Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-11-02
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazett


WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.
Secretary Lamont, accompanied by
Mr.. John Seager, his private secretary,
left Washington for New York this
morning to vote against the democratic
ticket.
There is absolutely nothing in the
weather conditions to prevent every
farmer in the South from reaching the
polls tomorrow, however distant, for
the roads are in their best possible con-
dition and are sure to remain so for
several days at least.
A free silver man from Philadelphia
here to-day reports that Mr.. Fitzgerald,
owner of the Item, which has an i'm
mense circulation in that city, says he
is republican, but will vote the free
silver ticket, and that as soon as the
free coinage of silver shall be resumed
he will advance the wages OF all his
large number of employees ten per cent.
The democratic campaign in Alexan-
dria county will be closed tonight with
grand meeting at Carne's School
House, in Washington district, near
this city, to which procession with
music and transparencies will march
from the south end Of the Aqueduct
Bridge.
For the accommodation of Alexan-
drians who may be in this city uo-mor'
row night, train Of cars, on the cleo
trio railroad, Will leave here for that
city at half past two o'clock that mig bit.
A democrat here TO day from Balti.
more says he was informed there by an
employee of one of the largest establish
ments in that city that he and all his fell
low laborers had been supplied with
cards which they were required to re-
turn 80 marked as to show that they
had marched in the Mckinley process
sion.
DIR. Harmon, of this city, who was
one of the speakers at the democratic
meeting at St. Asaph last Saturday
night, says several people who have
heretofore voted the republican ticket,
told him they intend TO vote the free
silver ticket.
A private letter was received here
this morning from Secretary Carlisle's
private secretary who accompanied Mr..
Carlisle on his campaigning trip in
Kentucky, in which he says Bryan will
carry that State by eighteen thousand
majority, and one from ex. Governor
and present Congressman McCreary,
who is nothing if not conservative, puts
Bryan's majority at ten thousand. The
correspondent of the Louisville Courier
Journal here was hunting for people
to-day who would bet that Kentucky
would 60 for Mckinley, but found none.
A private letter from business man
in New York received here to-day says
the political condition there is more
complicated than at any previous cleo
ton, and that though the republicans
are claiming the State by 100000 and
the city by 10000 majority, the silver
men are making gallant fight, and
that if the workingmen be not bull
dozed and bribed they will still sue
coed. Tammany, he says, will win in
New York, Notwithstanding the treach-
cry of some of its leaders.
The difference between the Bryan
and Mckinley voters in Virginia and
Maryland was rendered very patent
to-day at the headquarters of the two
parties in this city. At democratic
headquarters few clean and indus
trious looking white people applied for
certificates upon which they could buy
with their own money half-fare tickets
to their voting places in the two States
referred to. At republican headquar-
tiers there was crowd of negroes and
lame, halt and half blind and ragged
white men, who looked like tramps, who
were supplied with free transportation,
many of whom, if the weather shall
turn cold, will very probably have to
be provided for during the winter by
the counties to which they go.
The feeling among democrats here
to-day may be properly described as one
ofconfidence tempered by fear. At head.
quarters it is said every thing is lovely
and the goose hangs high, and demo
cratic money is more freely wagered
than on any previous day. Col. L. @.
Washington, who is familiar with ma
tional elections for the last fifty-years,
says he is confident of Bryan's election.
and that the indications are more fay.
orable to democratic success now than
they were the day before the election
in '92.