Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-11-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
lspeoial Correspondence Of the Ale1s. GAzErrEl


Especial Correspondence of the Ale1s aAzrrTEl
WASHINGTON. d. O.. Nov. L, 1859.
Lapgston, the colored republican contest
ant for Mr. Venable's seat in The U. .. House
of Representatives, and who though
"kicker" up to week before the eiection,
Suddenly sucoumbed to the malign intu-
sncen of General Malone and spoke and
wrote in favor of the Generals election, ar.
rived here last night from Petersburg. He
ems to be not at all depressed by the re-
suit of the election, but says he will say
nothing about it until he shall have read
the address on the subject which he under.
stands General Malone is preparing. When
thut shall be issued, he ssys, he will be pre-.
pared to talk. Il Is understood that in the
address referred to Gen. Malone will assign
as one of the causes of his defeat bul!dosiDg
of the negroes by white democrats. If this
be 30 that charge can be fully offset by a
colored preacher from Alexandria named
Scott Akers, here to-day. He says he has been
30 abused and threatened by his own race
because he voted the democratic ticket, as
he thought he had right to do, that he has
been forced 10 have some of them arrested
and bound over to keep the peace, and that
now they are trying to drive him out OF his
church, and take it away from him, though
he raised the money with which to build 1t.
The admission of fraudulently elected
republican Senators from Montana, made
possible by the action of President Harrison,
will be resisted by the democrats in Con-
gress with all the ability and power at their
command.
Mr.. Frank Hume was at the court house
here this morning on business. He was
congratulated by almost everybody he met
there upon his recent election to the Vlr-
ginis legislature as the delegate from Alex
| apdria. Hs received almost an ovation
there, and his presence evoked as much
enthusiasm as 1t did in his own county on
election day. Mr.. Hume says he under
stands General Malone attributes has
defeat to fraud, but that siDce the
election he, Hume, has not seen q
man, who, from his own account,
voted the Malone ticket. MIR. Hume Cali
ed upon the Commissioners of the DistricI
! of Columbia to day and requested them to
| include recommendation for Mt. Vernon
Avenue in their annual report. He ia also
having O Autographed card sent to all the
knights tempars' Communicates throughout
the country asking the members Thereof, not
as knights or masops, but as Individuals to
speak a good word for Mt. Vernon Avenue
to the Congressman from their respective
districts.
The civil service commissioners have pow
obtained what they think sufficient evidence
to convict Elan, Goodwin and Berser, fed
eral Office holders from Virginis, of soliciting
contributions for General Mahone's election
fund. and within short time will give IL to
Dis iict Attorney Hoge and demand that he
present it to the grand jury. They cay that
tina excuse offered by the parties referred to-
namely, that they did not know their names
were on the soliciting circulars, will amount
to nothing, as the circulars had been issued
a month before that excuse was otferefs ami
| because the denial was not made until the
danger of prosecution became imminent
Several prominent republicans from ONO
are here now or have been since the cleo
ton. They all say they worked hard for
Foraker and regret his defeat, bat they
smile when they say this, and the vote OF
their respective districts show large republi.
can losses. The democrats from Ohio here
laugh at Senator Sherman's remark that the
selection of bis democratic colleague will be
a Doodle affair, aud FAY that wherever Mr..
| Sherman is known, bis name and Doodle are
bound together By hooks Of loot.
| Senator Vest WAS at the Capitol to-day
He SAYS the democrats are bound to regain
the country in '92 A democratic Senator
from Iowa, ne says, could have been easily
gained if an effort had been made to do 80,
aud the prohibition plank 10 the republican
platform of Massachusetts will, he says
make that State democratic next year; II
| came within an ace of being one last Tues
| day.
The President is not going to have the
| next republican defeat, as the late ones have
| been, attributed to his retention of demo
cratic Office holders He to day removed q
| large number of democratic Presidential
postmasters and large number of demo
cratic subordinates in the Internal revenue
service.