Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-01
LETTER FROM LoUDOUN.

Mr.. Clarence Dresser, OF Chicago, has been
with General Logan during his trip through
New York, and has also been thrown into
intimate and close relations with Senator
Miller of New York, aud Collector Robert
son, of the same State, and of course what
he says naturally has the impress of their
thoughts and opinions aud be states his
position as the one occupied by the most
Influential of the republican leaders. He
says that Blaine will carry New Gurk ny
fifty thousand majority, which feat will lie
accomplished by Butler securing one hun
bred thousand voters in the State that
Butler will poll as large a vote in MasSa
| chusets as Cleveland, thereby throwing the
Bay State for Blaine: that protection will
carry New Jersey for the Plumcd Knight,
| and that Connecticut will follow her eX.
ample that the soldiers will carry Illinois
for Logan that the Pacific Slope is solid
and irI efragable for Blaine; that hey admit
large prohibition vote in Iowa, but that
it will wheel into line for the republican
nominees: that there is no talk and no
hope among the knowing ones that West
Virginia will break faith with the democra-
cy; that Virginia is conceded to Cleveland
by large ma ority.
Now for the political tabeaux. Bat, then,
grave alarm exists about Ohio and Indiana
among those best posted and those most IA
miliar with The situation. The prohibition
tickt will poll an immense vote in both the
states last named, and the Republicans con-
slider that the fighting ground is removed
from New York to Ohio. That the Nation
al Republican Committee have decided to
put both Blaine and Logan on the stump in
Ohio in two weeks, to such straits have
they been reduced. That Malone received
no substantial recognition from the Nation
al Committee, and that his disappointment
was visible to Il casual observer. That the
Blaine managers do not approve of Malone
| or like him, and have determined to let
him severely alone. That Blaine will carry
his State by from six to eight thousand ma
iority Thus by one grand sweep Of the i'm.
agination, the managers claim enough to
elect their ticket, but unfortunately for
them they have made fatal admission,
namely, that danger exists in Ohio.
Such an Acknowledgement and the fact
Of Blaine mounting the stump, shows that
the Buck Eye State is on the eve ofone of
her many political surprises, and that the
democratic party will gam by the event no
one doubts.
Mr.. Dresser is an intelligent and respect
able republican and he gives his views in
the most sincere way, and the greater will
be bis surprise in November. TO claim New
York for Blaine by reason of Butler sccnr-
ing one hundred thousand votes is rs alb
surd IA to say that st. John will carry Nir
| ginia, aud further, TO say that Butler will
poll as many votes in Massachusetts as
Cleveland is as ridiculous as to claim Maine
for The democrats, If all the republican
claims are based on the same slender
ground as the foregoing, tho New York
| Hera!Hs statement of two hundred and
| seycnty.seven electoral votes for Cleveland
will not ne out of the way.
The Blaine managers are utterly OPP
posed 10 Malone and his methods and
the recognition he received from the Ma
tional Committee amounts IL Il bow. The
republican party recognize the fact that
the contract that Arthur made with Ma
hcnn has done the republican cause great
harm, and the Blaine people believe
they can win without Malone and hence
the return of the boss with nothing in his
pockets but his hands,
In an interview that Mr.. ID. had with Mr..
Kelly, the boss undertakes to say that at
the meeting to be held early in the coming
mouth the Tammany society will say, by
resolution, that Cleveland and Hendricks
are ths nominees of the democratic party
for President and Vice President but will
20 no further; so that every Tammany
man may take care of himself but that he,
X ely, thinks that the larger part of Tam
many will support Butler. That the action
| contemplated is in order that Tammany
may be inside of l.arty lines, and that the
democratic party of New York will be
bound to recognize them in the future.
A rather amusing inci'icnt occurred on
the train going west yesterday morning.
There was colored preacher on hand who
had some hand bills advertising a Baptist
excursion or something of the kind. When
he arrived at one of the stations, he beck
oned a likely look ing young darkey to him
and presented him with one of his religious
circulars The duSky voter natural.
Thought, when he made the leap from the
| wagon to the ground, that it was campaign
| literature, and when he found his mistake
the sadlest smile broke over his face so sad
that Blaine, of Maine, if he had seen it
would have added Virginia to his list Of GER
| tain states.
Nature smiled and it was Linden, for art
could not add to what is so near perfection.
I STOOD upon the summit of Il noble hill from
whose crown could see many miles and
many wonders
~
form a complete Indian bow, and inmedi-
alely in the rear of this peculiar formation
is the Blue Ridge range that is grand,
glorious and Imposing.
AS the eye swept around it rested on JEFF
ferson in Maryland, Harper's Ferry and
Pete ssille. The scene was magnificent and
enchanting, the country seemed cnvironed
with circle of hills, the luxuria clover
shed it's rich fragrance about and the new
mown hay scattered its perfume on the air;
The ROYAL sunset was melting amid the i'm
pcrial purple of the West clarifying land and
skv alike; the shadows were creeping down
the hill side and the clouds were resting ou
the mountains And the eternal hills that
neither fret in heat nor pine in FROST th"t
welcome alike the sunlight and the shadow,
that shelter the wild rose and the lichen
stood monument of the durability OF time
and the perishing condition Of man.
When one gets accustomed to The noun