Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-04
FROM WASHINGTON.
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Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.]
WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.
A report was set ahoat here late this
afternoon to the effect thet more rella-
BILE returns showed that Bryan and not
Mckinley had been elected. 1t was
positively denied at republican and not
credited at democratic headquarters.
At 5:l5 Senator Faulkner Of the dem.
ocratic campaign committee says the
election depends upon the votes OF In
diana, Michigan and Michigan, which
are vet in doubt.
Among those who hold offices OF
emolument in this city solely by means
of the democratic party, who refused to
take the trouble to 60 home yesterday
to vote, were President Cleveland, Sec
retary Olney, Assistant Attorney GeDer-
al Thomas, Assistant Secretaries Rock
hill, Dabney, Doe and Sims, and a
number of bureau chiefs.
The President has commenced the
preparation OF his annual message and
his Secretary says, as has always been
the custom, he will be obliged to deny
himself to the public until it is COM
pleted. The President is engaged on
his Thanksgiving proclamation. which
NAV probably be issued this afternoon
or tomorrow. While there may be nc
direct reference to the election returns
it is regarded as not improbable that
some of the thsnkfulness will have an
indirect leaning that way. 10 point OF
fact il il understood that the President
has postponed to an unusually late date
tie issuance of his annual proclamation
in order that he might first hear from
the people.
Up to o'clock this evening McKin-
lev has 265 electoral votes, including
South Dakota and Delaware. Ken.
lucky is in doubt.
1t is rumored here that Mr.. McKin-
ley will call an extra session of Con-
gress Immediately after his Inaugural
ton to pass bills for the annexation of
Hawaii and for raising the tariff; also
that as he and many of his most ardent
supporters have been free silver men in
the recent past, and only opposed it to
hide their opposition to an income tax,
something may be done in the way of
promoting bimetallism.
There are many democrats here who
say the democratic party is now thing
of the past, ss the result Of yesterdays
election shows that it only exists in the
South, and that even there 1t is 80 d.
vided that it can never be reunited, as
its members who remained true to its
allegiance will never consent TO affiliate
again with those who deserted them in
their hour OF urgent need.
Erginians here to-day say the cry of
fraud has already been raised by the
democrats in their State, and that,
strange az it may seem, it has been
raised even in the Sth district, which no
intelligent republican in the district
ever thought would 60 any other way
than democratic. Mr. Pitcher, member
CT the Virginia legislature from Eau
quier, in that district, who is here to
day, says the democratic majority there
is l,155. Mr.. Ryan, Speaker of the
the Virginia House of Delegates, from
Loudoun county, also in the same dis
trict, says the majority in his county is
about seven hundred. Mr.. Barbour, of
Culpeper county, says it will be nearly
FIVE hundred there, and several from
Prince William county say it will be
from Ave to six hundred there, and
over two hundred in Fairfax, while
Alexandria city goes over five hun
dred. All of these are also in the same
district, and yet it is said here that
Mr.. McCaull, the republican candidate
for Congress in that district, will con-
test the election.
Every body thought that all the re-
publicans in government employ had
already been secured in their positions
by Mr.. Cleveland, but finding out that
there were about two thousand more
in the navy yard who were not so Sc
cured, he at once threw the protection
of the civil service law and rules around
them also, so that they, too, now have
life positions.
Democrats here compliment their
party in Alexandria upon the crafty
ing majority it gave the party's ticket
yesterday, and attribute it in no small
degree to the course of the GAZETTE,
which, though it did not approve all
the planks of the Chicago platform, was
too good democrat to set itself up
against the combined wisdom of its
party, and recommended all democrats
to adopt Mr.. Cleveland's advice in
1892, and abide by the arbitrament of
their national convention.
People from Alexandria county here
to-day say the large republican major
ity in that county was due entirely to
hundreds of negroes from this city who
had no right to vote there, and who
would not have been allowed to vote if
the local officers of that county were
competent and efficient men.
The First National Bank, of Garret, Kan,
capital $4,000, failed to-day The liabili.
ties are 500, 600; assets nominal.
CIVIL SERVICE EXTENDED.-The
President has issued an executive or
der directing that the regulations of
the Navy Department governing the
employment of labor at navy yards