Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1884-10-11
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. II, 1884.

FROM WASHINGTON.
spec,s Correspondence Of the Alexandra dazette.l
WASHINGTON. D. c., Oct. II, 1884.
As even the Blaineites concede that if
| Ohio shall 90 democratic their Presidential
candidate will stand no chance of election,
and as they are in great doubt about Ohio,
the probable and possible result OF the cleo
ton in that State next Tuesday is of course
the chief topic of conversation here, where
the effects of that result will be felt more d.
rectly than any where else. A great change
has taken place in the prevailing opinion
concerning The Ohio election during the
| last few DAYS, and no one here now denies
| that the republicans who short time ago
| were buoyant with hope, are now depressed
with anxiety if not sunk with dependency,
or that the democrats who have been chirp-
ing low for some time past, are now making
the whole atmosphere resonant with their
full notes of anticipated victory. Ten
thousand republican majority was freely
bet on a week ago, but day it is lmpossl-
bic to get majority of one allowed, and
it is doubtful if even bets can be found.
A commercial Traveller, who arrived here
THIS morning from Ohio, says that two OF
The leadin. repUb leans Of Cleveland, who
we're on the Train with him, said that The
republicans could only save the State iy
miracle.
Mr.. John S. Barbour passed through here
to-day on bis way to Alexandria from New
York, where be has been 10 attend meet.
ing Of lne executive committee OF the ma
liunul denocruiic committee, OF which he Is
u melubrr He says that at headquarters
in New York every body, from the chair.
mau Of the national committee, Mr.. Bar
|, lr,l.c hn,, 4 ha ,l,nn i
not ONLY hopeful but sapguiue of Cleveland's
election, irrespective Of the way Ohio may
90 next Tuesday, aud that while Otio is
not counted on there, no body would be
surprised if it should go democratic, 80 gen.
erai throughout the country seems the pop
ular feeling in favor Of turning the rascals
OUT He SAYS that the dollar fund asked
for by the national committee is so popular
that receipts from it are supplying the COM
mittee with the means for paying all The
legitimate expenses Of the campaign, and
that the committee has no need for money
for any other than legitimate purposes, as
they know that even if so disposed it would he
of no use for them to attempt to compete
with the Blaineites in the purchase Of votes.
He saws that while in New York he had
interviews with several of the leading Irish
Catholics in the country, and that while
they said there was some disatfection among
that class Of democratic voters now, it would
all be gone by election day among such as
had any real regard for their religion or the
land of their nativity Mr.. Barbour says he
had a talk with member Of the committee
who had all interview with Mr.. John Kelly,
in which the latter repeated his statement,
that Tammany Hall would give Cleveland
full, fair and honorable support, and
said that as an honorable man he meant
every word of that statement. The Ger
mans of New York, Mr.. Barbour says are
practically unit for Cleveland, and that
the vote Cleveland will receive from the
business men of that State who have here
tofore voted the republican ticket will sur
prise everybody outside of the State. Mr..
Barbour, himself, seems to be quite sanguine
of democratic success, and this fact is look.
ed upon as the best news Of all, as those &C.
quainted with him know that be forms his
opinions from facts and figures, and not from
hearsay.
Congressman Phil. Thompson is still in
the city, but says there is no news here,
and that he will go to New York next week
to find out what is going on. He is conf
dent that Cleveland will be elected, but is
doubling Thomas so far as Ohio is concern.
ed, from the fact that it is republican
State, and that fit were not, the republic
cans have both the intention and the money
to buy it.
From Tennessee it is learned that old Mr..
Emerson Etherage, conspicuous member
of Congress before the war, bankers after
return to his old life, and is an independent
candidate for Congress in his district against
the regular democratic nominee and that as
that nominee was selected by asimple instead
OF a two-thirds majority, as he should have
been, there is some dissatisfaction, and that |
the old gentleman may be elected. The |
democrats will gain one of the two districts |
in the State now represented by repubii- |
cans
Judging from the demand for documents |
at the rooms of the democratic copgresson-
al campaign committee here the voters are |
crying after a tariff that by lowering the |
price of the necessaries of life will enhance
the price of labor by increasing the pur.
dreds of orders for the revenue tariff
speeches of Messrs. Hurd, Morrison and
Yapel to one for Mr.. Randall's
A gentleman here to day from Richmond
says that Col. A. w. Jones, once one of
Mahone's most devoted followers, is now
open in his denunciations of the late boss
and the gang of whom he is still master;
that he has no hesitation in giving his
friends the particulars of the nefarious bar.
gain made by Malone with the republicans
by which they secured possession of the
Senate, and that he accuses the gang with
whom he was once connected with defraud-
ing him, and says that John Paul, the only
true man among them, made haste to get
life judgeship in order to be rid of them.
The statement first made in this CORE
spondence yesterday that Senator Edmunds
had arrived here for the winter added no
little to the previously existing depression
among the republicans, for though they knew
the Senator was not keen set upon the cleo
ton Of the star reuters and railroad mo-
nopolists' candidate for the Presidency, they
thought as he had said she hoped the grand
Did party would pull through" that he real