Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
snacisl CORRESPONDENCE OF the AlexanorIs Gazette.
- Can't % 1904

executive committee of the State central
committee, of both Of which he Is chairman.
He SAYS that al! the members Of that com.
mi,tee brouyh, favorable accounts from
their rcspec;ive districts, and that he thinks
the State will give the democrats fully as
laro, q maiciity as il did last year, when
thu made a supreme effort. He says he
had sueciai reports from the districts CT
Messrs. Daniel, fucker, Trigg and OFerral',
~ hirh indicated bat each OF these gentie-
men would he elected by satisfactory ma
iorities. He says the committee were IN
formed that owing to the confidence gene
rally felt and expressed in large majority
for the democratic ticket, there was not
much political excitement in the STATE, out
that the committee would soon issue an
address to the anti-Blaineltes ana sehu
sneakers to each of the several counties,
and adopt such other legitimate campaign
means as will, he thinks, be sufficient, with
Tho aid Of the local organizations, TO bring
ont olI the vote on the day Of election. His
advices from the executive committee OF
the national democratic committee, OF which
he ia also a member, are of the most favor
chile character. Dlr. Barbour will go to
New York next Sunday to confer with that
c mmit:ee.
Il is repo:ted that Commissioner Dudley
Of the Pension Bureau, before he commenced
his clectioneeripg work in Ohio, made
close collection of political assessments from
all the employees in that bureau, both mere
and throughout the country, and took the
sum with him, being better able than tne
national committee to place 1t where IL VIII
do the most good.
letter received here this morning from
Ohio states that Mr.. c. J. Jewett, son OF the
famous ex. president of the Erie Railroad,
is among the many prominent men In that
Stale VINO are confident it will 60 demo-
cratic. Another letter from there says that
Mr., Stansbury. nephew of the late Attorney
Gsnc,.l is among the many OHIO republi-
cans who intend to vote for Cleveland on
account Of his reform tariff ideas.
Mr.. J. w. Pence, Il banker of the 9th In
diana district, is in the city to-day. He
saws tina; judging the other portions OF his
State BIZ his own district, there is no doubt
it will go democratic. Mr.. Pence also
states. what other information here tends
TO corroborate, that though he is an
observaut man and is engaged in busl-
ness that makes him acquainted with the
prevailing sentiment Of the people among
whom he lives, he has neither seen nor
heard any lhuG in his State that induces
him to place any reliance upon the report
ed republican detection among the Germans
nor democratic detection among the Irish.
Postmaster Dalton, of the House, from the
same State, says that his intelligence from
there is that Indiana is as safe for Cleveland
as Maine is for Blaine.
The son of Senator Jones, of Florida, who
is his fathers private secretary, and attends
to his correspondence, says that the letters
1 l. ~ Frpn Nnu Work tn
the effect that save the comparatively few
Irishmpn who are in Blaine's pay, the Irish
vote of that State will be cast almost US a
unit for Cleveland aud that Buffers vote
there will disuppoint every body by its lit
tleness, rs although he attracted large crowds
to near him in that State, the men who
would vote for him if he had Il chance OF
election are not The sort who vote in the air.
Mr.. Gresham having been appointed Sec
rotary of tho Treasury, has OF course resign.
ed the position of Post master General. He
left this evening for New York to see how
far be was to 20 toward helping Mr.. Blaine,
leaving Mr.. Coon to act in his place. In
this connection it may he remarked that the
only fears b.. democrats have about the re-
suit Of the coming election is that resulting
from the surplus money in the treasury
which is now subject to the control Of Ores
ham, whose INSCRIPTIONS partisanism as
cabinet officer is only second to that Of
Chandler. They say that though voluntary
contributions supply their committee with
good deal OF money, that committee cannot
be expected to compete successfully with
the hundreds Of millions in the Treasury.
Mr.. Hattou, Assistant Postmaster General,
is acting Postmaster General and WILL it is
generally thought, he appointed to succeed
Mr.. Gresham a. head Of the Postoflice De-
partment. He is 81 light weight, and is only
noted for his hate for the South and his
haste to execute Mahone's orders to substi-
tute democratic scalawags in Virginia for
republicans in the postal service of that
State.
Mr.. Post was on duty again at democrat
c headquarters this morning. He has just
returned from New York, and says that at
the headquarters of the national committee
the latest adyices report every thing rs ia
vorable az any reasonable democrat could
desire. About the reported fusion in his
State, Pennsylvania, he says he knows moth
ing, and that when he asked ex Senator
Wallace in New York yesterday about it,
Mr.. Wallace replied that all be knew of il
was what he had seen in the newspapers.
A large Pile of letters from different sections
this morning, all of them reporting demo.
cratic gains inthe respective neighborhoods
from which they came.
An intelligent republican from Connect
cut in the city day says he hopes and be-
lieves that Cleveland will be elected and
that ali the present Office holders may be
removed, as the aristocracies of the army
and navy are bad enough without the adj
ditional one of the Office holders, who with
out any Of the good, have all the evil quail
ties of the two former.
among the strangers in the city to-day is
real anomaly, a Southern democrat who
wants Blaine elected. But he is one of the
few people of his section who have not un-
dergone reconstruction, and the reason
of his hope is not patriotic. He was
gallant Confederate officer, and in
damp weather still suffers from the griev-
Gus wounds he received while fighting
in the ''lost cause" BY that cause, from
being wealthy, he became poor man,
and is now old, crippled and sour. He hopes
the "plumed knight" may be President,
i r. IL