Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-31
POLITICAL.
Messrs. Meredith and Moore will
speak at Lincolnia tomorrow night at

MeSSrS. NleTcultu anu -'ioOiS w.
speak at Lincolnia tomorrow night at
7.30.
Mr.. Gilroy, the democratic candidate
for mayor of New York, says Mr..
Cleveland will carry that State by up,
wards of 10000. Mr.. Whitney anu
other democratic leaders are confident
of Mr.. Clcveland's election.
Ex-Congressman John 5. Wise spoke
at q republican meeting in Brooklyn
saturday night. he said the men who
are now crying cut against Il force bill
have been making force bills them
selves during the past two years by
stutiing the ballot boxes and corruptlng
elections in the South. MI. WISE has
burned the bridges behind him.
Senator Higgins, chairman of the re-
publican Congressional committee, has
addressed a letter to Mr.. John +. Dez-
endorf, officially recognizing him as
the republican candidate for Congress
in the Second Virginia (Noriolk) dis
trict, as longer delay as to the proper
candidate may endanger republican
success" He calls upon republicans to
support Mr.. Dezendorf's candidacy.
The Irlsh-American democratic club
of Kings county, n. y, held an en-
thusiastic meeting Friday evening at
the Andrew Jackson Club house, in
Brooklyn. Among the speakers was
Mr.. Brinton X. Minor, formerly of this
city. he referred TO Senator Hill rs
the man who had done more for the
democratic party than any other liy-
inc man, and then explained the IN
CAPABILITIES of the tariff bill.
According to the official lists $3.50
citizens can vote in New York city at
the coming election, and in Brooklyn
ISL ,66S names are on the list. The re-
gistration on Saturday made the grand
total in New York OF 10000 over the
figures OF 1883. In Brooklyn the in
crease is 25,474 over the total Of four
wears age. The latest Tammany Hal!
figures on the probable result Of the
voting on November are Democratic
majority in New York county, over
0,000; in Brooklyn, $4,000; Queens
county, 5000.
A dispatch from Washington says
Secretary of State Foster Postmaster
General Wanamaker and Secretary Of
the Interior Noble have made no secret
of their intention to retire from the cab
met March ( next, whether Harrison is
reelected or not Now it is reported
that Secretary of the Navy Tracy is
also preparing to retire to his neglected
law practice Chauncey NJ. Depew is
to be Secretary of State; James 5.
GARRISON, Postmaster-General; and
Stephens B. Elllins Secretary OF the In
terror, according to the republican pol
iticians, in case Harrison is reelected.
Captain Ham Shepperd, secretary of
the Virginia democratic State COM
mittee, says THE condition of our
party is very good. The State is well
organized and full of fight, and the peo-
pie are very earnest and more serious
than have ever seen them in a canvass
since 1888. We will elect eight Con
gressmen certainly, and most probably
ten. We have every reason to con-
graduate ourselves upon the work our
people have done and are still doing
If is kept up the State is safe, and by
a reasonable majority. The tendency
everywhere is to Cleveland, and it will
largely counterfeit any losses by former
democrats voting with the third party"