Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazette.l
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 81. 1884.

WASHINGTON, d. c., July 81, 1884.
Mr.. w. r SIMS the one nan in the Ma
honeite party in Virginia who will not &C
knowledge The bossship of Malone, is in the
city to. day on his return from New York
While there he called at republican head.
quarters, but he says that what he stated
there has been incorrectly reported in the
newspapers. He says that he represented
ut headquarters condition of affairs in Vir-
ginia entirely at variance with the repre-
sentation made by Malone, and that he
has every reason to believe that his represen-
'taton, and not that Of Malone, was credited
He also says that his personal relations
with Malone are not friendly and that he
has not spoken to him since he Sims voted
for Blaine at Chicago.
Mr.. Dezendorf has also returned from
New York. He went there TO see if nothing
could be done by which the two wings Of
the republican party in his State could be
brought together, but is by no means salts
fed with the result of his mission. He says
that Malone will make no concessions,
preferring ruin than not to rule, and
that the result, 50 far at least as can
be seen at present, will he two re-
publican electoral tickets in the State,
and consequent loss to Blaine of from
twenty five TO thirty thousand votes. He
says the white republicans of Virginia are
not "apostates for the price Of their apos-
tacy," and that as freemen they cannot
bow the knee to Malone and cknowledge
themselves to he his AFFECT slaves, even at
the request of the national republican COM
mittee.
One of the presidential electors appoint
ed by the republican convention of Virginia
is in the city to day. He says he does not
think that Malone will make any conces-
sions to the white republicans of his State,
and will insist that they shall vote his cleo
toral ticket, composed as it is of eleven
democrats and one republican ofliceholder
and that that, and the fact of the known i'll
feeling between Malone and Blaine will
prevent any thing like republican enthusi-
asm in the Virginia campaign.
Senator Beck was among the callers at
democratic headquarters here to-day. He
was in exuberant spirits over the bright
prospects of his party, and said that never
before had there been such unmistakable
evidence of the success of the democratic
ticket at SO early stage of the campaign.
Among the strangers in the city to-day is
Mr.. Charles F. Mckenna, well-informed
gentleman of Pennsylvania, who is on his
way to see his relatives in Virginia He
gives most hopeful account of democratic
prospects in his State, saying that the talk
about the detection in the Irish Catholic
democratic vote is all bosh, but that the
detection among the republicans is wide
spread and growing. He mentions as in
stances of the latter detection the fact that
Mr.. Il. G. Lea, a leading book publisher of
Philadelphia, who has heretofore been
prominent republican, and Col. Levy Bird
Duff, who ran for Lieutenant Governor on
the last republican ticket in that State, have |
declared their intention Of supporting Gov
ernor Cleveland.
1t is understood here that Senator Cor
man, of Maryland, chairman of the demo-
cratic Congressional committee, will be
made chairman of the national democratic
committee, as he is young, active, an adept
in party management, and has the conf
dence of those who will subscribe to the
democratic fund that every cent of their
will be expended in the cause,
and that, too, in the most judicious and eff.
fective manner.
A letter received here to-day from young
Virginian, who is visiting his relatives in
Boston, says that all the people who have
talked to him on the subject of the Presi-
dental election have been republicans, but |
Illat tuey Ill LOlu utlu Iuey Intended 10 vote |
for Cleveland, and that Cleveland would in
that State alone receive the votes of twenty
thousand men who never before in all their
lives have voted any other than the repub-
lican ticket.
General Malone is advertised as one of |
the speakers at the Blaine and Logan rati-
fication meeting to be held at Harrisonburg,
Va. to-day.
Mr. Barbour is in the city to-day. He |
says there will be an extra session of the |
Legislature, but that nothing will be done at
it except the perfection of the election laws.
He will leave for New York on Wednesday
to attend meeting on the oath of the ma
tional democratic committee, of which he is
q member, and at which chairman of that
committee will be elected. He says that of
ali the men spoken of as candidates for the
democratic Presidential nomination Cleve-
and was the only one who bad any chance
If obtaining it, and that subsequent events,
moving the strength of the other candidates,
proves that to be fact.
Secretary Lincoln has returned here from
New York. Secretary Folger has gone to
Sew York. Neither one of these gentle