Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-10-27

w ASHlNblONi ONs'
The fact that Senator Quay has taken
charge of the republican campaign, and
practically set Mr.. Carter aside, Is con-
sidered by the democratic; poii,iciails
here to indicate not only that the re-
Dublicans are in desperate straits, pul
also the necessity ON the part En-, oi ont
democrats OF being even more uiliSeiI
and more in earnest than ever, lor tne
iupior Pennsylvania Senator Is worthy
}be steel of the most crafty men in the
democratic party, and what he doesn I
know about election cheating isn't
worth knowing.
Mr.. T. b. Davis, the uncle OF Secre-
tary Elkins's wife, came here yester,
day on the train with Mr.. Elkins, and
saws the Secretary is perfectly comb
dent that West Virginia will cast her
electoral vote for Mr.. Harrison. Mr..
Davis is strong democrat, and he says
he is alarmed about the condition OF
West Virginia. On the contrary, Col.
Black, Pennsylvania republican, VINO
settled in Jefferson county, West Nir-
ginia. since the war, and who will vote
for Mr.. Harrison, says the talk about
West Virginia going republican Is all
bosh; that it is safe as for the democrats
as any other southern State, and that
his county will increase its democratic
majority by at least five hundred votes
Sheriff Veitch of Alexandria county,
Virginia, is here to-day. He says there
are no third party men in his county,
and that some of the men who have
left the democratic party in recent
wears have now come back to it, but
that every negro in the county except
one will vote the republican President
ial ticket. That exception, he says, is
Nelson Wallace, who received pen
sion and large arrearage during Mr..
Cleveland's administration.
1t is said here that Mr.. Reid made a
good thing of it by resigning the French
mission and coming back to this coun-
try to run for the Vice Presidency, as
he has already sent to the republican
campaign committee a bill amounting
to over seventy thousand dollars for adj
vertising in his paper, The New York
Tribune.
Ex-detective McElfresh of this city,
whose collision with the thieves that
infested Washington nine or ten years
no O was detett ID and punished by his ar
rest, trial-an removal, is now one OF
Dave" Martins election workers" in
New York.
1t is reported here that negroes from
the South are being colonized bNthe
hundred in the mining districts ofWest
Virginia.
People from Norfolk. here to-day
say that congressman Dezendorf has
announced himself as the republican
candidate for Congress in that district
and that probably most of the republi'
cans there will support him.
The Virginia democratic association
of this city have made arrangements
with the railroad companies here by
which they can buy railroad tickets fol
half fare, and will supply democrats ell
titled to vote in Virginia with them
| free of cost.
The administration is profess edly sup
porting the civil service law, but all the
same political assessments were never
more onerous or more vigorously eX
acted than now. The lowest paid gov
crnment employee is made to pay two
per cent. of what he receives, and the
higher, proportionately more.
The attendance at the races to-day
was fair. First race. purse $500. Maid,
ems two-year-old. Five fyrlongs. May
Lose won, Ingot second, Fancy Coll
third. Time LOS.