Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-10-06

yoke and will vote the democratic tickes at
The coming election. He says there VIII oe
several democl attic gains in the Legislature
in his district.
Ex-Copgressnan Sayler, of Ohio, is here
Today. He says the election in ONO next
week will be close, buS that be Is lnduced
to think the democrats will win, and thae
strong republicans in that State, ACTIVE ana
knowing politicians, tell him go. In liam
ilton connty. the county that contains the
city OF Cincinnati, he says, Inc repuphcans
will lose largely, to some extent by reason
Of Mr.. Shermau's bloody shirt speeches.,
which have touched the pocket nerve OF
the business men of that city by driving
away Southern trade. He also says the
colored vote Of the State has been losing Its
solidity for some years, and that more col
ored people will vote the democratic ticket
there next fall than ever before.
Mr.. Randall is back here to-day; so is his
colleague Mr.. Scott and other Pennsylvania
democratic Congressman are either here or
are expected They were here some time
ago. but as the offices in their State have
not changed occupants at the rate they ex-
pected when they went away, they have
returned to inquire into the cause of the
DELAY, and to expedite matters, if that be
possible with President who will not be
rushed.
A prominent Southern democrat in the
city today SAYS the President, in the reorgan-
ization of the civil service commission, WILL
take one of its members from the South,
that in doing so he will be right, and that II
he were to fail to do so he would be declu-
edIy wrong. Unsectionalism, be said, IS
what Southern democrats, the men VINO
elected the President, have been STRIVING
after for many years, and that it would DC
curious, to say the least, if the President
they have elected should preserve the sec
tional lines in a matter 80 important TO the
whole country and SO essentially national
as the civil service.
Col. Lamont said to day that the Presi-
dent has written no letter relating to the
coming election in New York, and did not
intend to, and that it would be very
strange thing if a democratic President had
to write letter to induce people to think
he hoped for democratic success not only in
New York but in any other State. To all
true democrats, he said, democratic victo-
ry in New York would be gratifying, and as
the President was one of that sort, such a
victory would be as gratifying to him as to
any of the others.
There is q good deal Of talk here today
bill from the room Of the republican COM
mittee On patents of the republican Senate
authorizing the Attorney General to insti-
tute suits annuling patents fraudulently
obtained.
Well-nformed republicans from Virginia,
here today, say that Malone has recently
helped the democrats in his State by insist
ing that the few old republicans who contem.
plated running for the Legislature should
bind themselves TO his support before he
would agree that his followers should vote
| for them They mentioned one or two cases
| in which republicans, who would have stood
chances of election had they been candi-
dates, as they expected to be, who, by the
| course Malone has pursued, have been in
duced to withdraw, and their places been
filed by men who would make the required
pledge, but who will not be half as strong
with the voters as they would have been.
| Among the democratic Congressman now
| in the city there is some talk about the re-
organization of the next House. The pre-
valing opinion among them is that proba-
bly all the old officers will be reelected.
There are so many candidates for the door
keepers place, made vacant by the death OF
MIR. Wintersmith, that nobody seems to
know who has the best chance. Among
those most spoken of in connection with the
place are Mr.. Donaldson, of Tennessee, APP
pointment Clerk Higgins, Of the Treasury,
and Col. Nat. Tyler, of Virginia. As to the
committees, some still talk about the aboli-
ton of the appropriations committee, and
giving Mr.. Randall the naval committee,
which, now that new navy is to be con-
sructed, will be O more important COM
mittee than ever before; but the probability
is that the committees will remain as they
are and that Mr.. Randall will have his old
one. All concede the necessity of rule
that will expedite the reporting Of the reg
ular appropriation bills. so as to avoid the
hurry and skurry that for years past have
disgraced the closing hours of the sessions.
The sixth opening of the National Thea
tire in this city was witnessed last night by
brilliant throng. This theatre has been
four times destroyed by fire and rs many
times rebuilt with more elegant appoint
ments. Miss Wheeler recited 81 poem dedi
catory of the building. Rhea appeared in
the titular role of O new play-"Lady Ash
ley" The poti stale and the incidents often
unnatural and even absurd. Mile. Rhea
was fairly we'll sustained. Her own part
was as perfectly rendered as it could be by
one who labors under the disadvantage of
speaking broken English. Mr. Rapley was
called for, but being too modest to appear,
he sent substitute before the curtain who
gave brief sketch Of the history of the
National Theatre, aud, in Mr.. Rapley's
name, thanked various persons employed in
the construction of the new building.
There is no democratic Congressman from
Maine. Therefore the democratic committee Of
that State not unnaturally expect to have some
thing to do with the disposal of tho federal pat
ronage there, and some of them here are now for
that purpose. But so few changes are being made
any where, that they think it hardly necessary
for them to remain here any longer
THE CANVASS
Rooms STATE DEM. Elk. COMMITTEE,
Alexandria, Va, Oct. 6, 'S5.
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