Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-09-14
ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE AND VIRGINIA ADVERTISER.

licans in nearly every section'of the State
with whom the General has quarreled, ana
who now either oppose him openl or give
him only half hearted support. Inc Ma
ior. it is said. will advise the republicans OF
Virginia to follow the example OF those OF
New York and Pennsylvania, who Voteo LOT
Governor Cleveland and Governor fatlison
in order to break down corrupt boss RUE.
It ia also understood that he, too, THINKS
the war ia over, and that if, as General Ma
hone said, when the republicans neld Inc
Government, it would be wise Tor the peopB
Of Virginia to be on the strong side, that
reason should hold good now, especially as
the national democrats had been wise
enough to elect such an unsectional Presl-
dent as Mr. Cleveland, and those OF Vir-
einia to nominate so conciliatory man as
General Lee for Governor, no he believes
will be elected by large majority.
Congressman Cole, OF Maryland, who IS
here to-day, says he is going over TO Alex
andria to see his old friends of the 18th Vir-
ginia, and to put his two boys to school,
there. Talking about the objections urged
to Mr.. Thomas, of Baltimore, who has re-
Gently been appointed to an Indian inspec-
torship. he says the only objection to Mr..
Thomas is that he is true blue working
democrat, and consequently is not liked by
the mugwumps.
A commercial traveller Just here from q
trip through Shenandoah and Rockingham
counties saws that if all the other counties Of
the State vote as those two counties will,
General Lee will have forty thousand ma
| iority. A Virginian from Rockbridge coun'
ltv in the same section of the State, says
the conciiatory speeches General Lee maze
in that county have won back all the repu
table democrats who went off on the deb'
question and that he will receive large
majority there.
n. W. Cocbiil, of Chesterfield county
Virginia, has been appointed mail route
agent between Richmond and Danvllle.
General Field, who now holds Govern
ment position at the Hot Springs of Arkan
sas, writes here that he will not be q candi
date for the doorkeepership of the House
made vacant by the death of Mr. Winter
smith.
Quite number of removals certainly ir
the Treasury, and probably in some OF the
other departments, are expected to morrow
If Governor Hoadly would get q copy O
Senate report No. 2G5 of the first session o
the Nth Congress he could enlighten the
people of his State as to the means by
which Senator Sherman made the Govern
ment pay his private expenses when Score
tary of the Treasury. The evidence is al
there, sworn to, and goes to show how
man can not only live high on low salary
but accumulate large fortune besides. A
republican from Ohio, here to-day, in talk
ing with Virginia republican said that the
bloody shirt campaign now being fought by
the republicans in Ohio had driven many o
the better men of the party away from it, q:
they can see no good but only injury, II
reviviug sectional hate that had almost dice
out.
Among the large number of democrats
who have expressed their intention of goins
over to Alexandria tomorrow night to hear
Congressman Daniel are Congressman Nc
NIillep, Richardson and Taylor of Tennessee
Ward and Kleiner, of Indiana, Commission
Or Atkins, Mr.. Porter, Assistant Secretary
of State, and other prominent men.
1t is reported here to day from Maine
that Mr. Blaine, in order to keep before the
public, as Mr.. Logan will be sure to do by
reason of his position as Senator, will try
to obtain the republican nomination fol
Governor of his State.
The Chinese laundries here do such good
work that many families give them all their
washing. The negro washerwomen protest
against this, and threaten to induce the
knights of Labor to take action in the prem
ises.