Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-04
FROM WASHINGTON.

correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.
1t is rumorcd to-day that another
daily newspaper will soon be started
here with 100000 to back it, and that
Senator Stanford of California will be
interested in its support. Large as this
city is, it now has only two daily news
paper, one morning and one evening,
both nominally independent, but both
with strong republican leanings, as is
natural, as the proprietors Of both are
republicans.
A Virginia friend ofGeneral Malone,
now here, says the democratic majority
in Virginia next Tuesday will be large,
M neither the General nor Mr.. Brady,
the leaders of the opposing republican
factions i'll that State, are e1ertlng
themselves to get out the republican
vote. They are both allronted at the
treatment they have received at the
White House, and resent it by remain
ing quiescent. Then, too, he said, there
is no money III the campaign in Nir-
ginia, and it is well-known that money
is an essential in republican campaigns
in the South.
An Alexandria county democrat here
to-day was laughing ut card he saw
in u morning paper of this city com
planning of the lack of effort to enthuse
the republicans of his county at this
election, signed by Austin Syphax. He
says Syphax is an uneducated and by
no means an intelligent negro, and i'm
provident, and that he misses the
drinks aud pennies that ut previous
elections he received from the members
of both the political parties in the coun-
ty. IIe says he didn't know news
papers were so sullible.
MIR. Lawrence Gardiner, in charge Of
the democratic campaign committee,
returned this morning from New York,
where he has been in conference with
the national democratic committee. He
says that every member of the latter
committee is perfectly assured of the
election of Cleveland. and that arrange
ments have been made by which the eff
fective use of the millions the republic
cans have collected, with which to buy
the election, will be prevented. He
says there is no fear of either New
York, Indiana or New Jersey, and that
though the republicans have spent an
immenss sum in Connecticut, the best
posted democrats in that State say it
will be found in the democratic column
on the day after the election. Illinois
Iowa and Wisconsin, he says, are con-
sidered doubtful, with chances in favor
of the democrats, as the Lutherans, who
were driven out of the republican party
bv State school laws. and the Ger
mans, by State sumptuary laws, have
not gone back to it, and can not be in
duced to do so. Mr. Gardiner says the
republicans made great ado about a
$40, 900 bet on Harrison that was offer
ed at the New York Stock Exchange,
without takers; but without reason,
from the fact that tho offer was not
made until near the close of business
hours, and that though offers were
made to cover $4,000 ut once, they
were refused, upon the ground that the
bet must be for the whole amount, and
that early next morning, when demo-
Gratis were grabbing for it, the proposed
bet was withdrawn. Mr.. Gardiner
says he has been in politics for many
years, but he never felt SO confident of
success rs he does now.
Some of the Virginians here fear that
owing to the early hour at which the
morning train on the Leesburg branch
of the Richmond and Danville r. X.
leaves Round Hill, many democrats
living, along the upper part of that
branch, but engaged in business here,
will be unable to vote on election dav.
rs the polls do not open until sunrise.
The Virginia democratic association of
this city has been trying for some DAYS
to get the railroad company to make
arrangements for the accommodation of
the voters referred to, but rs yet with
out effect.
Col. Manning, who died here sudden
ly yesterday, was the first commander
of Confederate troops other than Yir-
ginians sent to Fredericksburg during
the war. He was a Mississippian but
commanded an Arkansas regiment.
After the war he represented Missis-
sipDi in Congress.