Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondents OF the Aexnnofia eaaeu'e''
WhapINGrnN d c.. Oct. %, 1885.

Tt is reported here that MIR. Lewis NC
Senzie, to whom General Malone gave Inc
poodle with which to "deliver" to MN the
republican vote of Alexandria city ana coun-
~, fooled away iilty-doilars OF IL LOT eSPeh,
yes for meeting at Perry Carsons cqio,eu
restaurant here last Monday night. IL MT.
Mckenzie throws the Generafs money
about so "loose and careless" so early, ne
wont have much to spend on election DAY
and, with people who sell their votes, itis
the last money they get that secures their
ballots.
It has been previously announced in this
correspondence that Col. Nat. Tyler would
be q candidate for the doorkeepership ofthe
u. S. House of Representatives, made va
cant by the death OF Mr.. Wintersmith., Col.
TYLER was the editor of the Richmond En-
Guirer before the war, and is well and favor
ABLY known not only 10 virginia but
throughout the entire South. He is good
and true democrat, and while supporter OF
civil service reform, believes that enough
GOOD and competent men can be found III
the democratic party to fill all the offices.
DR.. Strayer, of Shenandoah county, Va,
The clerk of Senator Riddlebergers COM
mittee, who was here yesterday. told his IN.
innate political friends that while General
Lee would be elected, General Malone is
certain to have majority of the Leglsla-
ture. This tends to corroborate what q re-
nublican from the eastern part OF Virginia
told the GAzETTE's correspondent yester-
day evening, which was in effect, that Gen.
Malone could not rely upon some OF the
men he had selected as his candidates for
the Legislature, and fearing that If Wise
and Blair be elected, they, and not he, will
be credited with the victory, and that one
of them, or possibly Governor Cameron,
would be the man his disaffscted followers
would centre upon for .. s. Senator, and
force the others to support him as the only
means by which to prevent the election of a
democrat.
Mr.. John Wolz, of Fredericksburg, form
erly one of the leading republicans in east
ern Virginia, is here to-day. He says that
Spotsylvana and Caroline counties will both
go democratic, but that the whole of the
Northern neck will go for Malone. He
says Malone stock is booming, and that
the democrats will have to strain mighty
hard in order to pull through.
The Baltimore democrats who voted be-
fore they came here todayare very anxious
about the result of the municipal election
now in progress in their city. They say
there are thousands of Virginia democrats
who are voters there nearly all of whom
have .cone back" on them. They say theil
sole dependence lies in the five strong
democratic wards.
More interest is felt here in the result OF
the approaching election in Virginia than
| in any thing else now talked about. People
| from all the States are anxious 10 hear any
thing that pertains to it, and New Workers
seem to be moro concerned about it than
about that Of the one to be held on the same
day in their own State. Awell known North
ern republican said confdentially to the
GAZETTE'S correspondent to day, he hoped
not so much for the sake of Virginia, though
he would feel sorry for her, but for the rep
utation of the whole country, that Malone
would be relegated to the obscurity from
which, in au evil hour for itself, the republi-
can party had brought him.
The Presidents announcement that after
The 1st day of November he will decline to
grant interviews to those seeking public po
stjons or TO their advocates is the topic of q
good deal OF talk here to day. The repub-
lican office holders walk harder upon their
heels in consequence of it than they did yes.
terday, and the democratic Office seekers
are correspondingly depressed.
Ex-U. s. Minister 10 Spain, Mr.. Foster, Ell.
tertaincd his successor, Rev. DR.. Curry, and
Vile, AT GlHueT ye9teEuay evening. huloGE
the guests were Secretary Bayard, Chief
Justice Waite and the Spanish minister to
this country.
1t is reported to-day that as soon after
next weeks elections as possible there will
| be general change in the officers Of the
District of Columbia, even including the
members of the District Commission, except
ing Mr.. Webb, the recently appointed re-
publican.
A gentleman here to.day, who left Har.
risonburg, Virginia, after the speaking there
yesterday was over, says Judge Harris was
cooked and primed with Governor Foraker's
bloody shirt speeches in Ohio, and was
anxious to reply to him, but that the Gov
ernor very wisely declined a discussion.