Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-04
ROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. i, 1886

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Mr.. Butler Malone, son of the General,
won $1,000 at the races here last week. At
yesterdays races he won S., 400, of which he
gave 800 to the negro jockey who rode the
winuiDg horse.
Senators Butler and Aldrich reported
here to-day. Senators Edmonds, Morrill,,
Pugh and Cameron were here before.
The French visitors, M. Bartboldi, De Les.
scps, and others, called at the White House
this morning and hSd an agreeable inter-
view with the President Of their older sister
republic
y Weli-known democrat from the Rich
mond district in Virginia here to-day SAYS
that had it not been for Mr.. John Wise,
Mr., George Wise, the democratic candidate
for Congress there, would been defeat.
ed along with the other democratic con-
gressional candidates who were defeated in
that State but that Mr.. John Wise by
kicking up fuss with the knights of labor
and abusing their candidate, drove all the
labor men who had left the democratic
party back to the support of the democratic
| candidate and thereby secured bis election.
He says Mr. John Wise, who was employed
by the boycotters to defend them, has with.
drawn from that case.
AS regards the political complexion of the
A4S-No
rooms Of the republican congressional cam.
paign committee it is claimed that the repub-
licans will have it by a majority of three,
while Mr.. Clark, the clerk of the present
House, says the democratic majority will be
less than four. Most every BODY agrees
that liz color will depend On the direction
the labor men elected will take. Late pri-
vate dispatches received here day remove
all doubt OF Morrison's defeat, and confirm
the reported defeat Of Carlisle and Springer.
Hill Of Ohio, who, by the by, is native Vir-
ginian is also defeated.
The Cabinet meeting to-day was attended
by all the members. What particular met.
terwas considered ia known to none but
themselves, but it is generally thought that
the result OF Tuesdays elections was the
chief topic of discussion. The President. it
is understood, is of the erroneous impression
! that the election of Judge Peckham in New
York is s. personal endorsement of himself,
and that the defeat of democratic congress.
men was caused solely by the unpopularity
of thoso candidates or of the principles aud
policy they supported. 1t is said he is per-
tectly satlshed with the result, and looks
upon it rs Indicative Of bis own re nomina.
ton, as the party will accept it as lesson
| that be is the only man with whom il
can possibly win. As he doesn't read the
newspapers it is not probable he will be
disabused of this sadly Incorrect impression.
"a from what is known of the members of
his cabinet especially the three Southern
members, it is not supposed they will dare
to give him q correct statement of the true
condition of public feeling, and tell him that
he, and he alone, is the cause of the demo-
cratic defeat.
Col. Jack Brown, OF Georgia. says the same
apathy existed in his State as in Virginia at
the recent election, and that some Congress.
men were elected there in districts in which
not more than t8o thousand votes were
polled.
Private dispatches received here this af.
ternoon from Indianapolis say the republi-
cans have clear majority on Joint ballot in
the legislature OF Indiana. This will secure
the return OF a republican Senator from that
State, though even the republicans before
| the election conceded that a democrat
/. would occupy the seat now filled by Senator
Harrison
An OK democratic congressman from the
South, here to-day, when talking about the
result OF The late election this morning, said
II would pct every democrat on bis metal
and show the unwisdom of policy that
was terrible 10 friends and conciliatory to
|
tainabie purism in American politics; that it
would subduo the boom for secund Cleve.
land term aud make the next nationa! DEM
ocratic convention nominate democrat
about whom there is no doubt. He also
said it would make tbs republicans more
aggressive than they had been, for believing
they have every thing in their own hands,
they will doubtless act accordingly, and
| thereby induce the democrats to unite
again.
There arc two negroes in the present
Congress, Smal's from South Carolina and
O'Hata from North Carolina. Both had
coored republican rivals last Tuesday. and
thereby le5 white democrats come in and
secure their places, so that the next Con-
gress will again be purely Caucasian.
Two CT the democratic candidates in
North Carolina were defeated, Graham and
| Reid. Graham is tbs brother of tho MIR. Gra
ham who was clerk If the civil service com
mission, wrote public letter ia favor Of
civil service refoila, and was promoted from
his position undor the civil service commits.
sion to a higher place.
The prevailing impression among the
democrats hero is that Oh the whole the re-.
suit Of T say'a elections was blessing in
disguise, and that the defeat had better be
now than two years hence, as it would have
been had Mr.. Cleveland's administration
been endorsed by tho popular vote, and
thereby secured his denomination which is
now looked upon as impossible.
Congressman Eustace Gibson, of West Virginia,
who arrived here at noon to-day from his home
says he fears his State has not only sent solid
republican delegation to Congress, but that the
Legislature is republican and will send Mr.. Goh
a republican, to the Senate in place of Senator
| Camden.
| William Eilinger, formerly Of Harrisonburg,
Va, but now of Oregon, was to-day appointed ono
| of the commissioners to examine completed por-
ton of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
| OUR CONFESSION.
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