Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-10

WASHINGTON. d. c.. Sept. 10, 1885.
A gentleman, of this city, who paid q
visit to the Luray Cave in Page county,
Virginia, yesterday, as escort to some friends,
says that having been there before, he spent
the most of his time in inquiries about the
local political feeling than in looking at the
curiosties with which he was already famil-
lar, He says that in order to get at the
true condition Of that feeling he represented
himself as being in sympathy with Mr..
Wise, but that of all the people he talked
with every one was for Lee, and that some
of them told him they knew negroes who
| were going to vote the same way, as they
could do so now without the fear of being
made "hot" therefor by their own race.
1t is reported here to-day that in case Mr..
| which. however, there is much doubt, his
successor will probably be Mr.. Heating, ed
tor and proprietor of the Memphis Appeal,
| democratic newspaper having much in
| fuence in the States of Tennessee, Arkan.
sas Mississippi and Alabama, and who is a
gentleman we'll qualified to discharge the dU-
ties of the office. 1t is said that the Senators
from the States mentioned and Secretary
Lamar are all for him.
The Virginia Association Of this city will
meet at an early day to reorganize and
make arrangements for rendering effective
| assistance to their party in Virginia in the
| campaign now in progress there. Among
| those spoken of among the members for
president of the association are Col. l.. O.
Washington, who now holds the position,
and Mr. Frank Hume, of Alexandria county.
State Senator Heaton, of Loudoun coun.
| ty, Virginia, is in the city to-day. He says
his county usually gives larger democratic
maiorities at State than ut national elec-
tions, because of the many reputable repub-
licans there who desire good local govern
ment, and that as Mr.. Wise wants to have
another war, and as the class of voters
referred to are opposed to war, he supposes
the majority this year will be larger
than usual. He says there is nothing in
the report about an intention on the
part of some of the Fauquier delegates to
the district Senatorial convention to bolt if
the nominee be not taken from their county,
aud that such report is derogatory of the
delegates referred to, all of whom he knows
to be good and true democrats who will
abide the action of the convention. The
Senator has no doubt that he will be nomi
mated, nor, for that matter, has any body
else. Major Heaton also says that, unlike
all other war rumors, that concerning Mr..
Wise's proposed war has had bullish effect
upon stocks, the three per cent. State bonds
having advanced several points
There is rumor among newspaper men
here to-day, said to have originated with
Congressman Hewitt, of New York, to the
Ohio, told Mr.. Cleveland that Mr.. Thur
man tipped his glass too often, and that that
was the reason why the old gentleman was
NOT offered n seat in the Cabinet
Congressman Wilson, of West Virginia,
is among the few members Of the House,
now in the city. He says most all the fed
eral Offices in his State have been changed,
except tho Presidential postmasters, and
that as their terms will soon expire by limi-
tation they also will soon "go" He says
there was little dissatisfaction among the
democracy there, caused by. the distribu
ton Of the federal patronage, but that it is
dying out as the people believe the PIesi-
dent is trying to do what is best.
Ex-senator Johnson, of Virginia, is here
on visit to attend to some private bust
ness. He says there is no uncertainty
about the way Virginia will go at the next
election, and that not only will General Lee
be elected by large majority, but that a
democratic majority in the Legislature is
assured. His own section of the State, the
Southwest, or 9th Congressional district, in
which large number of the democrats
went off on the debt question, is now,
he says, all right, as most of those
who left the democratic party on that ques-
ton have returned to it, not being willing
to give their approval to the abuse and viii
6cation Mr.. Wise is pouring out upon the
white people of their own State.
Congressman Croxton, of Virginia, is in
the city to. day. He has lately been on the
stump in his district, and says the democrat
c prospects there have rarely been more
favorable at a similar period off campaign.
A democratic politician from the West
here today says that one Of the chief rea-
son that induced the people of the country
to put the democrats in control of the Gov
eminent was that the favortism and nepot-
ism that characterized republican rule
might be done away with, but that notwith-
standing that fact all the favorites and rela
tives put in the government departments by
the republicans still retain their positions.
He says several members of the same fami-
lies still hold the offices to which they were
appointed through republican influence, and
that he knows of one family, twenty odd of
whom are in the pay of the federal govern.
ment.
IT. ia currently rennr,ed that Mr. rrbonoo,