Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1888-03-10

q, Pennsylvania Avenue to day and were
81 the CAPITOL. They talked politics some,
and both seemed to think that republican
defeat In Virginia would be really better ior
the republican party than SUCCESS nnoer
General Malone and q reinstatement OF tne
Malone regime. II
Mr.. Canady, Sergeant alarms OF the U.
e. Senate, who, it has been stated. Is snGl'
neering movment to secure asoilu . nernan
delegation from North Carolina to tne na'
tional republican convention tod the VA.
zETTE's correspondent to day that wni,s ne
was g. Sherman man be badnG meouieu
with politics for six months, ana tnat ne was
now deyotiDg all his spare time 10 attempts
to earn some money.
SENATOR elect Barbour who las returned
from the recent meeting OF the centiai CON
rnittee of the democratic party OF his state
at Richmond, says all the members OF that
committee gave good accounts OF the conoi
ton of the party in their respective pofIionss
Of the State. Mr.. Barbour being asked II
he had changed his mind on the sufJ CT OF
tho Craftsmanship of the State committee.
replied that heretofore when there was any
deficit 10 the requisite funds for carrying on
the State campaigns he bad supplied 1t D3
! deyotipg to that purpose his salaries az rail-
roafi President and member of Congress,
neither of which he ia now receiving. Inc
| nosil,on, he eaid, should be filed by capt.
tn,ist. TO which class he did not belong.
Wnen asked what be thought of the proPo
sit;on 10 allow his name to be used as chair
man but let somebody else do the WORK, ne
said that would never do; that during the
Last fsW wears he had been offered several
merely nominal positions, with large sals-
ries attached to them, but had declined 'hein
all. ca experience proved that men who lena
their names usually suffer, and that ne De
lieyed public Office was public trust, ana
that he would not be chairman without at
tending strictly TO the duties OF the posltlon.
Mr.. Randal's revenue bill has now been
nrinted and will be introduced in the House
on Monday next, when it will be referred TO
the Wavs and Means Committe, where IL
will sleep the sleep that knows no waking.
Mr.. Randall himself doesn't expect for 1t
any other fate, and he only introduces IL 30
"a to be able to say, when he shsll oppose
the democratic bill, that he Ia in favor OF
such a revenue measure as has been recon-
meuded by some democrats, such, for IN
stance, as those of Virginia, whose conVen.
ton declared for the retention Of The tarih
and the repeal of the internal revenue sys'
| tenn.
The lodge of the Loyal Legion of this
CITY, of which Gen. Sheridan ia member
has black .balled Senator Ingalls, for his late
attack upon Gems. Mcclellan and Hancock
Inside news from New York s to the Ell
feet that the withdrawal of MIR. Blaine has
rather dieorgsnized the republicans, and
that really MIR. Sherman is the leading can
didate FOR the republican Presidential nomi
nation, because he is already openly in the
field while nobody else is, and because the
support of the others mentioned in connec'
ton with the nomination is only halt-heart-
| ed. Il is said, however, thet New York will
send Blaine delegation to the national con-
vention.
The directors of the Mt. Vernon Avenue
Association met at Wiliard's Hotel here TIL;
afternoon to perfect the bill they are to
have introduced 10 Congress for the benefit
of the proposed road.
| General Lee WAS to have addressed the virgin
| ia democratic association of this city last night
| He was present according to promise but asked
| to be excused OF account ofindisposition.
The Veteran Fire Association, Of Phiiadel
| phia pas ed through here to-day on their return
| from visit to New Orleans.
| 1t is rumored here that b1r. J. Bell Bigger
| Clerk of the Virginia House If Delegates from
time almost immemorial, will be candidate fol
the democratic nomination for Congress in bis
| the LAT Congressional district Of his State. Mr
| W. A. Jones Is also spoken Of in the sane connec
| lion