Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-09-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria aahette.I
. ---.-=.&... Il 10 1894

Mr.. }. Is. Butler, ex-appolutlneuC Sieih Va
Tie Treasury, and who received letter oi
regret from Secretary Folger when ne re-
signed that position, has come OUT 1or CieVe'
land. He bases his action upon Mr.. Bialne's
letter to safe-burglar Harrington advising
him to work against Folger when candl-
date for Governor of New York, and says
that he does not see how any man VINO De-
louged to what were called the stalWares
can do otherwise than ne has done.
CONGRESSMAN Stevens, of New York,
member of the national democratic commit
tee. was among the visitors at democratic
headquarters 10 day. He says he has just
been all through the western part OF his
State, and that the feeling there ls enureiy
favorable to Cleveland who, he thinks, WILL
carry the State by large majority.
A letter received here this morning from
Mr.. Hurd's district in Ohio says that gen
tl.man will be elected by larger majority
than ever before, aud that though few
men democrats only in name will vote
AGAINST him on account of his revenue tarlh
id.ss, that loss will be more than compen-
stated BY tue support he will receive
from men who have heretofore voted the
republican ticket, but who agree with him
on the tariff question.
Congressman Mcmillan, from Tennessee,
is here o.day. He says that political things
are all one way in his State, and that 80 far
"a he can learn it is the same case in all the
other Southern States.
A letter re .eved here to-day from Don
Piatt. of Ohio, says that democratic pros
meets are favorable in his State, and that
while Ohio heretofore has always been re-
puhlican in Presidential elections, he sees
such evidences of change in all sections OF
the Stat. that he can't help thinking it will
90 democratic at the coming election.
The persis II demands of 1.-THE Indianap
oils Sentinel upon Mr.. Blaine to disprove
the charges it has preferred against him In
the Blaine scandal case, or to withdraw the
suit he has entered against it, at once; in
other words TO bring the trial TO issue be-
fore the election so that the people may
know who is right before they cast their
ballots. are said here to be doing Mr.. Blaine
no little damage oil through the West, and
to induce the belief there that Dir. Blaine is
now realizing the sensation of poker
PLAYER who bet heavily on worthless hand
and was called.
Mr.. +. H. Fowler, Of Owen county, Ind,
the democratic candidate for the State
Senate in that district in a letter to friend
here, SAYS I'VE are going TO clean them out
this time. Every Thing looks well in H.
daua.'
MIR. Harvey, ex-Minister to Portugal, and
editor of the late Patriot, of this city, and
private secretary OF Mr.. David Davis, dur
ing the latters presidency of the Senate,
saws that Cleveland will be elected by the
largest majority ever given President, and
not only tAat, out that the Senate will be
democratic by from three to six majority,
and the House by ma GRITTY as large as is
desirable. He claims the States of New
York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Michigan, Kansas, Colorado aud
Nevada, and says the democrats have ex-
celleut chauc.s in Ohio and Illinois. He
saws that in the South there will gain OF
Eight democratic congressman.
The Treasury department has already
prepared and published republican cam
paiyu document intended 10 deceive unso-
phi5licatcd people into the silly belief that
the Government has only lost five thousand
dollars during the Arthur administration.
The Interior department Is now preparing
similar document charging MIR. Hendricks
with crookedness when he was at the head
of lbe land bureau in that department
The preparation of such documents de-
manls the work OF many OF the clerks EN-
pioyed in the departments, aud yet when
private citizen goes there for information
valuable to himself he is informed that the
clerks have no time to spare for any such
purpose.
The chairman Of the democratic county
committees of Preston county, West Virginia,
in letter to the democratic congressional
campaign committee, received this morning,
says" The democrats Of this section of W est
Virginia are wide awake aud will poll every
vote on the 14ih of October for our gallant
candidate for Governor. There are large
number Of Irish along this part Of the Balti-
more aud Ohio Railroad, but l have not seen
or heard Of ona who will vote for Know
Nothing Blaine"
Passed Grand Commander Cole aud Dep
uty Graud Commander Reed, of Virginia,
are here to day 10 assist the DeMolay en-
campmeul, OF this city, in receiving the
Chasseur Commandery, of Philadelphia. a
mounted colnnandery Of Knights Templars,
who will parade here this afternoon.
A Sporting mau from New York, here to-
day, saws the betting on the election in that
city is 81 900 to $3.50 on Cleveland.
The sessions of the international prime
lonatic room Of the Department of State.
arrangements are now III pEOSleSS loi JUG
meetings, which will open on October lst.
Mr.. John N. Gregory, of the civil service
Commission, has written letter, in which
he says that the women stand better exam.
nations than the men, aud that if they
don't get their share of the appointments it
Is tho fault Of the departments and not of
the commission. He says that under the
old system one member of Congress had
fnrtv ,ypnnn apnointed tn office from his
district. He also says that under the old
system "nomens Establishments were not
poweriess as means of winning places"
Ex-Governor Kemper, of Virginia, passed
through here last night on his way to Baltimore.
He says that while there is no hurrah in his State
the voters will all turn out in November, and that
the only uncertainty about the election there is
that respecting the size of the democratic ma.
jority.
DISSATISFACTION WITH THE RESULTS or
RECENT EXAMINATIONS OF CADETs.-The
most bitter complaints have been made of the
recen. physical examinations ofaDplicants for