Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1886-11-13
FROM WASHINGTON.
epccia! Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Is, 1886.

9pccia! Correspondence of tho Alexa. GAZETTE
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov. Is, 1886.
Representative Barbour, of Virginia, was
in the city to-day seeing about the prepare
ton Of his house here Tor his soourn during
the coming session of Congress. In short
talk with the GAZETTE 8 correspondent, Mr..
Barbour said that in addition to the failure
Of the President to recognize the men who
had nominated and elected him, the repre-
sentatives of the party were treated with
scant courtesy at the White House and at
the departments,and were apparently looked
upon there as interlopers, and that the gentle
men they carried to them were treated with
no courtesy at all, and made to feel
as though they had committed trespass by
going there. He said the Offices of the Gov
ernment did not necessarily belong to re-
publican incumbents but that such seemed
to be the impression at the Departments,
and that the way some of the applicants for
been treated was one of the reasons
that induced him to decline a re.
election. He said he did not think the
President was aware of the real feeling of
his party toward him, and that it devolyed
upon those who had the interests of that par
ty at heart to inform him of that feeling
Mr.. Barbour is already in recsipt of letters
from some of tho most prominent leaders
Of the national democracy, men who have
even in recent years occupied the highest
positions i'll the gift of the people of their
| respective States, endorsing his views upon
the subject of the cause OF the recent demo-
cratic defeat and thanking him for express
ing them. Mr.. Barbour, nor any other good
democrat thinks of making war upon the
administration, but he deems it his duty to
speak out in meeting for the good of the
| President, as we'll as of the party. 1t is
we'll known to all the newspaper CORE
| spondents here who converse with demo-
cratic congressman upon the subject, Sena-
tors and Representatives alike, that nearly
| every one of them agrees with Mr.. Barbour,
but, as they have moro favors to ask of the
| administration, hesitate to say So lest those
favors be denied them.
Mr.. Benedict, the public printer, is said
/ to have been the only democratic member
| Of the New York Legislature who voted
against the civil service law, and it is said
here is so intense democrat that he trades
only with democratic merchants, and yet it
is said that among the men ne reinstated
this week are two "ofensiYen repub-
licars, so offensive" that they are mem.
hers of the Tyson House Gang, a repub-
|
| A member Of the Virginia democratic az.
ISOLATION OF this city says they had no
trouble IN raising the money for the ex-
penses OF the late grand Barbour reception
and would have had none in raising five
times as much, bat that they experienced
great difficulty in raising enough to send
Firginians home to vote at the recent cleo.
ton. He says the democrats here knew
| what Mr.. Barbour'S views were and en-.
! dorsed them.
Senator Sherman was at the Capitol to-
day, and took possession of the Vice Pres
idenL's room, which, after the 4th of next
March, he will only hold by the votes of
Senators VanWyck and Riddleberger, to
neither of whom did he do anything at the
last session to make them enamored of him
A personal friend Of Senator Van Wyck,
who arrived here to-day, says that Senator
secured the election of enough friends to
the legislature of Nebraska to make him
confident Of reelection.
Gentlemen from Richmond, here to. day,
laugh at tho newspaper reports that have
been circulated here aud in the North lately
of an impending duel between Congressman
WISE, Of Virginia, and OK Mayor Lamb, of
| Norfolk and more recently, of Mr. Wise's
intention Of suing Nr. Lamb for slauder.
They say the originators Of these reports,
and they alone, know anything about the
matter and that the two gentlemen referred
to are as Eurh IN the dark about it rs any
one else
| The creaaoto company, to which Mr.. Rid
| dleoerSer paid his respects when last at tho
| Capitol, but ia manner that would not
have been agreeable 10 them if they had
been pTt5ent, p composed chiefly of u S.
Senators. They conduct their operations
In North Carolina, where they both make
| their creasGte and the lumber that is pre-
served b. il. The par value of the stock of
the company is $50, but it is now worth
$75.
Ex .Scnotor Hearst, of California, telegrapbs
| here to day that he will hare thirteen majority
in the legislature Of that state for reelection to
| tho Scuatc
| Col. Lamont hiss gone TO New York 1t is said
here by those who frequent the White House that
during his absence the President will talk but lit
tie aud write less.
The President is fond Of plain namo of Red
Top for his house, which, by the by has
doubled in value since be purchased in. His
wife. however, being esthetcally inclined, fayors
The prcttier name OF Prospect Cottage. To decide
| the question Mrs. Folsom was called upon, and
she settled the difficulty by suggesting the name
OF Oak View. which has been adopted, and thereby
afforded another evidence of the influence ofmoth-
ers in.law
Among the strarg gels now in the city is Mr.
OGonoEu2, of New York. He is the same gentle
men who, with Mr.. August Belmont appeared
before the Virginia delegation at the last national
democratic convention and srgucd in opposition
to the nomination of Mr.. Cleveland, stating that
if any body else were nominated he would guar
antce tho requisite funds for the conduct Of the
campaign Mr.. O'Donohue entertains the
same opinion Of Mr.. Cleveland that he did then,
and, what's more, doesn' hesitate to express it.
WILLING TO TALK II THEIR NAMES ARE