Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-18
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c.. Sept. IS, 1886.

FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence of the Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON D. c., Sept. IS, 1885,
At the regular weekly meeting of the Vir-
GINA democratic association of this city held
last night, Mr.. Byrd Lewis moved that
Mr.. Glasscock's resignation of the vice presi.
dency Of the association, rendered at the
last meeting, in consequence ofa letter from
Mr. Thorn, superintendent of the coast sur
vey, telling him in effect that his acceptance
of that position would be incompatible with
the retention of his clerkship in that bureau,
be considered, and offered some resolutions
criticising adversely the policy Of demo
cratic administration that would not let
democrat accept an honorary distinction in
democratic association that meets once O.
week after business hours, and the accept.
ance of which could not possibly interfere in
the remotest degree with the discharge of
the duties Of his federal clerkship Objec-
ton, however, was made upon the ground
that the resignation was only verbal one,
and that it could not be considered orderly
until made in writing
Tennessee democrat, here to day, says
the nomination of Mr.. Phelan, the Young
editor of the Memphis Aualanche, for Con-
gress was the protest of the democrats Of
that district against the Pan Electrics, of
whom Senator Harris and MIR. Casey Young
came there, and making all the other candi-
dates withdraw, put up Mr.. Patterson, q
leading and highly respected lawyer, but
their support was the cause Of his defeat.
He says Mr.. Phelan will be elected. If that
be so it will be gain, for Mr. lack TAYLOR,
a republican, represents that district now.
The result OF the primaries in Fauquier
county, Virginia, to-day, is supposed here to
indicate the nomination Of General Lee
by the democratic congressional convention
which meets al Culpeper Court House next
Thursday
Public printer Benedict says there must
and will be large reduction in the force OF
his office, but that those to be removed will
be designated by the heads of their respec-
tive divisions, and that in dischargng them
he, Benedict, will not know and vii! not
enquire about their politics. Personal friends
of Mr. Benedict, however, seem to think
that IS he ia q good and true democrat, none
of the employees Of his Office who have II
similar clear title need fear removal.
Mr.. Roderick Random Butler, Of Tenncs-
see, Il republican candidate for Congress,
who arrived here last night, tolls the follow
ing remarkable tale about The 9th congress
soaal district of Virginia. He says he met
Gen. Arthur Cummings, an old and promi-
nent democrat Of that district, on the train,
and was told by him that Bowen, the Ma.
hone candidate there, would be elected.
would carry the counties Of Smith Wash
ington, Lee, Scott and Russell, and the
county Of TazeWell by two to one; that Dir.
Dickinson, a leading democratic lawyer Of
that district, had declared for Bowen, and
asserted his intention of whipping anS man
who took him TO task for doing SO, and had
already had personal difficulty with Gen.
Terry. Mr.. Butler also says that Mr. Bal
ley, once one Of the Malone State Senators
from that district, the man who wrote let.
ter saying he had eaten btl5hel of dirt for
Malone, and would eat two moro if by do
ing SO he could get q judgcshp, has prepared
list Of some democrats in that district of
whom certain qualifications are to be reour-
ed in case they shall want to Join the re-
publican party, and that it includes the
| name of Mr.. Fulkerson, but that he will be
| taken in only on probation
While but few people here regret the DO.
feat of congressman King, Of Louisiana
Mr.. Cuthbert Jones, the Louisanian who
has been denouncing Mr.. King for some
time for all manner of crimes and msde-
meanors, is ecstatically delighted, and says
the devil will never get his duo unless he
has King hanging by the ribs.
A democratic politician from Baltimore,
here to-day, says that Mr.. Isadore Raynor
will be the democratic nominee for Congress
in the district now represented by Mr..
Findlay, the protection democrat, and that
he will be elected. He says Findlay COM
menced public life rs republican, aud as
republican introduced in the Maryland ley
io1o IF ba nhno -
Southern sympathizers, and that he only
became nominal democrat when he real
lied that Maryland was bound to be DEM
ocratic State. The gentleman referred to
says there is some talk Of the republicans
taking up MI. Findiay now that the demo.
Gratis have dropped him, but that the repub-
licans have no such intention, and that
General Angus, the editor Of the american,
the leading republican newspaper of that
city, told him if they were to. his paper
would not support him, as he believes that
a man seeking political positions should BIO
either one thing or another, and not little
of both and not much OF either.
Congressman George Wise, of the Rich.
mond district, in Virginia, left here on his
return to that city this morning. He came
here to hurry up the contracts for tie stone
and other material for the public building
in that city and to have the work COM
menced at once, and WAS successful. He
says his denomination has occasioned reg
ular boom, that his prospects are brighter
than ever before, and that he will certainly
be elected.
A Southern democratic Congressman,
now in the city, says there is good deal of
decentralization in his district, but that he
hopes to pull through, and that all the talk
about the popular endorsement Of the ad.
ministration, so far as his district is con
eerued, is bosh.
A good many knights templar from other
cities are here to-day, en- route to the grand
conclave to be held in st. Louis next week.
One of the most needed reforms in The
postal service has just been provided for by
the Postoffice Department This is the sep
aration of the old Pacific coast division
of postof1ice inspection which was much too
large for efficient service, and the formation