Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-08
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In discussing the Arkansas election
this morning, Hon. Clark Howell, rep
resentatiye of The democratic national
committee in Washington, said: The
result in Arkansas is a gratifying sur
prise. We had no idea that the MAORI
ty would even approximate the figure
It has reached. We counted on an In
crease over the last democratic MAORI.
ty. bu. would have been perfectly salts.
fed had this years majority reached
Sc. 900, and would have felt that even
that increase was indicative OF the grow
iag silver sentiment in the trana-Missis'
opi States. The fact that the MAORI
ty will reach 5000 emphasizes more
than ever the earnestness OF the masses
of the people in favor of the restoration
ofsilver TO its former coinage conditions,
Arkansas is typical agricultural State,
and the came causes that led TO such
al overwhelming increase in the dem
ocratic majority there will contribute 10
like degree to this years democratic
maicrities in nearly every southern and
far western State, and in the States OF
the middle west. The same conditions
which have impoverished the people OF
Arkansas prevail everywhere else, and
thew will be condemned in Indiana, II.
linois and Michigan just as they have
already been condemned in Arkansas,
Alaba ma and Tennessee. The demo
cratic majority in the recent State cleo
ton in Tennessee was more than 25,-
900 over that of two years ago. In Ar
kansas the same increase is shown,
and at the August election in Alabama
the increase in the democratic majority
was nearly 1900. Here, in three
States, We have an aggregate increase
of about 5000 over the vote OF the
same States two years ago-a signlh.
cant contrast to the Ineagre increase
which the republicans have obtained in
Vermont, which wac attributable en-
tirely to the fact that the democratic
platform in that State did not differ
from that OF the republican platform
on the money question. The returns
from Arkansas are the most significant
development OF the campaign and they
point the way to an overwhelming sill
YER landslide in all of the far western
States and to a tremendous increase in
the democratic majorities in the south
ern and middle western States"
The State Department received a
telegram this morning announcing the
death OF the American consul, John 3.
German, at Matamoras, Mexico. He
b.;lad rom Georgia,
E. W. Draper was appointed post
maater at Godfrey, Culpeper county,
Va, to-day, vice J. A. SoItter, resigned
Mr.. Pat McCaull, republican candi-
date for Congress in the Alexandra
district, was here to-day. He says half
the white people of King George county
and all the negroes are for him. Some
of the former, he says, while not NC
KinIey, are McCaull men. On the con-
trary, Mr.. Johnson, of Culpeper county,
who was at King George Court House
on the same day Mr.. McCaull was,
says all the white people there arc for
free silver, but all the negroes for
gold, and that Ri1ey's naiority in the
district will be five thousand.
Mr.. Thomas l.. Worsley, a well
known citizen and prominent demo
crat of Loudoun county, Virginia, pass
cd through here yesterday evening on
bis way to st. Louis, where he will en-
gage in business.
An intelligent commercial traveller
at the Metropolitan Hotel to-day, who
is Just from trip through the Middle
Western States, says hia employers
nor any other merchants in the
Eastern Northern cities, seem to
have the faintsst idea of the
strength of the free silver feeling in
the West. He says old party lines
have been abolished there, and that the
body of tho people are no longer divid-
ed into democrats and republicans, but
into goldites and silverites, and that
the silver party contains as many re
pubicans as democrats.
General Cox, Secretary of the U. S.
Senate, who is just from his home in
North Carolina, says that while there
may be- some doubt about the State Of
fees there, little or none exists about
the national ticket, az all who favor
free silver will vote 10 that their bal
lots will count that way
Among the thousands of republicans
who will vote the free silver ticket this
year is Mr.. Edmund Burke, formerly Of
tho Alexandria bar, but now prorni-
nent lawyer OF this city. Mr.. Burke
has not left the republican party, but
being convinced of the legality and
equity of the redemption Of the gov
ernment's securities with "coin," &C.
eording TO the contract printed on their
face. be Ia in favor Of the resumption of
silver coinage, in order that that may
be done. Mr.. Burke will be asked by
the national silver committee TO go on
the stump.
A we'll known member of Tammany,
here to-day, says there is no doubt that
the democratic convention OF Ne"
York will declare for the Chicago ticket,
and that the only thing connected with
that declaration that Senator Hill
doesn't like, is that Tammany anticl'
nated him in making it. He says Sen
sstoY Hill is now preparing his speech
to be delivered in the convention, IN
which he will advise the democrats OF
his State to stand by, and never desert
the democratic party. simply because
they do not agree WIZ tne chffepoy
plank in it's platform.
Senator Butler, chairman Of the por'
ulist national committee, said to-day {:
II am not ready to believe that Mr..
watson was correctly quoted as saying
that Bryan would be defeated if Sewall
was not taken down from the ticket.