Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-24
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. "a. 1884.

WASHINGTON. D. g., Oct. "a. 1884.
Mr.. John c. New, one of the managers o.
the republican machine in Indiana, has is
sued circular letter to the clerks in the
Government departments here, In which
be tells them that if Cleveland be elected
all of them will lose their places aud il
Blaine be they will meet the same fate ii
they don't pay their political assessments
Sir Brown, secretary of the republican COM
mittee Of Ohio, has sent postal cards to all
the Government employees from Ohio ask
ing them for contribution of $40 head in
order 10 pay 81 900, the remainder of the
debt contracted by that committee
in the late State campaign. He is so im-
Fortunate ia his appeals for money with
which to pay this debt, which it appears he
is in part responsible for, that he says the
committee would prefer the amount they
ask for to the presence Of the contributors at
the poiis OH the 4tn proxiino. The national
republican committee did not entrust the
disbursement Of their money in Ohio at the
late election to the committee Of that State,
but allowed Commissioner Dudley to place
it where it would do the most good. Both
the circulars and the postal cards referred
to, though denounced by those to whom
they are addressed, will probably meet with
the desired favorable response, for the
Government employees know that their
names are listed and that their replies to
such missives are preserved for future
reference. Take it altogeter the lot of a
Government clerk is by no means happy
one, at least during election times.
Private letters from Ohio, received here
to-day, say that the democratic organiza-
ton in that State will be more efficient at
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there, and that arrangements have been
any attempt that may be made by the Blaine
ties to repeat their bulldozing and frauds OF
the 18th instant
General Eppa Hunton, who has just re-
turned from New York, where he had an
interview with the members of the national
democratic committee, says that everybody
he saw there is confident not only that New
York will go democratic. but that Cleve-
land will be elected.
Messrs. H. D. Cooke & Co. have to-day
made an assignment to Horace F. Cum.
mings, of the Washington law firm of Cum
mings & Baker. Mr.. Cooke says this action
is taken in order to protect the interests of
all concerned until the firm can arrange for
resumption or payment. Mr.. Cook, indi-
vidually, and for the same purpose, has
made an assignment of all his effects to Mr..
w. A. Gordon.
The republican managers are in doubt
about the plan of the remaining part of the
democratic campaign, and are consequently
puzzled about the course they should take.
If the democrats intend making New York
the scene of their supreme effort the repuo-
licans will abandon that State altogether
and apply their methods to Indiana, New
Jersey and Connecticut, but should the
democrats make an effort In Indiana, the
republicans will strive for New York. Tt is
their uncertainty about this that bothers
the republicans, and they are resorting to
every conceivable means to remove it, so
that they can know where their money can
be placed to do the most good.
The Post of this city saws Mr.. Barbour
was introduced at the democratic barbecue
at Carlin's Springs yesterday by Mr. Ed.
Burke. This is incorrect. Mr.. Burke is
republican, and spoke at the republican