Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1895-09-03

not for Mckinley for President and the
chances are fully 16 to / that Carson
will be found upholding with voice and
vote the gold standard of the opulent
East. The delegates will be instructed
to demand the conventions endorse
ment of a new and popular form OF
government for the District with free
and unlimited suffrage for all. Should
the change occur Carson would almost
certainly be the DISTRICTS first repre-
sentatiysin Congress.
Inquirers for Virginia news are
beginning to note the fact that with
scarcely an exception the opinion is
expressed by every one from that State
that in the approaching or expected
contest between Senator Daniel and
Gov. O'Ferrall for the Senatorship the
Senator will without doubt distance
the Governor, and indeed will easily
ssspread-eagle" any field of contestants
that can be brought against him. To-
day a politician of the Valley put his
opinion in very picturesque language.
He said the physical impossibility OF
O'Ferrall beating John Daniel was more
manifest than that of a camel passing
through a needless eye. In connection
with this it may be stated that among
the applicants who were examined
the other day for statistician OF the
Agricultural Department was a Mr..
Preston of Montgomery county, a mem
Der of the we'll known Preston and
Peyton families of the southwest. He
said he was a sgold bug" but was for
Daniel silver, or nc silver. BE said If
"John" should hang himself with a
silver rope, the people would re-elect
him in whatever dead, half dead or
questionable shape he should choose to
come in. Mr.. Preston's position is in
no questionable shape however.
Col. Ike Hill, of Ohio, the great po-
litical prognosticator of the wild west,
has Just returned to this city from an
extended tour over the political field.
His predictions are enthusiastic and in
resembling harmony with that inspir-
ing strain of the Ohio democracy, "The
Campbells are Coming" Keep your
eve on Campbell, the Colonel says, first
for Governor of Ohio, and second for
the nomination of the democratic party
for the next presidency. And such
talk, however absurd it may appear to
some minds, may yet prove to be much
more than the vaporings of a braggart
or blatherskite. Campbell was and is
by universal consent the strongest man
in his party for the governorship. In
the extremity of the situation all eyes
turned to him and by main strength his
party gagged and h%andcuffed him into
the nomination. His conservative and
somewhat intermediate position on the
silver question secures him against di-
vision within his own ranks. On the
other hand, the republicans are un-
doubtedly %disunited, their Foraker and
Mckinley wings refusing to fight or hy
together. Ohio, it must be remem-
bered, is a State of great political sur
prises. In many an election the repub-
iicans have had to fight as if for their
very lives to hold it, and even MIR.
Cleveland, or rather some of the cleo
tors on the last democratic presidential
ticket were elected in that State by
scant maiorities. The defeat of the re-
publicans would be an ELL wind" to
Mckinley but would blow great good
to Allison, Foraker, Reed and others Of
his presidential rivals. Senator Hill,
of New York, is on record as declaring
that he favors a Western man for the
next presidential nomination. II
Campbell should carry Ohio who
could doubt the invincible availability
of the man for the nomination, or his
probable election to the presidency
from a democratic point of view !? Per-
haps it would be well for the young and
hopeful democrats of Virginia to adopt
the suggestion of keeping an eye on
Campbell. he is a young man himself,
of great ardor, energy and magnetism,
and comes from the right section of the
country for Southern support.
Secretary Carlisle, owing to the alb
sence of his assistant secretaries, on
vacation, finds that he will not be able
to attend the sound money convention
called to meet at Lincoln, Nebraska,
next Thursday. In lieu of the address
which he had been asked to deliver for
the occasion he is now writing a letter
in which he gives expression to his
views on the sound money question.
When the able Solicitor General of
the United States. Holmes Conrad, of
Virginia, was asked by an admiring
friend a short time ago how he liked
his Office, the solicitor general loosely
replied that the Office was all right,
salary satisfactory, duties agreeable,
&c., but that it could be very much
improved by making it more perma-
nent. Its liability to change hands, he
said, was the only objection he knew
of. And now at this early day it seems
ex.Attorney General Frank Blair, of
Virginia, is again loading up his gun
for a shot at this Office. He is said to
have so stated to a friend when in this
city q short while ago. Perhaps no
more determined struggle was ever
made for any Office under any admins
tration than Attorney Blair made for
the solicitor generalship under Har-
rison. He spent weeks in procuring
endorsement and completing his papers
for presentation to the President. By
every method possible to be devised
and through every form of influence to
be had within or without his State did
he endeavor to- advance and strengthen
his claims. Harrison was said to have
been astonished and by no means favor
ably impressed with the strenuous eff
forts used to influence this appoint
ment. The re election Of the ex-Presi-