Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1891-09-12
FROM WASHINGTON.
Especial Correspondence o. the Alexandria Gazette.
WAsyry7n ron. u. O.. Sept. IL 1891.

Especial Correspondence o. the AtezG''dT'o oHssIe.J
WAsHINeroN. D. O.. Sept. II 1881.
No matter how much the northern repuo-
liosn newspapers may denounoe Gep. GAa-
hone for the selfish course he is DufeOlng Ia
Virginia. that the southern repuolicans SILL
stand by him is made plain by Line fact that
many Of those who are here endorse the
,urse referred TO, and also say that hs
practical railroad man is needed on the ID.
tersts;e commerce commission, anc enoni0
hail from the South, one of the two vacant
nIecss on that commission ought to be hileo
nv a southern republican, and that no sncn
man Ia better fitted for il than the General.
THE other vacant place On the commission,
which belongs TO q democrat, they cay
sbould be tiled by northern member ofth
democratic party.
The following changes 10 the 4th class
postoffioes OF Virginia were made to-day {:
Capon Road Depot, Shenandoah county. FL.
P. Gochenour appointed postmaster vice H.
E. Besanr, resigned; Cleopus, Nensemond
county, E. 8. Norfeet, vice D. B Jonea. re-
sigaed Nester. Carroll county, E. B. jack
son, vice l Nes!er, resigned.
Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms OF the House
Hill is still here. being detained by sickness.
Being asked to-day upon what ground ne
based his previously expressed opinion thet
in his own State Governor Campbell would
be reelected, ne replied upon several but
one was sufficient, and that was that the
prohibition party would receive twenty
thousand votes and the peoples party at
least forty thousand, though he thought 8
great deal more, and that none of those
votes would come from the democratic par
ty, He aleo said the Sherman and Foraker
men were at each others threats there, and
were seeking trades, and so were the mem
bers of the Farmers Alliance, who also
want the next Senator. When asked about
the reported detection among the Cincinnati
democracy, he said that for every vote
Campbell lost among the democratic boot
legs 10 Cincinnati, he would gain Two among
the honest republicans In other parts OF the
Stete.
John III. Langston, the negro ex-CoDgress-
! man from the Petersburg district, in Virgin
la, called at the State Department to-day to
present John &. Hayes, q lawyer OF his race
from Richmond, who Is an applicant for the
position of q. g. Minister to Liberia. He
says Hayes is thoroughly competent for the
place. and is recommended by General Ma
hone and many other prominent Virginiane.
They we're received very kindly By Assist
ant Secretary Wharton, who said there were
about i've hundred applicants for the place,
and that he did not think It would be flied
before the return of Secretary Blaine, which
would be about the first proximo, though
the President, who would return next weeE,
might fill 1t at an earlier date. When
Laugston was ask II Fred Douglass
was taking sny part ia the matter, he replied
that he ui9n'5 know him and had no $3.50
c!etes smong those who did that ne re-
spected white gentlemen and only had social
relations with reputable and respectable
people of his own Ygce, snd that he neither
knew nor cared about any such characters Sc
| Douglass.
The Commissioners of the District Of Co.
umbs have determined to cue the sureties
| of Draney, the ex-gsrosge collector, fof
absr d onipg bis contract. and will advertise
for bids to do that work during the remand
or OF the term specified in his contract.
Capillary, an Alexandria county democrat, hero
to-day says that at the district democratic meetings
hold in that county last Thursday night to elect
county committee the issue was between the
regular true-blue democrats and those who had
| jumped tie regular democratic ticket last fall,
and that the former swept the deck, electing i've
| of the six committeeman. He says MIR. Doug lass,
father of the candidate for the legislative nomina
| tion win probably be chairman Of the committee.
| A team from the Brooklyn regiment of the Ms
| tional Guard contended with one from tho voun-
teer troops OF this city this evening in shooting
| match on the Arsenal grounds.