Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazetie.J
WASHINGTON, August s.

of ticket and the adoption OF plat
form. s'This action, said he, will, toi
obvious reasons, have no effect on the
general result. In the middle western
States where the great battle Is to be
fought. the democrats are more lnde
pendent of action than they are in the
east. and the lines of battle have been
sharply drawn. In that country every
man has made up his mind, or will by
the dav of election, and the fight will
be squarely between Bryan and free
silver on the one side and Mckinley
and the gold standard on the other
Democrats who are against Bryan
will not hesitate, as l look at
the situation, to vote for Mckinley
and republicans who oppose the ideas
represented by Mckinley will ally
themselves with the democrats. The
ticket to be nominated by the Indian
apolis contingent will not affect these
men. There is class Of democrats IL
that section who hesitate to vote fol
the republican ticket outright and the
nomination of third ticket may en-
able them to ease their conscience and
refrain from voting for Mckinley. This
class is not large, however, and their
votes will be cast in States where the
result will not be affected by such in'
d D ,ndent voting. Looking at the
subject, however, from broad point
of view, l Go not see how this ticket
expects to draw many votes from the
regularly nominated and endorsed
ticket of the democratic party in con-
yention assembled We are not afraid
of it: not in the least
Democrats from the Alexandria con-
gressional district in Virginia, here to.
day, say the prevalent impression on
the subject there is, as it has been for
some time past, that Mr.. Rixey of Gull
pepper county will be nominated for
Congress in that district by the conven-
ton which will meet in Alexandria
next Wednesday, but on what ballot
they cannot tell, as several of the coun-
ty delegations will stick to their coun-
lyman during several ballots. Mr..
Rixey will 60 into the convention with
more delegates than any other candi-
date, and they will stand by him to
the last.
Secretary Carlisle started this morn
ing on his trip to visit the President at
Buzzsrd's Bay, Mass. His party con.
sists of Mrs. Carlisle and his son W. K.
Carlisle and his wife, and their two
children. They sailed for New York
on the light house tender Maple and
there will be transferred to the tender
Mistletoe. He expects to be absent
about two weeks. The Maple left her
wharf at l1:30 a. N.
J.J. Anderson was to-day appointed
postmaster at Houghton, Giles county,
Va, vice J. Sweet, resigned.
Senator Martin of Virginia was here
for short time yesterday evening to
see Chairman Faulkner of the Congress
sional campaign committee in reference
TO arrangements about the democratic
campaign in his State. But Mr.. Faux
ner not being here, he went back home
Immediately. While here he had a
short talk with Senator Jones, chair
man of the national democratic COM
mittee, who gave him most satisfactory
information from all parts Of the coun-
try. In respect Of his own State, Mr..
Martin says the democratic majority, be
has every reason to believe, will be en-
tirey satisfactory even to the most san
guine members of the party.
Mr.. Turner Of this city, formerly a
member Of Congress from New York
known generally as 'iceman" Turner,
because he drove an ice wagon in the
latter city, will speak at Leesburg next
Monday, August court, at the Bryan
and Sewall ratification meeting to be
held there that day.
Mr.. Flood, the democratic candidate
for Congress in the 10th Virginia dis
trict, was also here yesterday to see his
uncle, Senator Faulkner, the chairman
of the democratic congressional cam
paign committee, about literature for
his campaign, and, not finding him,
went to Martinsburg, West Virginia,
after him. Mr.. Flood says the demo.
Gratis in his district are practically solid,
and that thu free silver feeling, except
among few at Stanton, is as strong
there as it is in any other part of the
State.
Messrs. Park Agnew of Alexandria
and Harry Libby of Hampton, and
Judge Strother of the 9th Virginia dis
trict, the three supplemental members
of the Virginia republican committee
appointed by the national republican
committee to conduct the campaign in
that State, and which three, being all
Lamb men, puts that committee in the
control of Col. Lamb, started from here
last night for New York, on invitation
from Mr.. Scott, now in charge OF the
national committee. 1t is said by re-
publicans here that such money as may
be appropriated to Virginia will be put
in chargeiof this committee, to be dis
tributed as they may think proper.
Mr. Hampton Hoge, the republican
candidate for Congress in the Lynch.
burg district, is in the city to-day, and
called at republican headquarters. He
sings the same old republican tune in
his State, that with a free vote and a
fair count, the republicans will have a
large majority there.
Mr.. Hay, who will be the democratic
candidate for Congress in the eth or
Winchester, Virginia, district is here
| to-day. MIR. Hay is q son of the late
Dr.. William Hay of Clarke county, Vir.
ginia, who had many acquaintance
and several relatives in Alexandria,
Mr.. Hay is State Senator, and made
himself first known to an Alexandra
! audience by speech he made in the
Congressional convention there that