Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of tho Alexandra iazettel
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. 4, 1884.

respOndence soon alter the ulsmounleu
knight was nominated, has recently re-
turned from prolonged visit to his State,
and says that to him it seems hardly PROB
able that that State can go republican on
the 18th instant Mr.C. w. Moulton, from
the same State, Senator Shermans Drotner-
in law. and as we'll informed about Ohio
politics as any other man in that State, is
also in the city, and he too says the demo-
Gratis have the best show for carrying the
State The betting republicans here will
allow no odds on Ohio, nor will they bet on
majorities in that State. But for all this
the staid and sober-sided democrats here say
thew do not think it possible that State can
90 democratic, for the reason that the re-
publcans can not afford to let it go that
wav, as should it do so the general election
in November would go for Cleveland by
default.
There is an idea prevalent among office.
holders here that even in the now generally
conceded improbable event OF Baine's cleo.
ton they will be no more secure III their
positions than they will be if Cleveland he
successful, as so great are the straits TO
which Blaine is reduced that it will require
more offices than the blue book contains TO
fulfil his promises. For this reason all OF
them are looking out for the future, and
those who have what they consider the
requisite influence are seeking life positions.
Among the latter are Secretary Gresham
and Commissioner Evans, both of whom,
it is said, have secured thepromlse ola Judge
shin from Mr.. Arthur before he leaves the
White House.
On the 1st instant 81 men were discharg-
ed from one room in the Government print.
ing office, and 10 from another, every one OF
hi mol
Printers Union of Washington, composed
chiefly of printers in the Government oiliae'
will soon be enabled to pass the resolution
of ensure upon the New York Union, which
boycotted the New York Tribune, Mr..
Blaines principal organ.
Col. Haskell, of South Carolina, a man
of affairs, passed through here last night on
bis return from New York. He says the
prevailing impression there is chat Cleve-
isnd will have walk over, and that though
there unquestonably was some remarkable
detection among the democratic Irish Cath
olcs soon after Cleveland's nomination, the
| men whom that class of the country's pop
uation respect and believe have taken
the proper steps to dissipate it, and
| that it will all have disappeared before
election day, as those among whom it eX-
| listed will by that time have learned that
there was no cause for it. While the Colonel
was talking, a gentleman from Connecticut
standing by, said that his State was as sure
| for Cleveland as Virginia, and that in his
town, Waterbury, he WAS personally ac-
| quainted with eighty men who had hereto
| fore voted the republican ticket, but who
now intend to vote for Cleveland.
Robert Gaines, colored man from Alex
andria. who has been employed in one Of
the departments Of the government, here,
has been removed because he was not i'll ac-
cord with the Blaine committee of that city.
A gentleman from StauntOn, Virginia,
here to-day, says that Craig, the internal
revenue collector, got up the recent Irish
! American republican convention there,
and appointed the delegates thereto; tina!
that was the way by which the name of
MIR. Edmund Burke. x-Commonwealth's
| Attorney for Alexandria county, was pub
lshed in the newspapers 81 the delegate
from Alexandria,, and that he supposes all
the other published delegates were appoint
| ed in the same way, as most Of them, like
Mr.. Burke, stayed away.
A business man from Alexandria here to-
day says that the business of that city this,
is considerably greater than It was last year,
that the freight between there and New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore is greatly
Fin excess OF that of last year. While
talking about the freight business, he
said that Alexandria possesses facili-
ties for shipment unexcelled by those
of any port on the Atlantic, and
that he himself had shipped freight to
Glasgow cheaper than it could be shipped
from New York. In this connection he also
said that while many people did not think
ha from, biS hing thaf tho
policy adopted by the Virginia Midland
Railroad was az favorable to Alexandria rs
it could possibly be-
Mr.. Riddlebeger was in the city last night,
on his return from New York. He says
that while the republicans there say they
are certain of carrying that State, they are
not so senguine about Ohio
A republican member of the Maryland
Legislature from county in Holton's con-
gre ssional district, here to day, says he is
afraid that Holton will be defeated He
also seems to think that Blaine's chances are
growing smaller by degrees and beautifully
less, and that the contrast between Baine's
swinging round the circle and Cleveland's
staying at home attending to his business,
has helped the latter no little.
Mr.. Barbour was in the city to-day. He
was at King George Court House, in his
district, on Thursday last, when he, Gen.
Hunton, Judge Smith, Major Robert Hunter
and Col. J. Q. Washington made speeches to
a large crowd, composed of the farmers of
the county, while Mr.. Duff Green, Mr.. Bar
bour's Malone opponent, and Judge Good
win, of Norfolk, spoke to smaller crowd,
composed almost entirely of negroes. Mr..
Barbour says that from what be could learn
there, and he had conference with the
county committee, and talked with other
leading men of the county, he is induced to
think that though there is a negro majority
there the county will go democratic.
State Senator Callahan, of Portsmouth,
Virginia, straightout republican, was in
the city yesterday. He says that Mitchell,
the negro candidate for Congress in that
district, will stay on the track, and that il
he does he will get large vote, and Mar
SHALL the democrat, be elected. He, Gala
han, has been asked to do what he can to
save Libby, but as Libby never did any
thing to save him when Malone had him
rap,ovad from ofEpn he thipl-c ba ,-.;l1