Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-08-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, August 80.


A man ofaffairs, of strong republican
proclivities, here to-day from Bar Har-
bor, says Mr. Blaine, SO far as the pub
lie is concerned, is no more than dead
man, and that nobody at Bar Harbor
expects that he will take any part in
the coming election. Somebody, he
says, may write him letter asking his
views on the subject of that election,
and somebody else may answer that
letter for him and have it published,
but that Mr.. Blaine is not thinking of
elections, and hardly Of anything else.
He is driven out occasionally, but only
near the close of the day, and then on
the most unfrcquented streets and
roads. He says the republicans have
made an active canvass of every county
in Maine, and will probably elect all
their congressional candidates next
month with the usual majority, and
also the republican Presidential elector-
al ticket next November, but that there
is no enthusiasm there for Mr.. Harri-
son, and that if he could be defeated
without the necessary result of demo-
cratic victory, Maine would give him
the first shot.
A Tammany democrat here to-day
says that Mr.. Whitney and the other
wiser aud truer democratic leaders in
New York are trying TO keep the anti
snappers quiet, but are having great
difficulty in doing so. The anti-snap-
pers, he says, have greatly irritated the
regular democratic organization of the
State by their open and implied i'm
putations upon its honesty and good
faith, and by their persistent assaults
upon the favorite of that organization,
Senator Hill, and that, under the Cir
cumstances,a desire to retaliate, if noul-
ished by some of its members, would not
be at all unnatural. He says the
party is not in good shape there now,
but that he hopes its condition will be
improved by the day of election. He
also says that Senator Brice, who was
chairman of the last national democrat
ic committee, when he called upon MIR.
Cleveland recently, tried to talk with
him about politics and party manage
ment, but that the nominee was coldly
irresponsible and led the conversation
10 other subjects.
Among the arrivals here to-day is
Congressman Wise of the Richmond
district, Virginia. He says there are
some third party men in his district and
that their candidate for Congress will
get some of the republican votes there,
but he doesn't think the democrats are
in any danger of losing the district, and
that he will be reelected by the usual
democratic majority. He also thinks
the people of his State have too much
concern about their own interests to
permit them by lukewarmness to risk
the danger of Harrison's reelection by
failing to carry their own State next
November.
Col. Ike Hill of Ohio, assistant SER
geant-at-arms of the House, says the
democrats Of his State are in as good
condition now as they have been atany
time during the last seven or eight
years, if not better. He says the re-
publican, is not now the majority party
in Ohio, and has not been for some
years. 1t has plurality, but not a ma
jority of the voters. The democrats,
he says, if they are enthusiastic, and
have an object in being so, can carry
the State next November.
The Virginia Democratic Association
of this city, of which Mr.. Biscoe is presi-
dent, will meet at the Metropolitan
Hotel next Friday night for the pur-
pose of recognizing and getting into
condition for active and effective ser
vice for the comingIelection, when they
will be called upon to send many Vir-
ginia democratic voter home to cast
a ballot for low tariff and against the
Force bill.