Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
ispecial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gaz

sneakers at the democratic meeting to be
held at Fairfax Court House next Monday.
The Col. SAYS the reason the democrats did
not carry Ohio last Tuesday was the want
of nerve on the part of Gov. Hoadly, who
as soon as be was Informed that the o. S.
Marshal was appointing deputy marshals ny
the hundred and selecting them from the
wors, class of republicans should have If
sued an order to the miltia to turn out on
election day and arrest and imprison the
first aud every one Of them believed to he in
tarferriur. Mir. Nevens, ofthe clerk s office OF
the House, who has just returned from Gin.
cinnuti. SAWS the behaviour of the U. ). de
untv marshu:s there Oh election day fully
.oualed any thing ever done before by such
cheers in the South A well known new
paper correspondent of this city, who was
also in Cincinnati on the day of election says
The Blaineites succeeded in that city by
meaus of the fifteen hupdred imported ne
yroes and roughs who were appointed U. ).
deputy marshals and who voted as often as
was deemed necessary.
Ass,ated in TINS correspondence OF yes
terday the President and the leading re
publicaus then in the city. had conference
TO see what could he done to save the Blaine
cause, now rapidly sinking: Among those
present were Mr.. Morton, U. ). Minister to
France, snd Commissioners Dudley. 1t was
iecided tina. The latter, after going to New
York to arranea about the soap" should
rroceed at orcc to Indiana, take charge OF
the Blaine. campaign there, and resort to
,be same means aud methods by which
he secured a Pyrrhic victory In Ohio
last Tuesday. it was also determined that
Mr. atcr;ou, who was largely Instrumental
ia devising the mode by which the soap"
WAS raised on the security of the q. 5.
Treasury for carrying Ohio, should 20 to
New York, do what he could to prevent
impending defeat there, and address the
uevting of the so called republican business
men Of that city from the steps of the Snb
Treasury next Monday. 1t is understood
that the whole resources of the Govern
ment in men, Offices, promises and money
have been placed at the disposal OF the
Blaineiles BY President Arthur to carry
Ono, Indiana and New York in Novem-
Der, and that so reckless have the "plumed
Knight" aud his managers become by the
defeat now staring them in the face, that
they will hesitate at nothing to avert their
doom. In view of this it would be well for
the dsmoeEs!s IL b. pRs hRrc assA Of their
failure to carry Ohio last Tuesday.
Mr.. S!aIey. Of the Louisville Courier
Journal, who has the faculty of preventing
his hope from influencing his judgment, has
Just returned from New York, and says that
no matter what the Blaineites may do there,
the popular feeling in favor of Cleveland Is
TOO great 10 be overcome.
The Blaineites here are inspired with so
little hope by the esult of the Ohio cleo
ton that the depal tnental clerks who made
fh1ir apfo
der the impression that great victory had
been obtained now regret their previous
ness, and wish they had their money back
in their pockets.
Mr.. Barbour was at democratic head.
quarters here to day. He looks upon the
result of the recent election in Ohio as
practical victory for the democrats. Mr..
Barbour, as previously stated in this cor
respondeuce, never placed much reliance
upon the democratic reports from Ohio be-
fore the election there, but the result of last
Tuesdays election induces him to think
that State will 60 for Cleveland next No
vember. Mr.. Barbour will leave for New
York onight to confer with the executive
committee Of the national democratic COM
mittee, Of which he is member.
Col. A.W. Jones, Mahone's old friend but
now, like most Of his other old friends, his
enemy, is in New York. The Colonel is
now out OF politics, but hopes that Brady,
whom, after Malone, he thinks the worst
of his gang, may be defeated The Colonel
tells tale of the doings Of Malone and his
jnckmen that would startle even those who
suppose themselves acquainted with the
CHA. acter of that gang.
w. B. Mathews, of Caroline county, Va,
one of Mahone's Apprentices, has heen pro-
noted to an eightee hundred dollar clerk
ship here
MIR. Cash Thomas, formerly of Fairfax
county, Va, but more recently Of Newport
News, became disguised with both republi-
canism and Mahoneisn and went to Florida
an altered man and democrat. The sup
posed uncertainty of the political complex
Ion of that State, however, reconverted him
to his first faith, and he is now pursuing
the same course that he followed IN Virgin
ia The Floridians have sent him here and
hunted up his record, and have found that
he resigned q position as the purchaser of
incidentals for the Interior Department in
order to escape removal for standing 10"
with the sellers. Thomas is what is called
a Southern republican, though he came
FROM the North. Unfortunately for South.
ern republicans, the acts Of the more promi-
lent men among them tend 10 confirm the
opinion OF them beld by Mr.. John Wise
and General Malone, which is that they
are "apostates for the price of their apos-
tacy."
Col. Mayo, the answer to whose appeal
10 the national republican committee fpr
money for his campaign in the first district
OF Virginia was postponed until after the
Ohio election has started to New York:to
receive Tat answer. 1t is stated here tIat
Eikins promised Malone to help all his c.n
gressiona candidates should Ohio 60 all right,
but as Ohio did not go all right by lDg
shot, the impression here is that the pa
tional republican committee will not fsol
away any money in the vain attempt2s.to
break the solid South, but will keep all tsey
have for use in what they hope to maEs
solid North.
In the Restricting of Ohio under the new Sap
portonmeAt OF repI eseptation, Mr.. Hurd's ais
trict was not changed, a-d had democratic sha
jority of eleven hundred. This was overosme
last Tuesday by the most bare faced purcbasS Of
votes and by the opposition of the protectioSsts