Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-10
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents Of the Alexandria daseiee'I
WASHINGTON. D. O., Nov. 10. 1884

Almost every body here has now settled
down TO the conviction that Cleveland mas
not only been elected, but will be inaugu-
rated, and those affected by his election are
making their arrangements accordingly
Secretary Mcpherson, OF the republican
campaign committee, says
tb.ra il no use IN holding out any longer
a s;nst the inevitable. Congressman James,
I'm blican from Brooklyn, who is here to.
dav saws that Cleveland is elected, and will
hs az declared. Even Mr. Davenport, the
famous ] ohnny of U. S.marshalship o otoii. ~,
savs he has seen nothing since Tuesday,
when be said Cleveland was elected, to in
duce him to change his mind on that SUBJ
iect. Secretary McCulloch of the Treasury
yoes so far as 10 say that all the indications
I,oint to the election of Cleveland, and Mr..
H.tton. Postmaster General, though he did
ali he could to elect Blaine, but did it half.
heartedly, is now denounced by some OF the
Blaineites here for not only concediDg
CIeyeand's election, but for expressing sa:-
isfaction at Baine's defeat. There is some
speculalion upon the course the Blaineites
will pursue in their efforts to oppose the
nouuIar will, but the belief of the
most knowing men here is that they will
not prosecute those efforts much further, rs
thew must see that they will not be support
ed therein by large portion of their own
marty, who are not willing to allow the bust
ness stagnation necessarily incident to the
present uncertain state of political affairs
10 exist any longer. Then too, they say,
that any attempt to count Cleveland out
will he forcibIy resisted, that there arc
thousands of men in New York who would
make the exercise of such force an excuse
for looting that city, and that in such a con
tingency the republicans would necessarily
be the principal sufferers, and that the lat
ter. knowing this as well as anybody else,
are not going to subject themselves to any
such dan5er. That the attempt referred to is
by no means popular with the better class
OF Blsin IS supporters is proved by the
decl!narion of several of the gentlemen ask.
ed 10 take part in it by becoming visiting
Statesmen"
Senator Z=b. Vance, who was invite d
to speak at Alexandria at the grand
demo cratic jubilation to be held there on
Wednesday, has been compelled to decline
for the reason that he has accepted similar
one for Danville on the same day. The
people of Danyile he now looks upon as
his constituents, as they have none of their
own in the L s. Senate. About the cleo
ton, Mr. Vance says he feels like Falstatf,
and would to tod il " ere we'll over He
says he would like to debauch with his par
ty friends in Alexandria, but will do so not
at this but at some other time.
Some of the department clerks here who
bet on Blaine, having abandoned all hope
of winning, have informed the police officers
of the fact of their bets, Of the parties with
whom they did bet, and OF the shareholders
They have done this in order that the mat
ter may be brought before Judge Smell, Of
the Police Court, who, according to his pre-
vious decisions, will decide all bets illegal
and direct the stakes to be withdrawn.
Secretary Garland is in the city to-day,
and was in attendance upon the y. S. Su-
preme Court He, likealmost every body else,
thinks that Cleveland is elected, and hopes
that the business of the country will not be
injured by any prolonged opposition on the
part of the republicans to accepting as final
The expressed wish of the people.
The cabinet makers are numerous to-day.
All Of them have Mr. Thurman on their
states, and nearly all say the South will
have three members, that Virginia will
have one of them, aud that if so it will fall
to Mr. Barbour
Mr.. Eustace Gibson, of West Virginia, is
in the city to-day. He says he has been re
elected by three hundred sjority, but that
a dead set was made at him by the protec-
tionists, and that money and all other con-
ceivable sorts Of Influence were exerted
against him.
Mr.. Bisbee, republican member of the
House from Florida. is in the city to-day.
He was defeated for re- election at the recent
election. He has been defeated candidate
often before, but this is the first time that
his defeat was 80 pronounced that 1t de-
prived him utterly of all grounds for a
contest.
Intelligence here to- day from Toledo,
Ohio, is to the effect that Mr.. Hurd, having
become convinced that his defeat was
bought with money and effected by fraud,
has determined to contest.
There is rumor to the effect that Com-
missioner Dudley will now he allowed to
withdraw his resignation, and will resume
his duties at the Pension Office, but it Ia
thought that even President Arthur will
not permit such an outrage as that would
be to be perpetrated upon the civil service.
The President has returned from New
York, and now has with him five members
of his cabnet-Messrs. Frelinghuysen, Nc,
Culloch, Lincoln, Brewster and Hatton
Mr.. Brewster has been absent from the city
nearly six months, during which time he
has been disporting himself at Newport and
attending to his private business in Phila-
delphia.
Mr.. McAddo, democratic member of the
House from New Jersey says the democrats
will not attempt much Legislation at the
next session of Congress, but will content
themselves with the passage Of the neces.
sary appropriation bills, and leave other
legislation until it can have the approval Of
President Cleveland. and that two of the
new bills President Cleveland will want to
sign will be national bankruptcy bill, and
one restoring General Ftz John Porter to
his rank in the army.
Mr.. w. w. Corcoran is 80 much pleased
with the election of President Cleveland
that be has given the democratic COM
mittees here check for s. 500, sufficient to
pay all the debts they have incurred dur
ing the campaign.
The body OF the unfortunate man Thomp-