Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
WARRINGTON, D. G., Sept. 4, 1884.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., Sept 4. 1854.
A gentleman from Alexandria here to-day
who has been driving on the roads in Mary
land, in talking about the way they compar-
ed with those in Virginia, said that he had
always been taught TO believe that Northern
people, for love of easy driving, for the re-
sulting increased value Of their lands, and
for ecouomy 5 sake, inasmuch as one horse
can pull as much on good road as two can
ON a bad one, had good roads, but That his
ideas in that respect mad been changed by
recent drive on the road leading from Alex
andria to and through the Northern settle
ment below that city, for that in all his life
he had rarly in the summer seen such bad
road a. that is.
As General Mahones party has collapsed,
AMI az that fact is as patent TO those who
followed him forotiice as it is to any body else,
they are not laggard in letting people
know that they have left The General now
That his power has gone. Several Of them
are now in this city, and though once the
Generals most obsvquous followers, they
now seem TO gloat over his discontinue.
Among the sight seers at the Capitol to-
day was u stranger from New York. One
of the guides in showing him the objects of
interest about the place and explaining
them, pointed ont the Vice Presidents
chair, aud told him to sit in it and feel how
com Portable it was. The stranger replied
that he Was republican, and that he did
not want to sit in chair that was soon to
be occupied by that Internal old democrat,
Tom Hendricks.
The parties who were recently here to see
about the landing of imported rags are
Northern NEIL engaged in large commercial
enterprises. Though not politicians in any
sense of the word they have always voted
the republican ticket. In talking to friends
about the political outlook in their respec-
tive States they said that the war feeling had
pretty well died out, and that as there was
now little difference in the principles of the
two parties, most Of their acquaintance
were going to vote for the man they thought
would do most to effect reform in and re-
store honesty to the government, and that
the record shows that Mr.. Blaine is not that
man.
Mr.. klotz, ex.member of the House from
Pennsylvania, is in the city to-day. He
says that while the republican majority in
Pennsylvania is almost too great to hope
that it will he overcome, still the large
German vote in that State, and the objec-
lion many Of the native republicans have
to voting for man who is proved to have
prostituted the Speakership to private gain,
will reduce that majority so great that he
would not be surprised if it were lost
entirely.
Judge Thoman, of the civil service COM
mission, left here last night for Ohio. As
heretofore stated in this correspondence the
Judge, upon his recent arrival here, said
that strange rs it might seem Ohio stood a
good chance of going democratic. Prev-
Gus to leaving last night he was asked if he
was of the same opinion still, and he re-
piled, Eyes, and more so.'
Republicans here to. day from Rhode Is
land say that Mr.. Jonathan Chase, republic
can member of the House from that State,
will probably be MIR. Authony's successor
in the Senate. Mr.. Chase is as pronounced
party man as was Mr.. Anthony.
Mr.. E. John Ellis has just returned from
New York. He says that when there he
called at the rooms of the national demo
cratic com nittee aud upon asking for the
latest reliable news, had bundle of letters,
just opened, presented to him, aud was
told to look at them and judge for himself.
He says be did So, and rose from their peru
sal convinced that nothing can defeat
Cleveland. He says that though the dem
ocratic managers will not be surprised at
the majority Cleveland will receive, the
country will be astounded. While the
changes, he says, are general throughout all
the States, they are most pronounced in the
Northwest, where a political revolution
seems to have taken place. Mr.. Ellis says
he has been informed that the Malone
ties have called meeting at the same
time and place in Virginia at which he has
an appointment to speak, and that Sen
ator Hawley is announced to address
it, but that if Mr.. Hawley be present. he,
Ellis, will invite him to joint discussion,