Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-11-07
From Washington
Especial Correspondence OF the Alexs. dAzErrzl
WASHING ron. ID. c.. Nov. I, 1883.

WASHING ron. ID. c.. Nov. I. 1855.
Many of the people who left here to vote
at Yesterdays election have returned, and
the CITY presents decidedly more active
appearance to day than it has done for sew
eral previous days. Teegraphic dispatches
! concerning the election are being received
aud buletined at several places, ali Of which
are surrounded by large ADD interested
crowds. The republicans are elsted and the,
democrats depressed. the appearance of
things nj the White House was sad and
gloomy. Mrs Cleveland, her mother, and
Miss Harmon, who had remained there last
night TO hear The news, drove out to Oak
View this morning They were unaccom
panied, and all seemed TO be greatly de
pressed. The President, himself, was invis
IDLE, aud even his clerK, Ar Lamont, sent
word 10 theNnewspaper men who called that
he could not see them. Among democrats,
the prevailing opinion concerning the result
a. Judged by their expressions, ID that the
President is the sole cause of the
defeat and they speak of him n no meas
ured iertns for the injury he has Inflicted
upon the party. Representative Taulhee,
who canvassed the rural districts In New
York, says that wherever he went he no.
ticed apathy and iukewarmne5s among the
party, and was Invariably tod that the
cause thereof was the Presidenpa advocacy
of the civil service reform humbug policy
and his fondness for the republican mug
wumps. Mr.. Taulbee attributes the defeat
TO that cause, and says he is glad that he
opposed such policy from the irst and put
himself on record to that effect. MIR. Frank
Hume, prominent democratic merchant of
this city, says the party was defeated be-
cause the President turned his back on the
best and truest of its members Mr.. Colum
bus Alexander, one of the old leaders OF the
party in this city, says he has heretofore
contributed literally 10 tho psrty's funds,
but that he did not give one cent TO help to
re elect man who thinks more of his enc
mics than Of his friends. Representative
Cummings, OF New York. says there are 1900
republicans in the postoffice of his city who
work ed for Harrison and that that alone was
sufficient to cause the democratic loss there.
Senator Germans friends say that solemn
pledges we're made to New York democrats
in 1884, that were broken, and that the
prominent men to whom they were made
have never forgiven Mr. Cleveland A lead
ing official in one of the departments here
saws the sole cause of the defeat was Mr..
Cevelaud's desire to retain the mugwump
and gain the negro vote, and that to crafty
that desire be sacrificed his own party. And
such is the general tenor of democratic talk
10 town.
The latest news received here up to two
o'clock this afternoon is to The effect that
both the electoral ticket and the legislature
OF New Jersey ara democratic, that Con.
neoticut Is democratic; that New York is
republican, and that Indiana is still doubt.
fnl, though Mr.. John @. New teegraphs here
that 1t is republican by ten thousand.
While the inmates of the White House were
waiting for the latest dispatches received before
daylight this morning, they saw through the
closed window blinds procession of drunken and
noisy negroes of all ages, sizes aud conditions,
marching by, hopping, yelling. horn blowing and
hurrahing for the election of Harrison and Nor
ton. It is supposed that then the President ex-
rerienced realizing sense OF his unwse policy of
endangerng the support of his own party friends
by his vain attempt to gain that of the negroes.