Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria aazettel
WASHINGTON. ID. c., August %, 1884.

RESIGNATION is to take effect i'll September.
The reason assigned for this is that the
B}aiucites of Indiana are dissatisfied with
The way Mr.. John G. New, the present
chairman of their State committee, is man.
aoinp their campaign, and that they want
Mr.. Dudley, who has done effective work
there before To take control OF their affairs.
Mr.. Dudley. il is SAID, would have acceded
10 their wishes before but has been waiting
for a promise of better place than his
nreseul one ia case Of Blaine's election.
That promise, il is now said has been CIV
en-. and hence the resignation. MIR. bud
iev's successor, it is said, will he Mr.. Beaver
of PENNSYLVANIA, the defeated republican
candidate for Governor of his State at the
last election.
Secretary Post, of the democratic con
gressionul committee, Is engaged to day in
Efforts to detect the parties in the Senate
document room who have palmed off on
him republican campaign documents, which
he has had distributed under democratic
frank.
For the frs: time in seventeen years the
walls OF the Two wings Of the Capitol are
feiug cleaned and thereby whtenel Con-
gress appropriated So 900 for this work.
The cleansing material is pumice stone
from Akron, Ohio.
Ever since the fuss about civil service re-
form was raised political committees of both
parties have ceased to use the Capitol build
ing for campaign purposes, but it is said to-
day that General Malone, who allows no
such things as laws of Congress to oppose
his will, has ordered the room of the Senate
committee on Foreign Relations TO be put
in order for him, and that he will conduct
his campaign from that room.
Senator Rildleberger is in the city o.day,
on his way home from Richmond, where he
has been consulting with some of his party
friends. The Senator is by no means as
much enamored of Mahone as he used to
be, but like all the rest of the bosSs follow
ers he is afraid TO oppose his slightest whim
a remarkable Instance oflhis subserviency
of the Mahoncites To their leader was afford
ed by the proceedings OF the recent caucus
of his members of the Legislature. 10 that
caucus 1T its commencement nothing could
be heard except sentiments Of opposition TO
Malone, but before it adjourned not q word
of such opposition could be heard except
that which came from General Wickh ham.
Judge Sener, of Frederick sburg is among
the strangers in the city to day. He says
he thinks that the democratic nomination
for Congress in that district lies between
Judge Garrison, the present member. and
Mr.. Thomas Croxon, of Essex county. He
does not know who will be the republican
nominee, but says he has not announced
himself. He says the district is close one,
and that the election will depend upon the
candidates and the amount of work done.
a well.informed republican politician
do, hof
Notwithstanding the surface indications,
there is no love lost between Senator Cam
eron and Mr. Blaine, and that Cameron is
so arranging affairs that he can avail him
self of the opportunity afforded by the ger
rymander of the legislative districts ofcarry-
ing the Legislature in his own interest,
while allowing the State to 70 for Cleve-
land by twenty thousand majority.
A sporting man who left New York last
night, here to-day, says that before he left
New York he saw the forfeit put up Of a
bet of ten thousand to twenty-five hundred
dollars. that Click, the present democratic
Governor of Kansas, would he reelected.
Col Jack Brown, of Georgia, o Southern
republican, says his State will give Cleve-
land its usual ma GRITTY. He also says that
after LougStrect and his wing of the repub-
lican party--among which are some of the
veal. hiest men in the State-had nominated
all electoral ticket composed entirely of
white men, Bryant ard the negro wing
also nominated tickle composed altogether
of white men, and that the latter action
was the result of the request of the State
republican committee, composed in part of
negroes. he negroes in the State be says,
have gotten into their heads the idea that
this was done at the Instance OF the Blaine
managers, ami that, consequently, their
support of the 'plumed knight" is not as
enthusiast. c as it nigh otherwise have been
But, as he said before, the negroes have
ceased to be an important factor in Georgia
elections.
Mr.. Gon, republican member of the House
from West Virginia, is in the city to-day
He says the republicans have good chance
of carrying his State, and that to secure
success they will spend all the money they
can get egilimately. Democrats from the
same State say Mr.. Golf only receives re-
publican intelligence, and that the State is
as sure for Cleveland as Georgia.
A Northern democrat, an Irish Catholic,
in the city to-day. when asked about the
reported detection in the Irish and Catholic
vote, said that so far AS the religious ques-
ton was invclvcd there was nothing in it,
but that it was fact that at present few
of the less Intelligent Irshmen did believe
that if Blaine were President he would de-
clare war against England and thereby give
them an opportunity to fight for their coun-
try- liberty, but that ali that illusion would
be dis-irated long before The day of election,
and hat Gu that day all democratic Irish
men would vote as they have heretofore
done.
D,sp,trbfs received at the NAVY DeDart.
menl this morning from Commander Merry,
who was in command of the Tallapoosa say:
L have TO report that WIN. O'Donnelson
and VIM. + Jones, landsmen, are missing.
They were seen BY men on hoard the Gate
City and are supposed to have remained on
board asleep"
BENNIE BUTLER is aspiring and conspir.