Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-27
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandris Gazette
WASHINGTON d c. Oct u 1874

WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. g. 1884.
Intelligence here to-day from Ohio is to
the effect that neither party is very demon
strative now, having pretty we'll exhausted
themselves in the late State campaign, but
that both are exerting themselves to the ut
most in still hunts. As the average ma
iority of all the candidates on the republi-
can ticket lately elected there was nine
hundred, as the democrats being forewarned
by the experience Of the late election are
forearmed for the next one, and as both
parties are now much nearer an equality as
regards the sinews of war than fhey were
previous to the late conflict there, many of
the best posted men in that State believe
that if there be any difference in the chances
it is in favor of the democrats. That the
republicans are scared about the Slate is
made apparent by their frant appeals of
their managers in that State for money.
Work at the rooms of both the campaign
committees here is entirely suspended, and
the few persons at them spend their time in
reading newspapers and figuring about the
probable result of the election. At the
democratic rooms, as previously stated in
this correspondence, democratic majority
in the next U. S. House of Representatives
as large as is in the present one is claimed
and to-day at the republican rooms it is
conceded that the democrats will nave q
majority in the next House, but, of course,
not as large a. the democrats claim.
But little has been heard during the
present campaign of the probable result of
the election in the Pacific States. Letters
from well-informed politicians in those
States received here to day, say that Cali
fornia and Nevada will surely go for Cleve-
land, and that it will be nip and tuck in
Oregon, with the probabilities in favor of
the former.
From Indiana to. day the election news is
of the most favorable character for the
democrats What was until recently lack
ing in the democratic organization there
has been supplied, and due precautions
taken to prevent the use Of Ohio methods
there or to resist them to the last extremity.
Letters here from Senator Voorhees,, one of
the democratic managers there. say the
democrats have fair majority there and
have the manhood requisite to have that
majority recorded tomorrow week.
A member of the Virginia Legislature
here to-day says that before that body ad.
journed last Friday he made it his business
to inquire from the democratic meHabersfrom
all the Congressional districts in the State
the exact political condition OF their respec-
tive districts, and that from what they told
him he is convinced that the democratic
majority in the State will be nesrer thirty
than ten thousand. He also saysthat there
is no doubt about any of the Congressional
districts except the ID and 4th, the Norfolk
and Petersburg districts, and that in them
it is by no means improbable that Marshall,
democrat, will be elected in the former, and
that Evans, the colored anti Malone repub.
lcan candidate, and consequently more OBJ
jectionable to Malone than Rives, the dem
ocratic candidate, will defeat Brady, Ma
homes man. Trigg's majority in the 9th
district, he says, will be about two thousand
Well informed politicians from New York
here to-day say Cleveland will carry that
State by an immense majority, aud that as
the political feeling that prevails there also
prevails in New Jersey and Connecticut,
both those States will probably go the same
way.
The best evidence of Observation-Disclosures
feelings toward civil service reform is the
fact that to day aud for week or more past
business in all the departments except the
pension bureau, in which increased work
has been and is being done, but by tempo
rary female clerks, has been practically
suspended, on account of the absence of the
employees, from heads Of departments down
to the lowest salaried clerks who are away
electioneering for Blaine in the various
modes prescribed for them.
The prevailing opinion in this city to day
about the election is that the chances are in
favor Of the democrats. An old newspaper
man, a wing politician before the war, says
he is induced to think Cleveland will be
elected from the fact that while the October
elections in the democratic States showed
large democratic gains, the elections in the
republican States of Maine and Ohio show
large republican losses, the majority In
Maine being only twelve thousand, and
In Ohio the head of the ticket lacking 2,1CO |
votes of "a majority. The cause of such re-
cults, he says, will be operative in all the
States in November. y