Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
FRUM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette. J
WASHINGTON ID C. Oct 2l 1884

formed gentleman from onlO ueTe tO-uay,
in o short talk with the GAzETTEs cores
pondeut about the late election in his Stale,
said there was an unquestonaDie denao-
cratic msj ority there, aud that with al eiec-
ton that even appropriated iair one tna'
majority would have declared ltseli; put Tue
Blaineiles determined to carry IL by 1rauo
and intimidation, and that as only resort
TO omen force would have prevented their
success and as such resort would have
hrouuht on a bloody riot, the Govern
or of the State and the Mayor of Gin
ciunati. with the incidents of the re-
cent riot in that city fresh i'll their mem
orv. were deferred from doing what per-
hans the governors aud mayors OF more
Southern S;a!es and cities would have done
under similar circumstances. Continuing,
he said The Dianeites have made up their
minds to elect thCr man, and what they
did in Ohio they will repeat in Indiana ana
New York, the only difference being that
their action in the latter States Will he even
more outrageous than they were In inc
former and though Cleveland Is Governor
of New York and will have the power to
Irevent or thwart them there, he Will De
deferred FROM exercising IL by the same
fear Northern democrats, he said, unlike
yonr men of the South, are afraid of assum-
ing The responsibility, even when clearly
right of actions that may result in
bloodshed, and the Blaineites, aware of
this fact, will presume upon it. If Gov
ernor Hoadley or the Mayor Of Gin.
cinnati had possessed the requisite nerve
last Tuesday, said he, large force
would have swept ont of that city the tif-
teen hundred imported negroes and roughs
armed by the federal government and act
ing ms deputy marshals, who voted as often
as they pleased, and who shot down demo
Gratis at, drove others away from, and deter
red other from going to the polls, and instead
of going republican it would have given a
large democratic majority. The result OF
the Presidential election TWO weeks from to-
day, he said, will depend altogether upon
the nerve of the democrats in Indiana aud
Governor Cleveland in New York. The
instant and vigorous execution of the State
laws in those States on Tat day will secure
them both to the democrats, but the slight.
est manifestation of disposition to submit
to the methods of fraud and intimidation
that will unquestionably be adopted by the
Blaneites, will have the same result as that
in Ohio The majority ofthe voters in both
those States, he saba democratic, but the
democrats will he swnded and robbed OF
t: en- unless they show more nerve than
they did in Ohio.
A private letter received here to-day from
member of the democratic State commit
tee of Connecticut, says he has every reason
to believe that that State will 60 for Cleve
land, and that the Congressional represen-
taton will be as it is in the present Con-
gress-three democrats and one republican.
Butler, he says, has his speakers in every
town in the State, and was doing the DEM
ocrats some harm, but now that the work.
ingmen have become convinced that he is
the psid agent of Blaine to defeat Cleve
land that harm, he thinks, has all been
remeaied.
Mr.. Linden Kent, who returned from
New York this morning. says The friends OF
Governor Cleveland there are perfectly
confident Of his election, and that the odds
with the bettois are in favor of him. The
Irish detection, be says, will amount to
little to no; hing, and that the number OF
independent republican votes Cleveland
will receive will be surprisingly large. The
rumors of Taumany treachery, he says, are
not credited, but are doing Cleveland good
by bringing 10 him the support of men who
oppose Tammany.
Senator Plumb, who has been campaign :
ing in Virginia with General Malone, pass
ed through here last night on his way to
New York The Senator doesn't seem to
be overly sanguine Of Blaine's success in
Virginia but will do what can be done to-
ward sending his friend General Malone
some campaign money, iC the wise determi-
nation Of Blaine, who is running his own
campaign, to waste no money on the South
be not irreVocable.
Mr.. Palmer, index clerk Of the House,
who has Just returned from the southwest
section Of Virginia, says that internal reve-
nue. gaugerS, Storekeepars and other EN-
ployees Of the Government are swarmlng
there, and that the negroes are enrolled and
mnssed under their scalawag leaders, but
that the white people outnumber them,
and that both Cabell and Daniel will be
sent back TO Congress.
Among the strangers in the city to- day is
ex-Gov. VIM Smith, of Virginia. The Gov
ernor says it il: strange that the democrats
of States having legitimate democratic ma
jorities should allow the republicans to car
ry those States.
Congressman Ben Wilson and Colonel
Syms, of West Virginia, are 10 the city TO
day. They say that Cleveland's majority
there will be from ten to fifteen thousand
without any doubt. Wilson, Windy Wilson
they call him. who has just been elected
Governor by five or six thousand ma GRITTY,
they say is unpopular, had the railroad in
terests against him, and WAS traded of for
county officers. None of these influences,
they say will be operative against Cleve.
land, and that not only will he carry the
State by the majority named, hut that the
Congressional representation from the Slate
will be soldly democratic.
A large number Of strangers, among them
many Firginians, are in the city to-day, at
tracted by the races.
Col. l.. q. Washington, Of this city, will
address the white people Of Westmoreand
county Virginia at their Court House on the
9th inst.
All the clerks in the departments here
were called upon to day for contributions
to the fund for celebrating what it pleases
the Blaineites TO call their late victory in
Ohio. 1t is needless to say that nearly ev-
cry one paid up like man, for they know
their names are listed and marked for flu
ture reference. 1t is understood that most