Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-09
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON D. c.. Oct 9, 1884.


Especial Correspondence of tho Alexandra sazette
WASHINGTON, d. c., Oct. 9. 1884.
Mr.. Post, secretary of the congressional
democratic campaign committee, mas JUST
returned from q visit to New YORK. DE
saws that the republicans OF that State Will
be surprised at the number OF lndependenG
republican votes Cleveland will get, and
that, too, no matter how Ohio may go. The
people of that state, he says, know Governor
Cleveland, and whether those OF ONO vote
for him or not is matter that Will not efiect
them in tire slightest possible degree: he
saws that at independent republican head
quarters in New York there is already
list of sixty-three thousand men, who have
heretofore voted nothing but The repuoii-
can ticket, who over their own signatures
have expressed the determination OF voting
for Cleveland in November. These are
not men of the George William Curtis
sort. but are those who are known as stall
wart republicans, and who, as they have
no, hing to expect from Blaine, are now
going with the tide that Is to oyerwnelm
him.
The people OF this city are already taxed
heavily to pay the expense OF the courts,
most of which expense Is Incurred by tne
nav any taxes. This tax is likely to be in-
creased greatly by an entirely new sort of
cases to which negroes are the sole parties
these are suits for damages for scandals,
several of which have been instituted re-
Gently, one yesterday. To practical people
this looks a. if civilization had been run in
the ground.
The urgent need of Libby votes in the
Norfolk district has induced Secretary
Chandler to order large Increase in the
lumber OF employees at the Norfolk Navy
Yard. But even this increase and all the
other means, including 1.-THE whole power OF
the administration" which will he thrown
in ia, or OF Mr.. Libby, will not be sufficient
to els ct him, provided Mitchell, his negro
opponent, be not bought OIL.
From Virginia it is learned to-day that
Nal oae. notwithstanding his lack OF money,
has pcrtert al thorough organization OF
his forces, bs which every negro man in
iha. Sale on the 4th proXimo will cast
vot for Blaine. With the solid negro vote,
he hopes by the aid Of such white men as
ne can bay with promises of office, or with
money. should the national committee give
him auy after the Ohio election not to car.
ry that State, but to reduce the democratic
majority OF last year and to save some of
his Congressman.
G.neral Mali que is one of the few men
who still continue to harp upon the long
sine satisfactorily refuted cleveland scau-
DIAL" But if reports from Petersburg be true
the Generals conduct there on Sunday al
ternoon last should make him 'call of his
dogs" lest retaliation in kind overwhelm
him.
Mr.. Rolfe Saunders, who is just here from
New York, says that day or two before
he left there gentleman from New Jersey
called at republican headquarters, and
hearing it claimed there that New York
would 90 for Blaine by large majority,
produced $50 600, which he offered TO bet in
n lump or in any desired sums above $500
either that New York would so for Cleve
laud or that Cleveland would be elected
His offer was not accepted at the time nor
has be Ell since though he named the bank
where the money would be left.
Senators Mcpherson and Sabin are in the
city to day. the former says New Jersey
is safe for the democrats, and that Cieve-
land has the best chance of election. The
Blaine will be elected, is by no means sau-
guine.
The withdra wal of the straightout repub-
lican electoral ticket in Virginia is looked
upon here as substantiaton of Mr.. John
Wise's remark that Virginia republicans
are apostates for the price of their az ostacy,"
rs there is but one man on the ticket they
will now support who ever cast a republican
vote. Mr.. Dezendorf is not a prophet, for
up to this time he has persisted in the asser-
ton that the Malone electoral ticket would
be so altered as to make it perfectly salts.
factory to the straightout element.
Private letters received here to-day from
republicans in New York say that while the
writers are confident about that State they
are by no means sanguine of success in Ohio.
They also say that Malone nor anybody
else in Virginia has as yet gotten any money
from the national republican committee. and
that that committee has put of definite
answers to all appeals for money until the
result of the Ohio election shall be known.
Large numbers of strange negroes in new suits
are in the city TO day. it is currently reported, on
their way to West Virginia and Ohio to vote the
Blaine ticket next Tuesday. They are said to be
in charge of white Blaine strikers in this city,
several of whom acknowledge they are going to
the States named, but say they are going to watch
the democrats who are to carry negro reporters
there-as if anything could induce negro to 60
out of his own State To vote democratic ticket!
Logan's Manners.
CHARLESTON, W. Va, Oct. 9.-On Mon
day evening while the Logan end of the
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