Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-14
FROM WASHINGTON.

JNO. 5. BARBOUR, Chairman.
w. W. SCOTT, Secretary.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WARRINGTON. d. c., Oct. Il, 1885.
Fred. Douglass, the colored republica
politician and recorder of deeds Of this city
happening to be met by the collecting com
mittee of the Virginia democratic assoca
ton Of this city, this morning, was aske
for a contribution to General Lees cam
paign fund. He replied that he did no
know exactly what to do in the premises a
ne Was between wind and water, as it were
sympatbizer with the LII. Seppendent colore
men of Virginia, who had declared fo
peace, good government and politlcui iuu,
pendence. TO this he replied that he was
a member of both races, and was kin to the
Governor of Maryland. The committee,
not having time to talk any longer, and be-
lieviug that Fred would not have been so
undecided if the result of the election in
Ohio had been different, went on, and Fred
did not subscribe.
State Senator Meredith, of the Alexan-
dria district in Virginia, who is here to day,
saws the democratic majority in his county,
Prince William, will be larger than it was
last year, and that from all he can learn the
democratic prospects in his State are as ia
vorable as the most pronounced democrat
could reasonably desire.
Under the new rules of the Senate the
committee on rules Of that body, and not
the Vice President, has the appointment of
the Senate restaurant keeper. Mr.. Frye Of
Maine, the republican chairman of the COM
mittee referred to, has removed Dick, the
we'll and favorably known colored man for
80 many years at Hancock's restaurant, who
has held the place for several years, and ap.
pointed in his place white man named Il.
l.. Page, from Maine.
The Columbia democratic club Of this city
had parlor in the Metropolitan Hotel here
last night into which telegraph wire had
been run, and where the news from the
Ohio election was received and announced.
Large numbers of the city democrats visited
the room during the evening and heard the
news with great interest, but apparently
without regret. The regular headquarters
of the Virginia democratic association Of
this city are in another part of the hotel. A
few Virginians were there, but they had no
wire and did not seem as if they knew an
important election had been held. Many of
the Columbians drifted over to the Virgin
ians room at different times during the
evening, and before the news had assumed
decisive aspect few Of them contributed
to the Virginia campaign fund.
Congressman Barbour is in the city to.
day, but will leave this afternoon for Rich.
mond to attend meeting of the State dem
ocratic committee of Virginia which meets
there to morrow. Mr. Barbour says one of
the effects of the republican victory in Ohio
will be to transfer oil of Senator Sherman's
influence in his own State to Virginia; that
all the money at his disposal and such speak
ers as he can induce to 60 to Virginia, and
all the other means by which he can make
votes in Virginia that will sustain the bloody
shirt course he has taken, he will exert his
utmost efforts to make effective in Virginia.
For this reason, Mr. Barbor says, and for
the additional one that should Malone have
a majority of one in the Legislature he will
not only turn out enough democratic men,
bers to give him a working majority, but
probably count out General Lee, as the
Legislature is now the returning board, not
only every Virginia democrat, but every
Virginian opposed to Mahoneism, no matter
what his politics or his color, should deter.
mine at once to do all in his power to pre-
serve the State from the recurrence of that
blight
Mr.. Camp, the Philadelphia stone con-
tractor, who was talking some time ago
about engaging in extensive operations at
the Loudoun granite quarry, says that as
the expected demand, both in New York
and Cincinnati, has not come, and as there
is no demand for granite any where in tho
country now, his plans have all been dis.
arranged, but that capitalist from the
North will buy and work the quarry re.
ferred to before long.
Letters were received by. the Virginia
democratic association of this city to-day
from Wythe. Giles, Pulaski and Roanoke
counties, in Virginia, all of which represent
the condition of political affairs in those
counties as more than favorable to the dem.
ocrats, and say that the democratic ma
jorities in all that section of country will be
larger than they were last year.
The Ohio election is the only topic ofcon.
versatlon here to-day, and strange but true,
democrats as we'll as republicans seem
pleased with the result There are several
democratic Senators and Representatives in
the city, the most of whom, as we'll as many
of the District democrats, say the result is
an emphatic rebuke of the Presidents policy,
though they positively prohibit their names
from being used. They also say they will
bet dollars to apples that New York will 90
the same way, and that with any other man
but Malone at the head of the republican
party in Virginia it would be the same way
there. Why they should talk this way,