Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-12
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FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ale1sndris Gazette
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Some Loudoun county democrats
here to-day say they know only two
democrats in that county who are not
in favor of the Chicago ticket, out
know plenty of republicans there who
will vote that ticket because 1t Is Tor
free silver, aud that the impression on
the subject there now is that the county
will give Bryan larger majority than
il has given any candidate for any office
for many years.
People VINO were at Bowling Greer.
Virginia last Monday say the political
meetings held there that day differed
in no respect from similar meetings neld
ic all the rural portions Of N!:ginIa
>ince the war. the democratic speaker
havlue Tor ms aGdieace all the wni.e
people ,,resea., AZ he republicans
having for tneir listeners The entire mum
Der OF negroes on the ground. Inc
color line, they say. was as we'll drawn
as ever.
Virginia republicans, here to-day,
when talking 10 themselves or 10 their
democratic friends whom they know
won't give them away. say that the
promise Of a large appropriation from
the national republican campaign fund,
induced by false reports OF democratic
detection in certain parts OF the
State, has produced love least among
the late warning factions of their party
in their State, aud that, in consequence,
every thing is lovely, and the goose hangs
high with them. Under the new era
of good feeling, republican opposition TO
DR.. Wise in the 2nd and 10 Mr. Thorp
in the 18th district. republican candidates
for Congress in those districts, has been
withdrawn, and Col. Lamb and his late
kicking State committee get now along
together as sweetly as cooling doves.
There was to have been conference OF
some OF the republicans from the ad
loiniug district OF Virginia and OF this
district, here to day, Messrs. Shumate
Hine. Wales, Brown, McCaull and
Allen. but up to two o'clock, the in
tense heat, or something else. prevented
them from meeting. 1t seems 10 br
conceded that Mr.. McCaull will be IN,
republican candidate for Congress in his
district
Chairman Babcock, OF the republican
congressional campaign committee, has
returned from the West, and essays the
hard task OF stimulating the republi-
cans OF this city 20 renewed hope, by
telling them that the news they hear
from the Northwest about the spread
OF the free silver idea is founded upo,
fiction, not fact, and that all that re-
gion of country is as solidly republican
now as it ever was. But few believe
him, however, and there is no doubt
that al the republicans one meets With
here, except they hail from Virginia,
are in the doldrums.
Major George Foster Robinson, pay
master, was placed or the retired list OF
the army to-day. having reached the
statutory age limit OF 81 years. While
messenger in the War Department in
1865, after serving as a private in q
Maine volunteer regiment, he was de
tailed as nurse to Secretary Seward,
who had been thrown from carriage
and the night President Lincoln was
shot. Robinson saved the Secretary OF
State from the hand Of the attempted
assassin, Payne, for which ne was
awarded gold medal for meritorious
services.
The hot weather still continues in
Washington and residents OF the Capt.
tai find their only relief in anticipation.
Cooler weather with local showers Is
promised for tomorrow, Thursday
night. This morning slight bretz-
tempered the suns rays, and later they
were dullad by bank of clouds. Up
to ! o'clock FIVE prostrations from the
heat had been reported, and one death,
Jefferson Angel, engineer of Fire
Engine Company No. 5, who had been
in the service OF the District for many
years.