Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-11-07
FROM WASHINGTON.
Ispeoial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette

WASHINGTON. y. c.. Nov. Z, 1884
The long pending anxiety is over at last,
and the succeeding certainty is better even
to the defeated than the torturng suspense
to which they have been so long subjected.
To the vic1ors of course the removal OF all
doubt and the acquiescence of the vanquish
ed in the result add to the delight of the
occasion, and so all but the office holders
who expect to be discharged and republi
cans who expected to receive Office under
Blaine are happy and the goose hangs high:
To those who knew what had been and
what was going on there has been 70
doubt of Cleveland's election since Tuesday
night, and it has now been demonstrated
that the general uncertainty prevailing
since then has been due TO Mr.. Jay Gould's
manipulation Of the dispatches, during
| which time he has disposed Of over 72,0UO
shares of Union Pacific stock. That tacl
obtaining publicity naturally provoked
great luminosity toward Mr.. Gould, which
fact was seized upon by the nihilists and
dynamiters of New York, who did not car.
a fig who Was elected, as means to further
their ends, and the impending danger warn
ed MIR. Gould and his gang to hold up, and
induced them this morning to acknowi
edge Cleveland's election, and to advise
Mr.. Blaine to that effect. It was right hard
for them to lose the hundred million due by
the Union Pacific to the Government, and
which will have to be paid now that Cleve-
land is elected, but it was better to lose
that than to run the risk of the greater loss,
and that, too, not confined to property, that
would have resulted from riot in New
York. Republican Office holders, republi.
can newspapers end republican newspaper
correspondents, indeed, everybody now
comedies Cleveaud's election, and jubla.
ton will be general throughout the land.
Notwithstanding all the acknowledge
meDt of and acquiescence III the announced
result of the election referred to above,
there are Of course some to whom that re-
suit is worse than gall and wormwood. One
of these, after reading the bulletin an
nouncing that the agony was over, YVES
heard to mutter something about its being.
"more than flesh and blood could stand for
the id rebels TO come up here and seize
the Government ;" and another, at a differ
cut place. said 1.-THE votes Of the rebel States
ought not to be counted, and that as Blaine
had large majority OF the electoral votes
of the North, he should be declared Pres-
dent" But similar remarks were by no
means frequent, most all the republicans
agreeing that what the people had done
SQOulQ DC SuUlullleu W "tiiDS'y'
Senator Beck says that of course Mr.
Cleveland will not consult him as to the
appointment of bis Cabinet, but that if he
should he would advise him to make Mr.
Thurman Secretary of State and Mr.. Nc
Donald Attorney General. He also said that
he supposed now the South would be ac-
knowledged as part of the country and be
represented in the cabinet, and that he
would not be surprised if Mr.. Reagan, Of
Texas, would be made Postmaster General,
and Mr.. Barbour or some other prominent
Virginian given another place.
r. D. Becky, we'll known colored man
of Alexandria, and once prominent repub-
licap politician. now messenger in the Cap
itol, says he is the happest colored man 10
the District Of Columbia. because the peo-
pie of the South, with whose interests his
are identified. will now be considered as
the equals of their fellow citizens in the
North, and have their legitimate share Of
influence in the conduct of the Govern
ment.
Ex-senator Davis, of West Virginia, is u
the city to day. He says that COTS cleo.
ton in his State was due to his protective
tariff ideas, and that if Gibson be defeated it
will be because he leans toward free trade.
Congressman Wilson, from the same State,
VINO Is mere TO uag, says Lnat
COTS election is solely due to the use of
money, and that such will be the cause of
Gibson's, if be be defeated, which, however,
he does not believe.
1t is noticeable fact that among the de.
feated democratic candidates for Congress
are those who were the most pronounced |
protectionists, such as Fielder and Terrell |
of New Jersey, Hunt, of Louisiana, and |
Eaton, of Connecticut; while among those
elected save Mr.. Hurd, whose defeat was
purchased, are the most pronounced free
traders, as Mr.. Yaple, of Michigan.
General Butler is in the city to-day, but
up to two o'clock had refused to be inter.
viewed, except to say that he was beginning
to lose faith in republican institutions.
Mr. Mcpherson, secretary of the national re-
publican campaign committee, says the democrats
will have forty five majority in the next House.
1t will hardly be that much.