Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-22
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WASHINGTON. July %.
A large number of people will 60
from here to Marshall Hall this even
ing on the excursion to be given by
the Virginia democratic association OF
this CITY. Senator Harris will not be
present, as he started for his home this
afternoon, and Congressman Allen may
not reach here in time to go, but their
places will be we'll filled by Mr.. Bell,
who spoke in Alexandria last week,
and Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb.
1t is now reported that the President
will not write letter in respect of his
desertion of the democratic party, lest
it do the boilers more harm than good,
and that he will play waiting race
until he shall be more certain concern
ing the result of the campaign.
A clerk in the Treasury Department
from Virginia, who has recently return
ed from his summer furlough, when
asked by the chief of his division the
other day as to the extent of the free
silver feeling among the country people
of his State, shocked him by replying
that of all the men he had talked with
on the subject, every one was for free
silver except one, and he was drunk.
The sum of two million more gold
was withdrawn from the Treasury to-
day and FIVE million more, it is expect.
ed, will be taken out during the re-
mainder of the week, for export alone,
let alone what shall be Withdrawn for
boarding purposes. A new bond issue
is now in full view, Notwithstanding
| the reported offer of the New York
| banks, and that will make the assur-
ance of Bryan's election doubly sure.
Among the strangers now 10 the city
is ex.Congressman Conger of Ohio, a
rank republican, and prominent bust
ness man in his State, and now on his
way to Europe Ia talking privately
to his political friends here he says the
spread of the id craze" as he calls
! free silver, is inexplicable and BODIES no
good to his party either in his State or
in the whole country. 1t is an indubi-
table fact that intelligent republicans
from all parts of the country who come
here are at the present time seriously
alarmed at the political outlook, and
unless the clouds that now lower above
them be soon dissipated, they will be as
those without hope.
An Alexandria county democrat
talking hero to-day about the political
prospect in his county said he be-
lieved that unless there shall be great
change in the feeling there between
now and election day. not only all the
democrats, but half the negroes and
many of the republicans living there
would vote the free silver ticket. A
Virginia cattle dealer, just from Balti-
more says all the cattle men he met
there, and they we're from his State,
Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Vir
GINA, were unanimously for free silver,
no matter what their previous politics
may have been. A Baitimorean, on
business with telephone company
here, says the working men of his city
are practically solid for the Chicago
ticket, and have been made so to a
large extent by the boiling of MIR. Cow
en- and other rich democrats there,
the detection of every one of whom, he
says, has been worth hundreds of votes
to the Chicago ticket.
Mail advices from Demerara indicate
that the British have not by any means
abandoned the survey of the road
through the disputed territory on the
border of Venezuela and that while
the official surveyor, Mr.. Harrison, is
returning to Georgetown, special
force of armed men, under the command
of Police Inspector Shaw, has left
Georgetown under instructions to pro-
tect the surveyors.
Well informed republican politicians from
the Sth, the Alexandria district, here to-day,
aud some Of those Of this city who are in cor
respondence with their party's leaders in that
district, cay the chances of the republican
congressional nomination in taat district are
strongly in favor of McCaull of Culpeper,
from which county, they also say, the demo-
cratic candidate will hail.
Representative Mercer, secretary of the re-
publican congressional committee has return
ed to the city from visit TO his home in Me-
braska. Speaking of the situation in his own
State, Mr. Mercer says that general enthusi-
asm prevails throughout Nebraska over the
nomination of Mr. Bryan, the result, to
large extent, of local pride and of MIR. Bryan's
personal popularity.
Judge Hagner this evening decided that
the issues raised in the case of Prince Ytur-
bide, who several days ago prayed for writ
of mandamus to compel the board of govern
ors of the Metropolitan Club to revoke their
suspension of him from the club, shall be tried
in the circuit court before jury.