Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-08-21
From Washington
Especial Correspondence of the Alexs. dAzErrhl
NAsHINer TON. d. c., Aug. p, 1888.


The campaign battle in Virginia may be.
gin at any moment on the republican slde,
the national committee in New York hav-
ing lust issued authority TO Judge VIM. G.
Riley. of Accomac, to open fire whenever
the Judge shall see fit to draw his bead"
on the fugitive democratic army. This au.
thority to precpitate hostillties is said to
have elme about 10 the following way.
When Col. Brady, the national committee
man arrived in n. Y the other day he was
eratfied to fud letter there from Judge
Riley making tender of his services for the
campaign free of any pecuniary cost on charge
to the committee. the party, or anyone else.
The letter on the whole was respectful to
the republican managers in Virginia, con-
tanning but two rather curt illusions, one to
General Mehone's conceit, and the other to
ths character of Senator Riddleberger's
whiskey, and was considered of such im
portance by Chairman Quay that 1t was laid
before the committee, who accepted the
Judges services on the terms proposed, and
as an earnest of their appreciation OF his
unsel6sh offer Immediately ordered two
large boxes of campaign documents to his
rooms at Wizards Hotel, in this city. 1t
is possible the Judge may make his first
speech at Fairfax Court House.
Represent atve Brown of the Danville dis
trct says the delegates appointed yesterday
ia Pittsylvania county to the republican
congressional convention of that district
were uninstructed, and that he thinks
majority of them are for hin. An effort was
made TO instruct them for Judge Blackwell
but it failed. He thinks now his renomina
ton is assured Representative Browne of
the Accomack district, who has been home,
sick, for the past four or FIVE days, has re
turned. He says he thiaks he will be re.
nominated by reclamation. Representative
Yost says that Mr.. Roller. who has an
nounced himself a protectionist candidate
for Copgress in the 9TH Virginia district,
will receive the republican vote OF that dis
trict, and that he would not be surprised If
he were to heat Mr.. O'Ferrall, as Mr..
O'FerralI's majority over him two years ago,
when he ran as an independent democrat,
was only about seven hundred. Represen-
tative Lee Of the Alexandra district says
the democrats of Fairfax and Culpeper
counties 10 his district met yesterday and
elected Lee delegates to the congressional
convention. He says the democratic out
look in his district is decidedly favorable,
and that SO far as he can learn it is the same
way throughout his State. Senator Faux
ner of West Virginia, says that the action
of the recent democratic convention of his
State affords general satisfaction that the
democrats there are in better condition than
they have been for many years, and that
there is nothing in the talk about West
Virginia being an uncertain State.
Representative Hopkins, of the Lynch
burg district. says that while the knights of
labor in his State may not be as numerous
now as they were two years ago, owing to
assessments and other causes most of them
will vote the anti. democratic ticket at the
coming election.
The House to day resumed the consider
alton of the deficiency bill, MIR. Lyman, re-
publican, of Iowa, who has heretofore been
obstructiDg business by demanding a quo
rum when he knew there was none, with
dra wing his objection for the reason. IA he
the benefit of ex-Union soldiers, aud he
would do nothing to interfere with such lit
tie favors as the democratic majority was
disposed to grant them. He said he and
his party had for months past been striving
to have a day fixed for considering gener-
al pension bill, but the democrats had op.
posed them at every point, and that his late
course in obstructing legislation had been
adopted solely for the purpose of forcing the
democrats to do justice to the men who had
saved the Nation. The bill having been call,
ed up, Mr.. Seney, of Ohio, made q long
speech on the section relating to the pay
ment of the French spoliation claims.
The Senate met at eleven O'Clock to day
and Immediately resumed the consideration
of the Canadian fisheries treaty, MIR. Nor
gan Flushing his speech in favor of that
treaty. He concluded by saying be knew
that the republican caucus, for campaign
purposes, had doomed the treaty to defeat,
but that though the Southern Senators had
done all they could TO prevent that defeat,
should the result be war with the greatest
naval power in the world, the South now,
as in all the other foreign wars of the Union,
would be found standing shoulder to should
er with the North 10 defense of the common
country. The ratification of the treaty was
defeated by strict party vote 81 to 90 Mr..
Daniel voted with the minority. MIR. Rid
deberger was absent but was paired with
Mr.. salisbury.
The democrats have another just cause
of complaint against the Presidents pet
Secretary, Mr. Villas Mr.. Stevenson, the
executive officer OF th- geological survey,
die aud before several worthy aud comps-
tent democrats. who out of respect for the |
dead man, waited until he was buried before
applying for his place, could present their
applications, Mr.. Villas appointed Mr.. W.
a. Crotfut, q republican, who, it is said, had
been engaged in supplying northern repub-
ican newspapers with campaign matter.
The place is worth So 900 year and trav.
cling expenses. So great is the dissatisfac-
ion occasioned by the appointment in view
IF the fact that thousands of good and true
democrats, who have been working for
he party for years, have in vain
applied for places not half so valuable, that
[ is said the attention of the national dem
,cratic committee has been directed to it,
md that they have laid protest before the
President, where, in all probability, it will
emain indefinitely.
representative Wise and Presidential Elector
Illett both of Richmond, who went from here to
alexandria yesterday to consult with the State
committee about their summing an