Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-24
FROM WASHINGTON.


A prominent gentleman not in polltlcs,
and who doesn't like to have bis name pup
lished, is in the city to-day, from limos,
where he has lived aud prospered Tor Inc
last twenty wears. He says that the prom
hilton movement and the action OF the Nj.
T Conference of that State in advising the
members of that conference to vote Tor ot.
Iohn the intention Of the Germans to vote
for cleveland, and the detection among the
more reputable portion of the American
element of the republican party, have In
sn;red The democrats there with lively
hone Of carrying that State, and that repub-
Leans there are manifesting their alarm IN
WAYS that are plain to be seen. =,
Mr.. Quinn, an Irish Catholic, once OF
Lynchburg, Virginia, but now and for many
wears prosperous banker in Philadelphia,
now here, SAYS that among all his acqualn-
lance of his own race and religion he does
not know five who will vote for Blaine, ana
that with all the known elements IN FAVOR OF
Cleveland he does not see how ne can Dc
defeated
AT democratic headquarters to-day letters
from Iowa say that half the successful cleo
toral ticket of that State will be Cleveland
men. Letters from all sections of the coun-
try bring cheering news, and indicate the
success Of the democratic ticket by tidal
wave majority.
In to two o'clock to-day there was moth
ing at the Treasury Department to Indicate
Secretary Folger's successor.
Letters received here from the 5th Vir-
ginia district report that Col. Cabell VIII De
re elected by a large majority.
r. is report,d here. but on authority by
no means reliable, that General Malone
tioual republican committee the official en-
dorsement of his Presidential electoral tick
ct will now, in The plenitude of his power,
exercise the generosity Of recognized boss,
and hy withdrawing from that ticket the
names of some Of the democratic scalaWags
now on il. substitute for them those of a
few who have heretofore at least voted the
,epubliran ticket once The statement is also
made on the same authority That Mahone
will be supplied with some money by the
uationa! republican committee. aud that be
is already quietly engaged in arranging his
plans for getting out the solid negro vote OF
his State, and that he hopes by stimulating
Irish detection in the democratic ranks
TO increase his vote to the extent
If preventing the democrats from gaining
ns many Congressman as they hope to.
There is no doubt about the fact that some
prominent republican politicians have been
induced, either 10y their friendship for Ma
hone or by his deception, to believe that be
is still politically alive, and acting upon
this erroneous belief they have advised the
national committee to appropriate some OF
their money to his campaign fund The
TACT that Mr.. Tucker returned a check for
one thousand dollars to u political admirer
in Philadelphia. who had sent it to him as q
means for prosecuting his canvass, has salts
lied tue politicians referred to that Virginia
democrats know nothing about the manage
:nent OF modern politics, and that with the
:. quisite amount Of soap" large republican
yains are possible in the old State.
Mr.. X F. Howard a prominent business
man of Milwaukee, now here, says that
among the voters of that city already re-
| ristel ed are five thousand who have hereto
| fore been republicans, and who will vote
he republican State ticket in November,
huG who, at the same time, will vote for
| Cleveland As the republican majority in
| Wisconsin is only about ten thousand this
change alone will be sufficient to effect the
entire destruction of that majority.
grain dealer Of Ohio known indeed 81 the
Corn King of the Ohio Valley, and not a
politician, now here, says that Cincinnati is
all right for the democrats, that Ben. But
terworth will he the worst defeated man
| who ever ran for Congress in that city, that
he city of Cleveland is the same way, that
| 4 large per cent Of The Germans will vote
| for Cleve and and that be thinks the State
safe even in the Decentralization.
A well known lawyer in this city says
that Blaine must be naturally corrupt, as in
addition to the other charges against him is
one to the effect that an American who had
land claim in New Zealand applied to
| him when Secretary of State to do some.
thing to have that claim confirmed by Eng.
land, but was given to understand that a
share of the claim would he likely to stimu.
late its pressure. IF this be So how would
the Treasury. with its hundreds of millions
of surplus. escape being plundered with Mr.
| Blaine as President?
AN old ey-army officer from Georgetown,
Kentucky, but now resident in New York
having been written TO by a friend anxious
to know the truth of the Blaine scandal
replied that he had lost the run of affairs in
his old town, but that his idea of the pre-
vailing opinion there about the matter is
that the charge is not without foundation.
| The republicans here are considerably depressed
| to-day in consequence of the urgent appeals for
| soap the New York Tribune is making to the
office holders and the plunderers who have profit
ed by republican sway
| THE WRECK OF THE WAsP.-As stated in yes
| hn pr;ticI rnpLo,t Nr,er urn.