Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-10-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
(spacsl Correspondence OF the Alexe. GizErrsl
WASHINGTON. D. c.. Oct. %, 1889.


Especial Correspondence o! the Alexs. Gizrrrsl
WAsH1NaroN, D. c.. Oct. %. 1889.
Senator Barbour of Virginia is in the city
to day. He says the reported interview
with him published In the New York World
ofyssterday to the effect that the democratic
prospect in Virginia is uufavorabIe. is Ut
terly and entirely incorrect, and thst be
nsVer thought, let alone said, any thing that
warranted IL or from which suoh az idea as
that referred, could have been legitimately
conceived. On the contrary, he says he has
reliable information from every county and
city in the State, and knows that the de-
mocracy there was never before In better
condition. He says that while the demo-
Gratis of Virginia got no money from the ma.
tioDal democratic committee, they got from
other sources more than they ever had be
fore; that they are better equipped
and better organized than they ever
have been in any previous campaign,
and that he was never more con-
fident of victory than at present. He says
Gen. Malone has used great deal ofmoney
and will probably use great deal more be
tween now and election day, and that be
may possibly buy some votes with 1t, out
that while he, Barbour, Is certain there are
not five thousand white Virginians who
have 80 little self respect as to sell
their votes, be has, in his estimates,
made allowance for that number, and
that even should General Malone bny
that many, the democratic ticket will be
elected by q decisive majority. Mr.. Bar.
bour says collections were being made for
General Mahone's campaign fund in
Philadelphia go late as last week by
prominent high tariff men In that
city. Hs says ex Senator Lewis, of
Virginia, republican, now in this city, tells
him the majority against Mahonei 10 his sec
ton of the State will be large. and that the
democrats will elect their legislative tcketin
bis county, Rockingham-a gain. he says
Mr. Lewis Mckenzie of Alexandria, 81 prom.
inent republican, tolls him Malone will be
defeated by twenty thousand majority. Mr..
Barbour says the arrest of the democratic
Judges of election in Charlotte county was
great outrage, and that the State democratic
committee will make it their especial bust.
ness to defend them and all other judges,
and other election officers, and every other
Virginia democrat whom Gen. Malone and
his agents may attempt to intinidate either
before or at the election. Mr.. Barbour says
large majority of the people of Virginia
are opposed to Gen. Malone, aud that this
is no time for them to be deprived by any
means whatever OF the rights of that major
ity, and that he has no fears that they will
allow themselves to be.
Congressman Mills of Texas, the author
of the Mills bill, was at the Capitol to-day.
He takes great interest in the result of the
coming election in Virginia and thinks that
break there would de disastrous to the
whole South. Mr.. Mills takes gloomy but
rational view OF the future condition of the
South. He thinks the coming republican
Congress will pass national election law
establishing republican election returning
boards in every city and county in the South,
appointed for life by the present republican
administration, and thereby secure posses.
sion ofhis section; that consequently theSouth
will be forever under negro domination, and
that the necessary consequence viii be the
ruin of all the material interests of that Sec
ton, and that when that condition shall be
reached end the North suffer from its ef-
fects, as it must do, the people of the latter
section will, but hardly before, realize the
great mistake they have made, as 1t is the
South which now supplies the country with
by far the larger part ofits exports. MIR. Mills
denies the newspaper report that he said
Mr.. Cleveland would be the democratic can.
didate for President at the next election,
and thinks 1t entirly TOO early to be making
Presidential representations for 1892.
General Malone arrived here yesterday,
and last night had conference with sew
eral of his Iieuteneuts who met him here
by previous appointments. Among them
were Judge Perkins of Kansas, and Messrs.
Edmund Burke aud D. A. Windsor of Alex
andra, Wsddil of Richmond, Brown Allen
of Staunton, and others. What he told them
is unknown, but to other people he seemed
to be in his usual spirits Il is reported that
the consultation was in reference to the
preparation of imaginary reasons to be as
signed IS the cause for his anticipated de
feat.
In talking to-day about what Congress-
man Brown, of Indiana, said to the GA.
zETTE's correspondent some days ago, to
the effect that General Joe Johnston had
told him that General Malone was one of
the pluckiest officers in his command. Gen.
eral Johnston said he could not con.
ceive how Mr.. Brown could have ever got
such an idea in his mind. In the fret place,
the General said, General Malone was not
In his command more than three days, and
in the second, that even in that short time
he misbehaved himself.
Up to o'clock this afternoon the father of the
missing girl Bolle Brown had heard nothing
sbout her. On Saturday last he thought he had
clew to her whereabouts, and hoped to have heard
from her yesterday. That hope is now dispelled
and he knows no moro about her than he did the
day she left He was induced to think she had
gone to Norfolk, but now has no reason to believe
the strange girl seen there was his daughter.