Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Aexandria Gazette.


WASHINGTON. Oct. 20. 1894.
The democratic committee of the Sth
congressional district has been called 10
meet at Alexandria next Monday
a we'll informed and conservative
politician from New York, here to-day,
and one to whom the success OF lam
many is by no means agreeable, says
the withdrawal of Stratus from the
Tammany ticket and the substitution
of Grants, for his name on that tickets
the best thing that possibly could have
happened for Tammany. There was
no enthus asm, he says, for Stratus, but
Grant will rally to the polls every man
who ever voted the Tammany ticket
and Thousands of others who are ap-
posed to the A. P. A., to the mug
wumps, and to those who would re-
strict personal liberty. He says Grant
defeated combined opposition before,
and will do so again. Straus might
have been elected, he says, but Grant
is sure to be.
Elk Congressman Brady, Major Sam
Yost, and some other prominent Vir-
GINA republicans called at republican
headquarters here this morning in the
interest of some of the republican con-
gressional candidates in their State.
They were very reticent about the re-
suit, but it is reported that they were
informed the committee was short OF
funds, most all they had having been
sent North.
DIR. Abbot, president of the Mt.
Vernon railroad, was in his office here
to-day and went over to Alexandria
this evening. Nothing has been deter,
mined upon yet for extending the road
into this city.
The Norfolk Steamboat Company
will sell Virginia voters round trip tick
cts from here to Norfolk and return for
$3.50.
Senator German has returned fron
New York and is making arrangements
for moving his family to this city and
living here this winter. He will not go
to the Pacific slope this winter. he is
having nothing to do with New York
politics, and, so far as those of his own
Slate are concerned, will make one
speech at his own home before the
close of the campaign.
A gentleman interested in New AL
exandria, now here, says that Pennsyl-
vanian who is to establish large saw
mandatory there, will be there next
week to make necessary arrangements.
He also says that large steel works will
be established there in short time.
Factories for the manufacture of furni-
ture, baskets aud filters are already III
operation there.
A republican politician from the first
Virginia district, here to-day, says the
republican Presidential ticket received
majority at the last election in thai
district, and that if Morton, the populisl
congressional candidate shall receive
any votes at all, Mcdonald, the repub-
lican candidate, will be elected.
PEOPLE from the rural districts OF
Virginia who were here to-day say ii
they had never seen newspaper, they
would know an election was approach
ing by the nightly meetings of the ne
groes, which always commence two OF
three weeks before such occasions, and
at which the attendants are taught
what ticket to vote aud how to vote it.
They say that, judging by their nightly
movements, every negro in the State
will be at the polls and vote the repub-
lican ticket two weeks from next Tues
day.
Mrs. Edith T. Balch, of Voorhees,, ILL.,, came
to Washington Thursday for the purpose OF
seeing President Cleveland to secure the set.
Element of her biIthright and million and
a-half dollars which she claimed was due heI
by the government She was arrested fol-
creating disturbance at the White House
and will be sent home by the authorities TIL;
afternoon. Mrs. Ba oh is II years old She
receives large pension from the government
and it is said that she runs away every tine
it is paid. Mrs. Balch lives with her son IL
Illinois.