Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1889-04-13
From Washington.
special Correspondence Of The Ale1s. GAZETTE ]
WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is, 1889

Special Correspondence Of the Ale1s. GAzxrrSl
WASHINGTON, D. c., April Is, 1889.
Ex-congressmsn Hooper and ex-marshal
Watts are among the latest republican ar
rivals from Virginia. Ex.congressman Bow
en- is expected to-day. Mr.. Hooper bad an
Interview with Postmaster General Wanna.
maker and with Assistant Postmaster Gen
eraI Clarkson this morning, both of whom
told him there would be no more changes in
the poatollices ia his State until representa-
tives of all the republican factions there
shall have been heard and their state
ments duly considered, so that as few mis-
takes as possible would be made. Mr.
Hooper SAYS he thinks the case of Langston
vs.. Venable for the seat in Congress from
his district, will be decided in favor of the
latter upon the evidence of the white repub-
licans OF that district who at the election
were compelled, by the behavior Of the ne
proes, to vote with the other white people
OF the district. Re says the enmity of the
negroes for their white neighbors developed
at the election was SO great as to be positive
ly alarming that at first it was only mani
tested towards white republicans, but that
it soon extended go as to make oil the white
people there its objects. He says The de-
feat of Laneston was of great benefit TO
the republican party OF the State, rs,
had he been elected there would have
been negro candidates fer Congress in all
the districts next year, and all the
white men in the party been driven out OF
it. There will be more trouble, he saya, In
bis district az Langston has already an.
nounced himself as candidate for Congress
at the next election, and is keeping up his
negro Organization. He says that LangsioO,
in his speeches during the late campaign,
had not single good word to say OF the
white republicans OF the State, but said they
were apostates for the price of their aposta
cy, and had only left the democratic party
for office, which their known bad character
prevented them from OBTAINING in that party.
MIR. II 1oper says if the negroes be allowed
to manage the republican party in his State,
the white men 10 the party would have to
We under their dic;ation, and ihst
no southern white man could stand
that. He is q republican and viii
remain one as long as the repubii
car party in his State shall continue 10 be
controlled by white men, but no longer
MIR. Hooper says General Malone will re
main here some time longer, and expects to
be consulted by the President on the sub
lect OF the distribution Of the federal patron
age in Virginia.
| Among the arrivals at the Metropolitan
| Hotel to dsy we're General j. A. Walker,
Major ]. c. Green, W. II. Boiling, j..
Graham, and W. A. Hudson, of Virginia,
who are interested in large land company
at Florence, Alabama. General Walker is
on his way to New York on business, and
says be is cut of politics, but that he endoI-
ses the movement to form protective
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| i've views; that the South is solid on sec
| tional ideas and issues that q protective
policv is the policy for the South, and that
| if seotionalism were dead he believes seven
or eight southern States would be protect
i've States.
Col. Canaday sergeant at arms of the
Senate, had not returned to the city, or
rather, was not at his Office in the Ca itol +,
said they did not know when he would re-
turn.
M. James A. Frazier is still here, push
ing his application for collector OF internal
revenue for The Lynnhburg district. Mr..
Frazier is The man who said tue only quail
ficatiuns required for q judgeship in Virginia
were that the applicant should have oncs in
his life opened law book aud be q re-
adiuster. He is now an anti Mahcnete.
He recently asked Mr. !, 3. Wilcox 10 en-
dorse his application, but was refused upon
the ground that he had thrown of his al
legiance TO his old leader.
General Bussey, the new Assistant Secre-
tary of the Interior, yesterday decided that
the widow of soldier who WAS drowned
while bathing during the war is entitled to
pension. A day or two before he decided
that man who WAS Injured by q fall Of
Ieats in circus is entitled tos pension. The
General evidently believes that the surplus
in the Treasury should be reduced.
Mr.. Game, the congressional delegate from
Ufah, has been TO see the President OF the
subject of the appointment OF the federal
officers in that Territory, and says he be-
ieves MIR. Harrison is disposed TO please
the majority Of the people of that
Territory and do in the matter referred
to what he thinks is be t for them.
He says the officers the people are most in
teresled in are the members of the Utah
commission and the Marshal. % their res-
tions with the people are close. He says
the people would rather have officers from
outside tho Territory appointed, as they
would be more likely to be unparalleled
and to Judge affairs there fairly.
The negroes OF this city are making great
preparations for their celebration of the an
niversafv of the emancipation proclamation
on Tuesday. Oae of the features of the pa
ride will be a woman's organization. The
President will review the procession from
the portico of the White House.
VIRGINIA NEWS