.
like all the others in that cause says Blaine will
be elected.
Now that Ohio has been bought by the Blaine
ites their next move it is understood will be
upon the South, or rather some States of it-Vir-
rinis, West Virginia. North Carolina and Florida
smong the number. It is rumored they have
Few trick to play in those States upon the
of which they base great expectations.