Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. %.

Correspondence OF Tie Ale1anuIla baHcttc.J
WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
Senator Hill passed through here
this morning on his return to New
York from Lynchburg, where he spoke
last night. While here ne engaged
rooms at the Arlington for next VIII
ter's session of Congress. The Senator
expressed himself as highly gratitied at
the evidence he had experienced OF the
sincere friendship entertained for MN
by Vireinians. He also told some per-
sonal friends that his State is safe iof
Cleveland. and that he will have denl-
ocratic colleague in the next congress.
Among the visitors here To-Day IL
Col. Robert Burke of Staunton, Va
He saws there are few or no third party
neople in his section of Virginia, but
there are some prohibitionists, about
fftv. he thinks. in his county, Augusta,
OF least half of whom were democrats
AT first. He says q good many OF the
democrats in his county who followed
General Malone out of the democratic
plrty have come back to it, and he sees
no reason to doubt that the democratic
IN ajority there will be as large as 1t
ever was. Mr.. Tucker, the democratic
candidate for Congress, he says, will be
reelected without trouble, and, If the
republicans don't vote soiidly for the
the third party's candidate, 10y IN IN
mense majority.
A Norfolk republican, here to-day,
says that Corrigan, the congressional
candidate of the negroes in the Norfolk
district, is West India negro and an
inspector of customs under Collector
CLAY at Newport's News. The impress
sion is that he will be forced to with
draw by the administration, and that
Dezendorf the white republican candi-
date and an opponent OF the Force Dill,
will receive the bulk of the republican
vote. Whether or not, however, the
Bowdcn faction will support him, Is un-
known.
A gentleman here to-day, who was
present at the democratic rally at Lees
burg Yesterday, says Senator Hunton
smoke before, and Major Holmes Con
rad after the barbecue, and that the lat
ter's exposition of the Force bill was
the most effective political speech he
ever heard.
Congressman Meredith of the Alex
andria district is here to-day. He Will
speak at Waterfall tomorrow, at Inn
coma on the 1st proximo and at Farm
well on the 2nd, all in his district. He
saws if the republicans don't vote for
the third party's candidate his majority
will be between four and five thousand.
1t is understood. as previously stated IN
this correspondence, that the names OF
all the third party's congressional can,
didates in Virginia have been printed
on the republican Presidential ticket.
A prominent North Carolina democrat
now here, received a private dispatch
to-day from home stating that ENum,
the third party's candidate for Governor
of that State. stabbed and seriously In
Jared Aycock, a democratic electorate
large in that State. 49,.
4 we'll posted democratic politician
lust from the Pacific slope, at the Capt.
tol to-day, says the democrats have
good ground for hope in California
Oregon and Washington, as the repub'
licans thereof are by no means of one
mind either on the tariff or the Force
bin. and as the democrats and thiro
rartv people will make common cause
against them. He says he would no,
be the least surprised if all of then
should go democratic.