Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandra Gazet;e-l
WASHINGTON, Oct, D.

dept to an approaching Presidential
election. Al the departments have
furnished campaign orators and from
the Treasury alone no less than fifteen
officials or employees are actively en-
gagged in campaign talk, including Sec
rotary Carlisle and other high officials.
In his speech 70 the new Turkish
minister to-day the President said y
am highly gratifed atthe assurance you
convey 70 me OF the friendly purposes
and motives which inspire your impe-
nal master and which ne has charged
YOU TO express and sub=erve, and l can
cordially promise you al possible CO.
operation and full appreciation OF all
that may BE- done By the Turkish gov
ernment toward the attainment OF OBJ
-cts which l earnestly desire in the
Interest Of continued good will
Senator Faulkner, chairman OF the
democratic congressional committee,
talked more positively this morning
about the result OF the election than ct
any time up to the present. WIN. j..
BRYAN will be the next President 81 the
United States" said he. The infor-
nation that has come 10 Us during the
last week shows that nothing can now
stem the tide that has set in his d..
rection.'
The Virginia democratic association
OF this city has given certificates for
half-fare tickets to about two hundred
voters Of their State sojourning here 20
90 home and register, half OF them 70
Richmond people. or course all Of
them are democratic voters. There
seems to be great deal more interest
manifested by Eirginianz here in the
present campaign than there was in
tnat Of 1S92-the reason being, they
say, the fact that there is no uncertain
" about the democracy OF the man who
now heads their ticket.
Mr.. Douglass.in his speech at the free
silver meeting at Ballston, in AleXaL-
dria county, night before last, in pre-
sentiDg the regrets OF Mr., Edmund
Burke, formerly Commonwealth's At
torney for the county, and until the
present campaign an able and effective
advocate OF the republican party, said
Mr.. Burke instructed him to say that
while business engagements prevented
his attendance, he was with the meet.
ing in spirit, and advised all his repub-
lican friends in the county to vote for
Bryan, and therefore for their own true
interests.
Wrong as it may be for them to do
so, nearly every democrat here to-day
when asked about the egging Secretary
Carlisle received at his home last night,
responded, sit served him right" They
all say ne would not have been inter
rupted if he had declared for McKin-
ley, but his in,putation upon the intel
ligence Of his hearers by advising them
to vote the decoy duck ticket that was
too much for them 10 stand
A democratic lawyer Of this city who
haa been ampaigning in Kentucky
says the talk here about the uncertain
ty of that State is incomprehensible to
him. He says Kentucky will give
forty-fve thousand majority for Bryan,
for the reasons that all the democrats
who refused to go to polls at the last
election, will vote next Tuesday week,
and that thousands OF republicans will
vote the silver ticket, and besides, said
he, for the reason that Mr.. Carlisle is
unpopular in his own district. The
nomination of Breckenridge, too, said
he, by the republicans, will hurt the re-
publican ticket in the State.
Rev. George w. Carter, of Virginia,
formerly secretary for Bruce, the ne
gro ex-senator from Mississippi, and
whose troubles with his church have
been narrated ia the newspapers, is
now in the paid service of Mr.. Hanna,
making speeches for Mckinley in Ohio.
Mr.. Thomas Young, the well-known
manufacturer Of this city, says
that most all the people he talks with
here are for free silver, and that it is
pretty much that way in Prince
Georges and Charles counties, Mary
land.
AT democratic headquarters to-day
it is reported that intelligence from the
West and Northwest is of the most
most favorable character, and that
Bryan's star is evidently in the ascend
ant. That the republicans are ratified.
they say, is made patent by the wild
aud incoherent prophecies they are
making as to the result of the election.
The superintendent of the bureau of
printing and engraving recently issued
an order against the women employees
OF that bureau appearing there in their
abbreviated bicycle skirts, but some of
the pretty ones got around him and
induced him to revoke it.
Elk Congressman Bowen of Virginia,
republican, was at republican head.
quarters here to-day, trying To get pecu-
mary assistance for his party's ticket in
the 9th district of his State, in which be
saya, the contest between Williams,
democrat, and Walker, republican, is
nip and tuck, with odds, he fears, on
tuck.
At labor headquarters here it is said
that with the possible exception of that
of the Carnegie and glass works, the
labor vote of the country will be cast
practically, as a unit for Bryan, and
that such is the opinion of the most re-
liable labor leaders. Persistent efforts
have been made to buy this vote, they
say, but that with few exceptions they
have proved failures.
Maj r o. e. Hine, a prominent repub-
lican of Fairfax county, here to-day,
says be doesn't allow his political feel
ings to runaway with his judgment, and
that while he thinks the democratic
vote in his county may be somewhat
reduced, he is almost certain the county
will go democratic.
MIR. Andrew Lipscomb left here this
evening from Clifton k'orna Nirninia