Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1890-10-28

the partisan and auti-southern legislation of
the present republican Congress have united
all the white people OF their State, and that
that the democratic maj ,rity there next
Tuesday will be fifty thousand. They cay
eli the districts 10 the State except one will
aend democrats to Congress-. and that though
that one has large negro nsj ority it would
have done SO TOO if the democrats had nomi-
rsted candidate.
Work at the rooms OF the republican con-
oressiorsl cam 2aign committee 10 this city
is practically closed. The feeling of the peo
pie still seen there is by no mesns as hope.
fll a. it was soon after the Maine election,
and the fear is expressed there that both Mr..
Mckinley and fou -uontEed Cannon may be
defeated.
Genera! GriersoT, In command of the De-
partuent OF Arizona, In his annual report,
recommends m!lder and more conciiatory
course toward tus Iodaos in his depart
Dent.
The Tressu79 Department to-day decided
that under the new tariff bill the man
who breaks his fiddle bow, and has to buy
another one, must pay, in addition to its
legitimate cos', tsrf tax OF % per cent.
Among the strangers in the u s Supreme
c urt to-day wis the ex-Attorney General OF
Virgins, MIR. Ayers. Mr.. Ayers is from the
| 8 congressional district oil his State. be
spys be has no doubt whatever oil the re-
| election OF Mr. Buchanan, the democratic
copgres man il that di ITCHY not les5 thsn
1900 majority. but that be never saw less IL
tefest manifested ct any previous elecslon.
He saws that though Mr.. Mile, the repub l.
can candidate, Is running as protective
tariff man, he employs cheap Italian and
Hungarian labor in hs iron and coal works,
GO The exclusion of Virginia labor, and that
Mr.. Buchanan plays the mes effective tuoe5
upon hat tarp.
Ez-President Cleveland did not return TO
New York lest night as stated in some oil
the newspapers. He came to the Capitol
this morning, escorted By his friend and ap-
pointee ex-Mart bal Wilson, and was in the
| q s Supreme Court room listening to the
arguments OF the other counsel in the case
10 which be is employed, Messrs. Hunt and
S.mmes AS ii was not generally known be
was there the court room was not crowded.
Copgres su Gu Crisp and McMillin were
| here last night ou their way nome from New
| York. TEe2 wero both in eXcsllant spirits
in respect of the result of the approaching
electioo. and said at democratic headqnar-
ters in Nav York il was confidently expect
I'd that the democrats would have decisive
aj1riiy in the lower branch OF the next
| Congress
l 10 reported here that the democratic
and the anti-Delemater republican man
| ayers Of Pennsylvania have made arrange
| msnts for srfes ing all the many Pennsyl-
vanians who bsgins lost their residence in
their OVID State by living In his city may GO
back to Psunsv lvanis to vote next Tuesday.
| Mr.. B!scoe, chairman of the Virginia democrat
ic ASSOCIATION of this city, says that association
will hold 10 ,eting next Thursday night and de-
| termine upon Their arrangements for sending
dem Gratis now here who are entitled to vote in
| Vlrsiuis, t. that State in time to vote at next
| Tuesday % election.
The following changes in the elss' possoe-
fees OF vi -ginia were made to-day: Oremona,
Cumberland county, Mrs. NJ. a. Kirby appointed
postmaster, vice 5. NJ. Hardy, resigned; Ham
burgh, Shenandoah county Mira. 81. Davis, vice
C. L. Bowman, resanod; Htathsviile, NorIhum-
berlsnd county, ] B. sanford vice A. W. Kinlz,
resigned; Rolcomb's Rock, Bedford county, N. nj
Steptoe vice s. X timely, resigned snowvitle Pu'
l-ski county, ". J. Showalter, vice l.. j. ShoWa'-
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