Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-18
FROM WASHINGTON.


Especial Corre.poudance OF the Alexandria Gazeo.l
WASHINGTON, D. O., Sept. IS, 1884.
1t has Just been discovered here that
plan has been arranged by which negro re-
peaters from Alexandria, this city and Phil
,delphia are 10 be carried into West Vir-
ginia and Oaio to vote there at the election
to be held on tine l4th proximo. The par
Ties selected az the instruments by which
The arrangement is to be carried out are
said to be an ex.deteclive of this city, man
who once lived in Alexandria, and Phil
adelphia striker. The men and the money
requisite are provided, and the plan is for
adding considerable number of fraudulent
votes TO the legal voles of the States named.
But the democrats of those States have
been made aware of the particulars of the
scheme, so that if any negro from Ale1an-
dria may be foolish enough to take the trip,
he may rest assured that tue peuitentiary
awaits h;m at his journeys end.
Mr.. LIBBY. the Iahoneite candidate for
Congress in the lst Virginia district, is in
the city to day. He does not seem to be at
all hilarious at his prospects of success. Mr..
DrzaDdorf when asked If the negro straight
out republican who has been nominated by
his race in Lbby's district would receive
any considerable vote, said he did not know
but that he thought him reliable man and
one who could not be bought of.
A member of the Virginia Legislature,
who arrived here last night, says he came
up on the train with al intelligent and re-
spectacle looking negro, who told him that
he aud Evans, the negro candidate for
Congress against Mahones man Brady in
the Petersburg district, had called upon
Governor Cameron yesterday, and that the
4. -,r,,,,.-..l har RI .ttr hot die
trict for Evans, and to enter ut once upon
the campaign.
Postmaster Dalton Of the House has re-
ceivei ii letter from indianapolis stating that
AMONG the vice presidents at the large in
dependent meeting addressed by Carl Schurz
in that city the other night were forty pro.
mnent Germans who had never voted any
other taan rcpubica ticket in all their
lives, but who will vote for Cleveland in
November.
Amoug the strangers who called at dem.
ocratic headquarters here to day was Mr..
Lawrence III. EInis, a we'll known lawyer
of Chicago whn,e law partner is the demo-
cratic candidate for Attorney for Cook
county, the county which contains Chicago.
He says that Fiuerty, the Irish American
| who is running for Congress on the anti.
Cleveland ticket in that city, will be defeat
ed badly, as all the Irish Americans there
except hos, in the deal, are going to vote
! the democratic ticket as they have always
ne her. to ere; tina; Carter Harrison will be
| elected uovtrnor, aud that should West
Virginia and Ohiu show up favorably Cleve-
| iani will also carry the State, and that, too,
| by Il good majority.
Late Intelligence here il to the effect that
large numbers of The Irish National Lengue
| in Ill the cities Of the country are withdraw
| ing from that organization and will stay out
of it rs long Us Patrick Egan continues at
its head in America, because of his attempt
to connect it with American politics.
From New York it is learned that the
members pfthe Produce Exchange there have
formed 4 Cleveland club. composed of some
of the most prominent merchants of that
city, of which the president and nearly all
the other officers are republicans, and that
they will raise money and work for Cleve-
lands election. Mr.. Daniel Manning, who
managed Governor Cleveland's affairs at
Chicago, said to an interviewer yesterday:
''This is the first time have spoken with
regard TO the campaign. People may say
what they please, but Grover Cleveland is
going to be our next President. Perhaps I
ought not to say so much. but I have the
most reliable information from all over the
country, which assures me of what I say.
You ask me how it is that things are going
on so quietly? The fact is we are doing
more silent work in this campaign than in
any other that I can remember. We are
going to win"
Letters received here from the Hooking
Valley region, where the strike is in progress,
say that the strikers have discovered that
Mr. Blaine is one of the chief owners of the
mines al which the wages have been re.
duced to starvation rates.
Capt. William Geary, of Alexandria CO.,
says the democrats of Fairfax county and
those of his own are making arrangements
for having regular old-time Virginia bar
becue at Carin's Springs some time next
month, at which whole oxen, sheep and
pigs will be roasted, and where all who at
tend can have their heads filled with sound
filled with sound democratic food.
Among the letters received at headquarters is
one from Congressman Eldridge, of Michigan. He
says that democratic prospects in his State are bet
ter than the most sanguine democrat there could
haze contemplated six months ago; that the re-
publicans are fully aware of the detection in their
ranks, and that though Cleveland never expected
such thing he will get the larger share of the
electoral vote Of that State. Ano Their letter re-
ceived there is from Estelville, Craig county, Vir
ginia. 1t says that the Mahoneites are harangu-
ing the voters there on the tariff question, and
telling them the furnaces will all be closed if
Cleveland be ected.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch writing from Williamsburg saws that
The heavy losses of the CoIleua of Willie m