Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-01-04
EIGHTH DISTRICT IN CONGRESS.
The Loudoum Enterprise, published IN
Hamilton, Va, thus speaks of Judge
McCabe's candidacy:

The Loudoun Enterprise, publlshea IN
Hamilton, Va, thus speaks of Judge
McCabe's candidacy:
elsewhere in to-day's issue of the Enter
prise will be found card from Judge >. 3.
McCabe in reply to an interrogatory iron tne
Fredericksburg Free Lance, in which yielding
to the solicitations of leading citizens from
every section of this county, he announces
himself candidate for Congress from tne
Eighth District. Similar queries addressed 70
other prominent gentlemen OF the county
have failed to disclose the information that
Judge McCabe will have any opposition SO far
% this county is concerned. And this Is so
manifestly as it should be that we cannot re-
fraiu from giving vent to our qualification.
That Loudoun, after furnishing the MAJOR
mart of the democratic majority and shlVerlng
ont in the cold for more than half century
should now be accorded the honor OF repre-
sentiug the Eighth District in Congress IS
very generally conceded. In our humDie
Judgment, based upon no little experience
with conventions. tie chief cause of her faii-
ure heretofore to gain that to which sne Is
by every principle of right and justice entitleG'
has been the divided. disengenuous, hall
hearted support she has given her sons. IL
seems to US we now have splendid oppo,-
tunty to avoid repetition OF our OF lnsoe
blunders. Let us avail ourselves OF IL anu
with that unanimity and concert OF actio9
which will alone carry force AID strength ana
be effective. concentrate all our best efforts
upon our gifted young countryman who Is
ouiet able to champion and defend the prln.
ciples of our party and in every respect
worthily represent the intelligent constituency
of the Eighth Congressional District"
The Wastingtonian published in Lees
burg, Va, thus speaks;
Judge McCabe has announced himself a
candidate, from this county, and as no one
else has his claim should have the consldera
ton of the party, and we should look to the
attainment of unity and harmony among our
selves, if We expect to succeed:
Judge McCabe is young man OF line talent,
of commanding aud popular speaking apillty,
and the large vote he received In this county,
when candidate before, shows that he mas a
strong hold on the populsr sentiment OF inc
party in Loudoun, and by proper manage
ment it can be ascertained whether ne IS the
choice of the party for this nomination"
The Mirror, the other democratic
paper published in Loudoun, in its
issue of this week says:
"LUud0unS services W tne party III u.S
past and her various other claims for this
distinction are, or ought to be, too vel! known
to the people of this district to need any elab-
Grafton at this time from us.
"Already one her IONS, ex-Judge J. B. Nc
Cabe, of this town, has announced himself as
candidate for the position and we can say
that we regard him as worthy aud well quail.
fed for the honor he seeks. The people of
this county have more than once endorsed him
at the polls, and in the position to which they
elected him, that of Commemorative At
torney, he has discharged his duties capably
and faithfully and with, we believe, general
satisfaction to his fellow-citizeps His opin-
ions on public questions are generally known
and he has the ability to express and defend
them forcibly and well upon the hastings and
elsewhere, snd as representative he would
by no means BIO the least creditable or useful
to his constituency of any of those who have
held the position in former years. This much
we conceive it to be but simple justice to our
fellow.townsman to say of him, and should he
be successful in his ambition the interest of
the Sth district would be conscientiously
looked after"