Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-26
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Ale1andria Gazette.
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ten held federal positions, ana IS mold
ing one now, speaking about para
graph in this correspondence a day or
two ago to the effect that an effort was
in progress to have Collector Brady Of
his State removed, said it was true that
such an effort was in progress and had
been for some time, and that it unques-
tionably would be ahard one to accomp-
lish. but not as hard now as ithas been, as
the administration has recently learned
that Mr.. Brady did not do it as much
good at Minneapolis rs it had been led
to believe, and had been informed that
he did nothing to help Mr.. Harrison
with the Virginia delegation to the con-
vention, not calling upon them once
during the whole convention and even
deputisingss General Groner to Go his
duty as distributor of tickets among
them. Then, too, he said, the admin
istration wants the vote of Virginia
next November and thinks there is a
chance of getting it, but it knows or
fears that us long as Brady is
prominent in political affairs there
Malone will either sulk or offer
active opro ition and that as
Brady is not recognized by the Virginia
republicans as their leader, while Ma
hone is, Mr.. Harrison, Secretary Foster
and the other hustlers of the party are
beginning, he thinks, to entertain
the idea that a man more in accord
with Malone as internal rev.
enuc collector for the southern
district of Virginia would help the par
ty great deal more next November
than Mr. Brady for whom some other
place might be made. Continuing, the
republican referred to said the delega-
ton appointed at the recent meeting OF
the State republican committee of Viz
ginia to confer with the national repub-
lican committee would hold that con-
ference in New York next Monday.
The object of the conference, he said, is
to decide upon some plan by which the
largest number of votes can be polled
for the Presidential ticket, and that II
that object can be furthered by uniting
the republican vote with that of the
third party for the latters congressional
candidates, it will be done even though
some republican aspirants for Congress
have to be turned down. In his opinion,
he said. there would not be more than
two republican candidates for Congress
in Virginia, and possibly only one, and
that one in the Petersburg district. In
that district, he said, his idea is that
Gen. Malone will be the candidate, but
that to be 50 Langston must not only
only be promised as good a place,
but must have it in his hand,
as he is not too well dis
posed anyhow, and unless that were
done would make trouble. In the Nor
folk district, he said, if Bowden be
nominated, as will probably be the case
if convention be called, he will GER
tainly be defeated, as he was two years
ago, because by his distribution of the
federal patronage in that district he has
made himself exceedingly unpopular,
and would be opposed by such intluen-
tial republicans as Wise, Libbey, Mar
tin and others, and would undoubtedly
have another republican candidate in
the field against him. He says he at
tended the late republican convention
in the 1st Virginia district, and that the
postponement of nomination means
that none will be made. The two most
prominent names spoken of at the con-
vention were those of Mcdonald and
Bristow, both federal office holders,
though the former, he heard, had been
informed that the administration was
opposed to its office holders seeking
such nominations. The latter, he said,
made no objection to the adjournment
of the convention without making a
nomination.
A New York Tammany democrat in
the city to-day says the anti-snappers
in his State having succeeded in de-
feating the nomination of New York
fayorite for the Presidency, are now
trying to defeat the election of their
own candidate, as they have issued cir
culars impugning the honesty, honor
and good faith of the democratic COM
mittee of the State, and requestinglmen
of their own weak organization to take
charge of the election machinery and
see to it that the vote of the party be
brought out on election day. He says
of course such proceedings are by no
means conducive to the unity of the
party in the State without the vote of
which the democratic nominee can not
be elected.
Among the Virginians who passed
through here to-day was State Senator
Fairfax, of Loudoun county, in his
State. He was just from the southwest
portion of Virginia. He says the demo-
Gratis in all that section are in good con-
dition, and in no dread of loss by reason
of the third party except in Bedford
and Campbell counties, in which the
third party seems to have obtained a
large number of adherents, but that he
thinks when the democrats among them
shall be better informed of the danger
they are running they will come back
to their old fold.
A well known American, long resi-
dent of Central America, here to-day,
says that young Mr.. John Popham, U.
s. commercial agent at Panama, is the
most efficient, most popular and the
most influential American on the 18th
mus, that he is liked by the people
there better than any man who has ever
before filled his place, and that not only
at Panama, but at Colon and along the
whole line between those two cities,
every body knows and every body Is
nroud of him.