Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-16
FknNI WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandra Gazette

WASHINGTON, Oct. l6.
The Postoffice Department has de-
fined the relations between public roads
and the postal service thereon 1t holds
that these roads are within the juris-
dction OF State and local authorities
and where these authorities vacate or
permit the feucing in OF road in use
as post route, thereby preventing the
performance Of postal service, the dis.
continuance OF such service is the
only alternative of the depart
ment. For any Increased expense
for carrying mail on that route By
reason OF such discontinuance no addi-
,ional pay can be allowed the mail
contractor. Mail carries Lave no
authority TO trespass upon private
property and the postal laws give them
no special rights or privileges as re-
CARDS the use Of public roads. There is
no law eXempting mail carriers from
the payment OF toll or ferriage as many
seem TO suppose is the case.
II is understood mere that Mr.. Han
mas money, to be used in the South for
the purpose Of buying votes for Mr..
Mckinley, was sent out by checks from
New York last right. That for Vir-
GINA has already reached some parts Of
that State, and tie negroes, who supply
the only real strength the republicans
have there, should be OH hand early to
get theirs, a. otherwise, it is said here,
that portion OF it that may get out OF
the hands Of those 10 whom it is first
sent, will fall to the snare OF the gold
boilers and be lost TO them world with
out end intelligence from Virginia
leads the Bryan men here to believe
I that there will be very few votes in that
State cast for Palmer, and that practi-
cally all those who have left the demo-
cratic party will vote the straight re-
publican ticket, for congressman as well
az President.
Common talk here is to the effect
that though several other prominent
people have profited by the gold bond
isaues, Secretary Carlisle never reaped a
cents benefit from them, and is as poor
now as he was when, to his own great
injury, he resigned is seat in the Senate
to take service uader Mr.. Cleveland.
Others have got-1 rich by means Of
the ad1ninistratio ., but poor Mr.. Carlisle
is as poor as ever in worldly goods, and
has be ruined politically.
A Philadelphia republican here to-
day says that every thing on the sur
face, both in his city and New York, ia
for Mckinley, but that while the shal-
lows murmur the depths are still, and
that the depths are what he fears.
Congressman Tucker OF Virginia was
here yesterday. He says Virginia,
about which he knows, is all right, but
that az to the result Of the general
election, about which he does not
know, he can, Of course, say nothing.
From source high up liz labor cir
clcs it is learned that fully eighty per
cent. OF the members Of all the various
workingmens associations in the coun.
try will cast their ballots for Bryan,
though many OF them will make no
parade Of doing 50.
AT this morning session of the Union
Veteran Legion, resolutions were pass
cd advocating the election Of Mckinley
and Hobart. While the utmost ret
cence about discussing the matter is ex
hibited by the delegates to the encamp-
nent, it is said that there was little de-
bate on the subject, and that the reso-
lutions were adopted practically with
out opposition. The morning was con-
sumed in action upon the annual re-
ports and the installation of officers. 1t
is generally understood that all the or
CARNATIONS Of ex-federal soldiers will
vote solidly for Mckinley.