Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-20
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WARRINGTON. j.. c., Oct. 60, 1885.
The Virginia democratic association OF
this city received, this morning, another
contribution from the East Capitol demo-
cratic Climb, accompanied with the expressed
hone that the reputable people OF the Old
Dominion may obtain decisive victory
over their arch enemy, Malone, in the
present campaign. =.
1t Gov. Lewis, of Virginia, is in the city,
the guest Of his sonin-!aw, Mr.. John Amber
Smith. Mr.. Smith says the Governor VIII
not vote for Mr.. Wise at the coming eiec,
ton, all the assertions of Mr. Wise ana OF
General Mahone's newspaper organs 10 tne
contrary notwithstanding. Mr.. Smith says
Governor Cameron has appointed his broth
er, f. H. Smith, weighmaster at the state
cattle scales.
n,emher Of Congress from his State, who
is here, in talking about the Virginia
campaign this morning, and especially
obopt Ire proposed speeches to be made in
that state by the bloody shutters, Logan,
sherman and Foraker, said it behooVed
avery good citizen of that State, republican
es we'll as democratic, colored as well as
white. adopted as we'll as native, whether
he was satisfied with all the acts OF the pres
ent administration or not, TO vote the
straight democratic ticket at the coming
election. in order to show the people of the
North that Virginia has no part nor lot in
the bloody shirt business, and that so far as
lies within her power she scorns and con.
tennis it.
A gentleman from Loudoun county, Vir-
ginia, here to-day, says his colored servant
told him yesterday that on the night before,
Sunday, at colored church in his neighbor-
hood, the preacher read circular letter
from General Malone urging the negroes to
vote as a unit for his candidates, for the rea-
son that if the democrats were successful
every colored school in the State would be
closed. 1t is by such tricks that the Gen
eral is trying to maintain the solidity OF the
colored vote, and so gullible are the negroes
that those who know them best fear he VIII
succeed.
Under the opinion of Attorney General
Blair of Virginia, rendered at the last cleo
ton in his State, non-residents are allowed
to vote, no matter how long they have been
out of the State, provided they have not
voted elsewhere, as the question in such
cases is purely one of intention. The Virginia
State democratic committee should see that
the hundreds of Virginia democrats in this
CITY who have never voted outside of Vir-
pinia, and who always claim Virginia as
their home, are carried back to Virginia to
be registered and to vote. They would all
90 if they knew they had the right to do so.
It is understood hero from Gen. Mahone's
headquarters at Petersburg that the General
has but little hope of carrying Alexandria,
and that his efforts there, if he makes any
az all. will be not to make votes for his Legis.
lative ticket, which be thinks cannot be
elected, but merely 10 get out his full vote
80 as to prevent the vote for Governor from
making too bad show. 1t is also under
stood that the little, if any, money he may
think it worth while to spend there, will DO
disbursed, not by the county committee, but
by Mr.. Lewis Mckenzie.
"Col." Bob Harlan, the colored republi-
can candidate for the Ohio Legislature, who
was defeated at the recent election, is a
we'll known Western turfman, and is here
TO attend the races. He asked Virginian
this morning if Governor Foraker and SEN
ator Sherman, who talk Of stumping Vir
ginia for General Malone, would be in any
personal danger if they made speeches in
Virginia. He was told none at all, and that,
on the contrary, nothing would please the
Virgnians better than for them to come, and
that the more vindictive their speeches
might be the better they would be relished,
IA such speeches always had an effect OK
actly contrary TO that intended.
AS a sample of the complete and entire
suhseryienco of the Maboneitcs to their
master, a subservience that compels then,
to repeat and endorse his ISLANDERS upon the
people of their own State, it is mentioned
that one of the members Of Gen. Mahone's
Court Of Appeals when in the city recently
one who few years ago, judging from his
expressions then, was the most ultra, pro.
scriptive and violent Southern man in the
State-when asked about the probable re-
suit of the coming election there, replied
that if the suffragans were free to vote as
they pleased Wise would be elected, but as
they had not that freedom he did not know
what the result would be. And yet Eirginians
who live near this Judge and know him
intimately say that for the life of him he
cannot mention single instance in which the
privilege Of q man in his State to vote as
he pleased has been denied, except possibly
when n negro has been made hot by his
own race for voting the democratic ticket.
The postmaster at Huntington, w. Va,
fearing removal, resigned about week be-
fore the expiration of President Arthur's |
term and had his deputy appointed in his |
place. His own term would not have ex-
pired until the last Of this month. Con-
gresham Gibson. from West Virginia, has
been to see the President in reference to
that office, and expects that at the expira.
ton of the term for which the resigned post
master was appointed, the end of the cur
rent month, good and true democrat will
be appointed to the place.
The public letter which it has been an
nounced Governor Cameron is to write de.
nouncing General Malone, has not yet ap
peared, and it is doubtful if it will. But
it will or will not, it is positively
asserted here that the Governor has written
letter to one of his friends, telling him that
be is true and sincere supporter of the
Generals ticket, State and legislative, and
advising him to be the same.
The contract for building light house, to
% known as Plantation Light House, in
Bay, near Cape Charles City,
Va, has been awarded to the Allentown