Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-11-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence Of tho Alexandria Gasetl

Especial Correspondence Of the Alexandria dasettei
WASHINGTON. D. c., Nov. 6, 1885
It is understood here among people who
have the entree of the White House and
the Departments, that tho result of the re-
cent election in Virginia is exceedingly
gratifying.to the President and his Cabinet,
not only as an indication that the policy of
the administration is endorsed, but because
it shows that the South will remain solid, so
that as at the last Presidential election, it
will only require the votes of New York
and three other pretty safe Northern States
to secure another national democratic vic
tory in 1885. The result in Virginia is cred
ited by the administration to the account of
Mr.. Barbour, of whose qualifications as a
political manager it has the highest estims-
ton, and to whom it deems itself indebted
for the qualification it feels at the great vic.
tory that gentleman has attained in Eir-
GINA.
Mr. Bayard's manners, it is said by those
who know him, have undergone rcmarka.
Bile change since he became Secretary CT
State, in that whereas he was before he be-
came member of the Cabinet, courteous to
all and even genial with those who knew
him we'll, he is now b1u:que ifnot positively
boorish, and cold and even discourteous to
those who were his closest friends. 1t is
said his airs rs they are called, have so dis
eusted the two South Carolina Senator's
who were his intimate personal associates
when he was their Senatorial colleague, that
ono ofthem has written him note request
ing him to have his name erased from all
the applications in his department., and that
the other left his Office with such manifest
displeasuro that he was induced thereby to
write him an apologize letter. 1t has be-
come common thing for gentlemen known
to have once been friendly with Mr.. Bayard
to say to those of their friends who apply for
their influence with him to get them Offices.
II will write you 4 letter, but | cannot go
with you to the State Department., as | do
not wish to subject myself 10 insult. But q
little brief authority has made many an
abier man than Mr.. Bayard play fantastic
tricks.
Congressman wilkins, of Ohio, who is
here to day, says the loss Of the Legislature
in his State was positively criminal. 1t was
only lost, he says, by barely two votes and
there were several counties in the State in
which two could have been saved if the
democratic voters had not been deferred
from coming out by reason of the way in
which the civil service has been conducted.
In one ward of Cleveland alone, he says,
eleven hundred democrats refused to vote
because while they and their friends were
on strike for living wages they received
their mail at the hands of men who had
previously been active republican politi-
clans.
Regarding the Virginia Senator to be
elected next month, it is said by democrats
from other States that unless the democrat
ic members of the Virginia Legislature elect
Mr.. Barbour they will prove themselves TO
be even more ungrateful than the man he
has Just enabled them to defeat, whose in.
gratitude is monumental. People from Vir-
gnia here, however, say that Mr.. Barbour
will have no more trouble in being elected
Senator than he had in carrying the close
counties in his State, and that it is by no
means improbable that before the democrat
ic caucus of the Legislature shall be held he
will have no opponents and be nominated
unanimously.
Several Of the recently elected members
of the Virginia Legislature are in the city
today. They seem to think that Judge
Stuart, on account Of his knowledge of
parliamentary law and his experience as
Speaker of the House of Delegates of his
State, will be re elected to that position.
There are several democratic Senators
and more democratic members of the House
in the city to-day. The all agree that the
recent elections prove that the democrats
have come to stay, and they say democrats
in Congress will support the democratic
President.
The prevailing impression among demo
Gratis here from all parts of the country is
that the reorganized civil service commission
will manage that service, not as their prede
cessors have done, with the object of retain
ing republicans in Office and of appointing
more republicans to Office, but so as to give
democrats at least an equal chance for the
few Offices that are open to competition.
appointed to laborer's place in the Treas.
ury Department to-day.
DEMOCRATIC GAINs.-Analysis and com.
parison of the returns of the elections on