Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-31
FROM WASHINGTON.


Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. g., Oct. 81, 1884.
Mr.. F. John Ellis is in the city to-day On
his return for u canvassing tour in the south
western portion Of Virginia, the 9th district.
He says that the Malone organization in
that district as we'll as in the entire State is
composed Of negroes attached to a skeleton
Of federal employees, that the reputable
element Of the community is democratic,
that nearly all the reputable democrats who
left their party on the debt question have
come back to it, that Trigg the democratic
candidate there will be elected by from
fifteen hundred to two thousand majority,
and that the State will give Cleveland a
majority of twenty thousand.
Mr.. St. Clair Denver, q citizen of Califor.
MIA, and brother of General Denver, is in
receipt of letters from different parts of his
State, the aggregate tenor of which is to
the effect that all four Of the Congressional
districts of that State will send democrats
to Congress, and that the State will give a
democratic majority In this connection it
may be remarked that Mr.. Henley, one of
the democratic candidates for Congress
there, aud who is Virginian, is objected to
upon the ground that having been in the
Confederate service and not surrendering,
but going to Mexico and joining Maximil
ian's army, and taking the oath of al
legiance to the Mexican government,
which allegiance he has never formally re-
nounced, he is still Mexican and that, too,
though he has taken the oaths required to
be judge in California and member of
the U. S. House Of Representatives. He is
objected to also upon the ground that by
voting to consider the Morrison bill he
showed his opposition to the wool grazing
interest of his State, and this, too though
the Morrison bill did not affect that inter-
est at all, as wool was specially excluded
from its provisions.
Large numbers of negroes are still pass
ing through here TO Virginia to vote for
Blaine next Tuesday Though the regis
closed last Saturday, those who are sending
these negroes there say they have so ar.
ranged matters that they can have them
registered up to the day of election. Have
the democrats of Virginia made similar ar.
rangements about having their voters reg
istered?
Mr.. Calhoun, who passed through here
last night on his way South from New
York, says that republicans there concede
that New York will go for Cleveland, but
believe that their arrangements for buy.
ing some of the Southern States will succeed
and that thereby they can elect Blaine with
out New York. He says that John Kelly
is rather under than over the mark when he
says that New York City will give Cleve-
land forty.fve thousand majority.
An old and we'll known citizen Of Lou
doun county, Va, here to day, says that
some of Mahone's campaign money has al.
ready reached that county, and that at
tempts have already been made by Is
means to buy up the men who usually act as
democratic ticket holders at the polls; but
that none Of such attempts have succeeded,
and that the men to whom the proposition
was made rejected it scornfully. He also
says that many Of the straightout republic
cans In his county can not stomach Ma
homes electoral ticket, composed, as it is,
entirely of democratic scalawags and OF
such unstable republicans as Mr.. Lewis Nc
Kenzie, who ran against the regular repub-
lican candidate for Congress, and who voted
against the regular republican candidate for
the Presidency.
Every man at all familiar with the pro-
ceedings of the last session of Congress
knows full we'll that the democrat, and es.
pecially the Southern men in that body wei Q
in favor of the Educational bill. But it may
not be so we'll kn ,wn that the failure of the
House to pass that bill, after it had passed
the Senate by the votes of democrats, was
due solely and entirely to the republicans,
and that when Mr.. Aiken, democratic
member from South Carolina, chairman of
the Committee on Education, at what he
thought was favorable moment, moved to
take the bill from the Speakers table and
hayeit referred to his committee, who would
have reported it favorably at once, Mr.. H 3.
cock, republican of New York, and one of
Mr.. Blaine's ERNEST supporters, objected
and thus killed the bill for that season. as
the House was SO pressed with appropria-
fion bills necessary for carrying on the
government that the favorable opportunity
for considering it was never repeated.
Mr.. DeZendorf left here again last night
for Virginia to speak for Mahone's electoral
ticket and Congressional candidates. He
is so biased by his newly-inspired love for
the man who treated him so badly and
whom he was so recently denouncing that
be believes he will carry the State, or rath-
or, he says he does.
Mr.. McCulloch was sworn into Office as
Secretary of the Treasury to day, and re-
ceived the congratulations of the chiefs of !,
divisions of that department. and of other