Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-08-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special Correspondence OF the Alexandria dazette.


tsncc,l CORRESPONDENCE ca OF tho Alexandria Gazettel
WASHINGTON, D. e., August II, 1854.
Mrs Belya Lockwood, the female lawyer
and tricyclist of this city, has been inter-
viewed upon the subject of the coming
presidential election. She pronounces her
self rs unuualiliedIy. in favor of st. John,
and homes that every temperance man IN
the country will vote for him, not that she
has any hope Of electing him this time, but
IN order to make evident the strength OF
,ha temperance sentiment, SO that in 1883
Inc prohibition candidate may enter the
field with IL strong probability of success.
All the Presidential candidates now have
supporters among the prominent woman
rights women except Butler, who has been
more favorable to them than either OF the
others. Probably il is because he Is called
lhe widow that he has no friends among
Them. 1t is noticed, too, that the younger
and comelier OF them are for Cleveland.
Judge Clampitt, of Illinois. is here on his
way to democratic headquarters i'll New
York. He saws that there is n democratic
GROUND swell in all the West and North
west, that thousands of people who have
never voted any other than democratic
ticket will vote for Cleveland next Novcm-
her: that the farmers of all that region have
determined to submit no longer TO tarlfl
that oppresses them for the benefit of few
monopoiizng manufacturers that not only
the Germans, but everybody else who IS
opposed to laws prescribing what Il man
shall and shall not drink, arc marching in
the democratic ranks and that any demo-
cratic detection that may exist in the East,
the extent Of which he has come on 10 see
about himself will he more than offset by
the immense gains that have been made in
the West. He says that Wisconsin is sure
for Cleveland, and that the odds are in ia
vor of his CARRYING Iowa, Illinois and Ohio.
Mr.. John Amber Smith, a son.in-laW OF
ex Senator Lewis, of Virginia, when asked
this morning about the condition of repub-
lican affairs in Virginia, replied that while
Malone appeared 10 be anxious that the
public should know that he and Cameron
are in accord, he, Smith, failed to observe
any indication that Cameron had any such
anxiety. When asked if any negotiations
were in progress for the settlement oil the
differences between the straIghtouts ana
Mahoncites, he responded in the negative,
and said Malone would not entertain any
propositions to that effect, and that II Blaine
should be elected the blame OF Virginia
going against him, as she was bound to do
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be laid upon the right shoulders.
1t was stated in this correspondence some
time ago that person who went TO see
General Butler on private business was an
mntentional and unwilling listener to
conversation between one of Blaine's agents
and the murderer of poor Munford, that he
had to make his proximity apparent and
that when roughly addressed by Butler for
being where he was, he replied more rough
" and to the effect that he was there by
Buffers own appointment. 1t now turns
out that what the person alluded to said he
heard was correct, and that the agent re-
ferred to did make Butler large promises If
he would come out as Presidential candi-
date. AS Butler had been previously de-
ceived by Blaine, it is now supposed that
he got cash i'm hand or good collateral Sc
curity, before he did what Blaine's agent
wanted him to do.
There is some talk about removing the
headquarters of the democratic Congress
sional committee, now in this city, to New
York, where the national democratic COM
mittee have their headquarters, and OF
concentrating the action of the two
committees. To do this would avoid mis-
takes and save money that could be
put where it would do more good.
Some complaint is already made of the delay
in getting out the campaign book, and in
furnishing other matter to the speakers,
and documents to the voters. In some
States, tits said, North Carolina for instance,
the campaign will be half over before, not
only the voters, but the speakers, have cor
rect understanding of what the Muligan
letters really were. 1t is understood here
that the Catholic H'orld, which has come
out for Blaine, is being sent by the republi.
cans to every Catholic in the country, and
the question is asked why the democratic
committee don't do the same with the ADLER
and more influential Catholic papers that
support Cleveland.
says the newspaper that started the Cleve-
land scandal was not democratic paper and
that the republicans have bought half mil
lion copies of it. He also says the paper is
of no standing whatever, and that though
its editor announced he was ready to
exhibit the evidence upon which he based
his scandelous charges, when requested to
show it by a committee of the citizens of
that town, he declined to do SO.
William Simpson, postofice inspector,
telegraphed from Bamberg, S. c., to-day
that the postoflice at that place was open
and that he would report the cause of the
trouble in that place by mail. The post
master at Bamberg, T. G. Robinson, tele.
graphed yesterday that his life had been
threatened and that he had closed the of.
fee.
1t is stated at the Navy Department to-day that
the sensational story about the cruelty and can
nibalism practiced by the survivors of the Greedy
ex petition is not credited there and that there is
nothing in any of the records of tho expedition
which have reached that department that gives