Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispecisl Correspondents of the Alexandria Gazette

WASHINGTON ID. c.. Oct. 25. 1884.
A we'll known Virginia democratic poll
tician in the city to-day who passed through
Richmond last night on his way from the
southwest portion of his State, says the
democratic meeting in Richmond last night
was the largest political demonstration ever
made there, and that the white people of
that city cay they will elect their candidate
for Congress by an increased majority. Re-
specting the 9th Congressional district, he
says that Trigg's majority will be from one
thousand to two thousand. He says that
Mr.. Watts, the Malone marshal of the dis
trict, and who is running the Malone cam
paign there, only claims 400 majority for
Bailey, the Malone candidate in Tazewell,
which at the last election gave the Ma
honeites over 700. He also says that Bal.
ley loses votes wherever he goes, and would
have made better run if he had staid at
home during the whole time. Lee county,
also once strong Malone county, he says,
will give Trigg large majority, and 80
will other formerly Malone counties in
that s,rict. Many of the democi attic
readjusters have come back to their
old party, and others, who are asham-
ed to come back, say they are not re-
pubicans and will not go to the polls at all.
He says that Mr.. John Wise is in that coun-
try campaigning that he is dressed in
hunting suit, aud that with his dog he hunts
from one village to another, shooting and
speakiog as he goes, but making no con.
verts, MS the people think that men who
address them should at least have enough
respect for them to wear "store cloths"
At democratic headquarters here to-day
it is claimed that the democratic majority
in the next, will be fully equal to that in the
present House, and some say that though the
general impression is that the republicans
will retain control Of the Senate, the tidal
wave that will sweep the North on the 4th
proximo will carry democratic majority
into that body.
A letter received here to- day from post
master in Texas who had been asked the
names of the democratic and republican
candidates for Congress in his district says
that Lanham, democrat, is running without
nomination and without opposition, and
that his election only depends upon his life.
Mr.. Lanham's place is the softest of all his
colleagues.
A letter received here this morning from
Mr.. ]. K. Tucker, who is candidate for
reelection to Congress in the Staunton dis
trict, says that things are not only all right
but lovely in that district, and that he will be
elected by a satisfactory majority. Mr..
fuckers is one of the districts in the State
in which the Congressional candidate has
explained the tariff to the voters, and show.
ed the farmers the burdens that were i'm
posed upon them by tariff that compels
them to pay 500 for certain pillow which
the manufacturers can afford to and do send
to Canada and sell for S11.
Private letters here to. day from Indiana
IL, Sc al 4
the democrats there are becoming more and
more assured of their success. They say
that Hendricks, Voorhees, and Mcdonald
are directing the campaign, with Colonel
Henderson, the chairman Of the State COM
mittee, to carry their directions into execu-
ton; that nothing except fraud and intimi-
dation can prevent the democrats from
getting majority, and that Henderson is
the very man to make q successful resort 10
those means impossible.
For the last week large numbers of
negroes have left here, bound South, some
to Virginia and some to North Carolina.
1t would not be amiss for the democrats in
both those States to notice this and see that
imported negroes are not allowed to vote.
There are thousands of negroes in this city
who have no right to vote Ia Virginia, but
who 60 to that state as regularly as cleo
tions come and cast ballots for the republi-
can nominees.
At last the full vote of Ohio at the recent
election has been published, and it affords
the republicans no ground for being san
guine concerning the result of the vote to
be taken there on the 4th proximo, mas
much as it shows that Robinson, the head
Of their ticket, lacks 2,lo0:ot majority of
the votes cast, and that the average majori-
ty of their candidates was only 900.
It seems to be the prevailing idea here to-
day that the republicans finding the odds
against them in New York, caused by the
detection Of the independent members of
their party there, too great to be over
come, have practically abandoned the
fight in that State though keeping
up the show OF campaign there, and
have concentrated their efforts upon Indi'
ana and Connecticut. The betting here as
in New York on that State is in the ratio of
81 900 to 500 in favor of Cleveland.
Dir. J. J. Barker, who recently resigned clerk |
ship in the Treasury department, and who has !
written the President open letter making |
charges of gross frauds in that department says |
he is ready to prove that the people of the United
States have been robbed of millions of dollars.