Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-09-29
FROM w WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence OF tho Alexa. GAzETrE.l
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. %. 1886.


WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 90, 1886.
The California republicans among the
royal arch masona row in ccnclave here say
that Senator Leland Stanford of their State
will be the next republican Presidential
candidate, that the republicans from the
whole Pacific slope will make that demand,
and that az they have heretofore supported
Blaine, they expect his friends in the East
to return the favor.
Glr. John Grail, Of Fairfax county, Va,
is one Of tho employees Of the Treasury
branch of the Government printing office
recently removed. Nearly four hundred
removals have been made in the Govern
ment printing Office since Friday last, and
the list Of removals is not yet completed,
though only few more will he made I'M
mediately. The cause Of the removals was
The expenditure Of q large part Of the ap.
preparation for the support of the Office by
Mr.. Rounds, the ex-public printer, in the
purchase Of immense stocks of material Tor
which there is no present use. One Of the
discharged employees says be wishes now
he had the dollar he subscribed to the fund
| that was collected from the hands in the
| Office that bought Mr.. Rounds, the cause Of
all his woe, the costly aid handsome silver
service recently presented him.
Congressman Croxton, of tho first Fir.
ginia district, passed through here yes!er.
day. He is confident of reelection, and
says the reported democratic detection in
| Accomac county amounts to nothing, and
| that his majority in that county will be lar
| ger than it was when he ran against Mayo
| two years ago.
1t is understood that the reason the nom
nation of General Dabney Maury, OF Vir-
| ginia, to be United States Minister to Bogo
| ia, was held up in the Senate until after the
| adjournment of that body, was the fact that
Senator Sherman said he had an anonymous
| letter, in which il wss stated that General
Maury had recently said in the presence Of
named witnesses that he hated the Ameri-
can flag. All Of the witnesses referred to
have since filed letters at the State Depart
ment denying the truth OF the statement,
and General Maury's application ia en-
dorsed by dozen prominent Union officers,
some on account of their personal knoWl-
edge Of him, and others on account of his
efforts to improve tho militia Of the country.
The Generals friends say they confidently
| expect his appointment to the place by the
| President at an early date.
| There are various rumOrs ailoat hero to-
day about an Independent democratic can
didate for Congress in the Alexandria dis
trict, and OF conferences to determine whom
that candidate shall be, but nothing definite
can be learned about their origin, and it is
believed that there is nothing to them
Such q candidate would necessarily have to
spend some money. no matter how little,
and no wise man will throw away even that
little in q contest that must be unsuccessful,
and that could not but mar his future polit-
ical prospects
A man OF affairs from the South in The
city to-day says the President knows little
! or nothing of the feeling and character Of
| the people Of that section Of the country al d
that such little knowledge OF them rs ne
has he has obtained from the congressman
aud office seekers from that section, and is
therefore necessarily incorrect and prejud-
cial. He says if the President would take
his wife TO Charleston, and ride, or better
still, walk through the streets most injured
by the recent earthquake, and talk with the
people he would meet, who never think OF
federal patronage, he would learn good
deal Of true Southern character and en-
dear himself not only TO the people of that
stricken city, but to many others throughout
the entire South.
Col. L. Q. Washington, Of Virginia is al appl-
can't for the vacant mission to Austria, and Gen.
| cral Pierce Young, of Georgia, Cnnsul general 10
| Russia, now home ON furlough, is an applicant
| for the same position 1t is said hero that cx-
| Senator Withcrs consul 70 Kong Kong now home
will hardly 60 back, as his health will not permit
him to do so.