Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-07-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the ALEXANDRA Gazette
w su1nrGraN u u IIll.r 90 1904

WASHINGTON, D. o., July 90, 1884
It is rumored here that the spirit of indie
pendence manifested by Mr.. w. E. Sims 10
supporting Blaine at Chicago in opposition
to the wishes Of Gen. Malone who had
pledged President Arthur the solid vote of
the State, like that of General Longstreet,
ished by his removal from the insignificant
office which was given him iu the document
room of the Senate The General permits
ence among those who train with him. He
is the autocrat of his party, and will brook
no disobedience to his commands.
Mr.. Hill, member of the House from the
Defiance district of Ohio, arrived here to-
day from Stanton, Virginia, where there
was democratic ratification meeting yes
terday which was addressed by himself
Mr.. J. R. Tucker aud others. Mr. Hill SAYS
the white people of the Valley are imbrued
with their old time democratic enthusiasm,
and will give their old time majority next
November. He says the meeting yester-
day was an immense one and was eminenlIy
satisfactory.
At democratic headquarters to day letters
were received from Indiana and PennSyI-
vania stating that democratic clubs were
being organized in all parts of those States
many of them composed entirely of Irish
men, and that the democrats there are in
better spirits, and have more real cause TO
be, than in any previous campaign since the
war. They say that if there be any delec
ton among the democratic Catholics and
Irishmen in the country it has not reached
those States, where all are democrats who
| were democrats before, and where those who
are democrats will be joined by more
The report in some of the newspapers to
the effect that the doorkeepers at the NJ.
tional democratic convention had not been
paid, arose from the fact that some of the
men who acted as doorkeepers volunteered
to act in that capacity without pay. An
those who were promised pay have rectiv
| ed their money.
Gentlemen here to day from New York
say there is no doubt that rammany Hall
will ratify the nomination Of Gov. Cleve-
land, and that John Kelly will vote for him.
| 1t is understood from the first Virginia
Congressional district that General Beale is
Judge Garrison's most formidable opponent
for the democratic nomination in that dis
trict.
1t is understood that General Malone,
now that another election is approaching,
is again pursuing his old plan Of attempting
to catch democratic votes in his State by
either giving or promising to give federal
offices there to democrats. but that, as has
always heretofore been the result, though
he seem to be utterly aware oft, for every
vote he thus gains, he loses three or four. 1t
is said that his efforts in this direction are
now chiefly apparent in the southwest por-
ton of the State.
Last Saturday night large number of
federal office holders left here in the Nor
folk boat to spend Sunday at Ocean Beach,
and be back here on Monday morning. On
their return from the beach TO Norfolk TO
take the boat Sunday evening they were de-
layed so long by an obstruction of the track
caused by the deraiIment of another train
that they did not reach Norfolk until after
the boat left, and consequently had to stay
there until the next evening, and SO did not
reach here until this morning. The tele
graph companies did good business yester
. day in conveying the excuses of the excur-
sonlsts for their absence from their posts
The call for special session of the Vr-
ginia Legislature, issued by Gov. Cameron
will, it is said here, on the authority
of people from that State, not on
ly increase the democratic majority
there but widen the breach between Cover, -,
Cameron and General Boss Nobody, hc-s.ver
supposes for al instant that the Gov .r,or wjI
ever be democrat again ''