Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-05-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
,isl Correspondence OF the AleIs. GAzETTrl

ments Yesterday. They claim to have
scored a double victory, first, In demonstrate
ing to the President and his advisers the
nonsence OF any substantial Presidentisl re-
coqnition to Groner, Brady and their asso.
cjates. end second, in the appointment OF
Jadse Strother, late Malone delegate 10
the Chicago convention, for the Presidential
Office of postmaster st Warrenton, Va
True. in the case of the appointment at Har"
riaonburp 1t is probable Malone might have
nreferred another candidate, Funkb ouser,
70 the person nominated, but since Shelley
Lewis was in the field and strongly sup
norted by number of anti Mahonetes fcr
the place, the administration appears a.
Last to have compromised with Mahone 10
the one, and TO have given him deVoteu
personal adherent in the other seiection'
Unquestionably the opponents OF Menone
who lately congregated here DO not feel tnat
they have secured any very tirm footnoid at
the White House or that the President IS IN
humor for hearing any further argument
from them about the Virginia sltuatien.
But, most important of oil, ii is reported Oh
apparent reliable authority, that distin
gnlshed member of the cabinet, who has
hitherto been, or has had alleged cause
70 be. irimical to Malone, declared,
In REGARD u ILLS duli A1ooOaSisS
that il looked like au i'll advised effort to
draw the President and his administration
into an unseemly attitude concerning polltl-
cal affairs in Virginia, respecting which
thew had no power or authority, even II
thew had time, to investigate The knotty
problens relating to plans and details OF
marty organic alton as presented by the
kick ers'' in their Ebbitt House council.
This cabinet counsellor also expressed the
belief that General Malone aud his organi
zation represented the great bulk OF repub-
iican voters 10 their State, and that 1t would
be by and through the labor and methods
of the organic alton held in the hands OF Ma
hone, that the party would eucceed, II at
all at the approaching fall election. Wnen
attention was called to the fact that each OF
the leaders In the anti Malone demonetra
ton was an applicant for a federal Office,
and that in fact number of them had al
ready applied and been rejected, the ad-
| wiser of the President quietly replied that
| if there were no Offices co contend about he
snnposed there would be no con
teption in the case. Friends of Ma
hone are jubllsnt over the unfriendiy
attitude which number OF the anti Ma
| honeites have assumed toward the President
| in consequence of their disappointment yes
terday. They seem to consider him as OPP.
| ncsad to their pretensiops and are INCLINED
| to resent the same in g very pronounced
way. Some of them have already spoken OF
| him in terms of decided discourtesy. The
absence of John NJ Lsngston from any act
| i've participation ID the meeting looks, 1t Is
| alleged by some of the knowing ones, like
he. too, is DESTROYS of"peace and harmony"
The Presidents private secretary is said TO
bs warm admirer of the picturesque ll.tle
General. aud it is certainly true that leading
representatives from Indiana express them-
selves in sentiments similar to what is re-
porteG Of Col .Ealford and other Ohio, lliuois
and Indiana republicans. The Secretary Of
| Interior. who is q Missonriap and soldier,
stated to Col. a. w. Jones, lately of Virginia
| but now of the formers State, that be consid-
cred Gen. Malone great statesmen "a wei
as O crest soldier, and that he believed he had
the bulk Of the party fhis State at his Dack.
The more prudent men among the kickers
are doing the best they can to mitigate the
affront put upon them by the President
when he refused to hear what they went to
the White House for the express purpose OF
telling him. They say that be was in bur-
rv to 90 TO New York aud that the place
WAS too public But they went at one
o'clock, what Governor Cameron had to
ssv would not have consumed more than
thirty minutes, and the train did not leave
until half past three; and as regards the
pnblicity, they we're more than anxious that
what thew had to cay should be made as
public ss possible, and certainly Mr.. Hal
ford. when he mnde the appointment for
them, knew that it would rs public. The
kickers derive great store OF comfort from
the fact that their meeting was much larger
than they expected 1t Was indeed large,
and those VINO composed it were we'll dres5.
ed. aud it certainly contained nearly oil the
prominent white republicans In the state.
If they remain constant and have any fol-.
lowing at all there is no doubt that they can
do the General no little harm.
FIX Senator Riddieberger, in g talk with the
GAZETTE's correspondent to Gay, said he
understood that some CT the Mahoneltes
had Construed the fact of his having made
conciliatory speech at the meeting yester-
day "a al indication that he was going over
to Malone but that they never were more
mistaken. Mr. K;ddebefger says nothing
more will be done by the kiekers until the
President shall have returned and afforded
the committee they appointed an opporsu-
nifty to present their side of the case to him.
After that, and when he shall have replied
to the committees statements, they Will
know what to do, and will do it. He says
that be hears that the Mahoneites claim the
appointment of Sullivan ss postmaster at
Harrisonhurg as Malone victory, but that
If not greatly mistaken he. Riddleberger,
had something to do with that appointment.
Most the Virginia democrats who have
been here recently seem to think that Con.
gresham O'Ferrall of the Tin district will
20 into the democratic convention OF his
State to nominate candidate for Governor
with a larger following than any other man
whose name will be before that convention.
If Mr.. O'Ferrall be nominated he Will have
to resign his seat in the House 40 that MS
successor In Congress may be elected at the
November election.
The parties interested in the construction
of the proposed Alexandria and Charleston
Railroad, the old Mineral Railroad, to run
from strasburg to the coal fields of West