Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-25
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July %.

WASHINGTON. July 70.
Judging from the talk among poll
ticians from various sections of the
country, now here, Northern as well as
Southern, aud republicans as well as
democrats,t the silver feeling, the craze,
as some of them still call it, is
prevalent everywhere, and, instead of
decreasing, is increasing under the
Campaign of education" They say
its spread is phenomenal, and that it
is as rife in New England as it is in
any other part of the country, and that
the conspicuous opposition made to it
by rich democrats has done more than
anything else to enlarge the number of
those ofwhose souls and bodies it seems
to have possessed itself. Unless there
be great and unexpected change in
public feeling, their opinion is that it
will sweep the country.
A question that will engage the at
tention of the democratic national COM
mittee on, the return of Chairman Jones,
is what the status of national commit
teemen, who are openly working against
Bryan and Sewall, will be as regards
the national democratic committee.
Several national committeeman, it is
said, are working in conjunction with
the gold democrats against the Chicago
nominee. One of these is D. W. Law
Ter, of Minnesota, and already inquiries
have come from democrats of that
State whether it is not in the province
of the national democratic committee
to declare that vacancy exists in the
committee from Minnesota. The demo-
Gratis take tie tbs ground that when ma
tional committeeman bolts the party
nominee, by his own act, he takes him
self outside the poll Of the party, and
the party of the State, or the national
democratic committee, has the power to
fll the place of the offending member
by appointing some democrat from the
State in accord with the party.
Mr.. Alexander Mcdonald, Z. S. Min
ister to Persia, who stopped here for
medical treatment, improved so much
that he started for his home in Lynch
burg this morning.
The district democratic committee
net last night to perfect arrangements
for receiving and entertaining Mr.Bryan
when he shall pass through here next
month on his way to New York, where
he will receive the official notification
of his nomination.
An old and experienced politician
here to-day from Northern State says
the refusal of the populist convention
to endorse the Chicago ticket will be
worth thousands of votes to that
ticket, as it will be the means
of preventing easily-scared demo
Gratis from DESERVING their party. He
also says all the free silver men in
the populist party in the Northern
States will vote the Chicago ticket, ir-
respective OF the action of that conven-
ton, and that the votes of the populists
in the South that may be cast against
him will amount to nothing. "The
people," he said, 'of the whole coun-
try, republicans and democrats, alike,
have determined to give free silver a
trial, and they will not be baked"
Judge Mccarthy, of New York, was
here yesterday. He says the only
thing be knows about democratic de-
lection in his city is what he reads in
republican and mugwump newspapers,
as all the democrats he talks with there
will stand by the party.
Virginia republicans here to-day say
if all the new members of their Stale
committee be like the majority of those
recently appointed by the convention
in the 1st district, their chairman, Col.
Lamb, will have wild horse team to
manage.