Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, August 30.

WASHINGTON, August 30.
Mr.. R. E. Difenderfer, secretary OF
the national silver party, speaking OF
the statement that Chief Arthur, of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
had declared for Mckinley and sound
money, said to-day "If the published
statement be true, 1 would like to ask
Chief Arthur how he reconciles such
action with his course in signing the
following paper, published in Senate
mis-. doc. No. "a, Fifty-third Congress,
third session: We demand of the
present Congress the immediate return
to the money of the Constitution as es-
tablished by our forefathers by restor-
ing the free and unlimited coinage OF
both gold and silver at the present
ratio of 16 to l, the coins of both metals
to be equally iuil legal tender for all
debts, public and private, as before the
fraudulent decentralization Of silver in
1873. We also condemn the increase
of the national debt in time of peace,
and the use of Understanding bonds
at any time This memorial is signed
by Marion Butler, President of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union; ]. R. Sovereign, Grand Master
Workman, Knights Of Labor; Samuel
Gompers, President American Fedora
ton of Labor; John Mcbride, President
United Mine Workers of America; P.
NJ. Arthur, Grand Chief, Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers; Frank z.
Sargent, Grand Master, Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Firemen; Henry II. Ire
nor, General President United Brother
hood Carpenters and Joiners of Ameri-
ca; G. A. Robinson, President Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association.
A. W. Farmer was appointed post
master at Upton, Carroll county, Va,
to-day, vice o. R. Robinson, resigned.
1t is said at democratic headquarters
here that canvass of the agricultural
districts of Iowa shows that sixty per
cent. OF the republican farmers there
are for Bryan, and reports from most
of the other States in the pivotal district
are ola similar nature.
Mr.. Dick Mitchell, q Charles county,
Maryland, republican, here to-day, says
his county, which went republican by
a large majority at the last election,
will 90 for freq silver next November,
and that Mr.. Charles Weiner, demo-
cratic lawyer of Baltimore, tells him
the State will give Bryan and Sewa]l
twenty thousand majority.
General Edgar Allen, the head Of the
republican organization in Richmond,
Virginia, left here this afternoon with
the Potomac division of the G. A. R +,
by the G. & o. R. R. for the annual
meeting of that organization.
Mr.. Picker, republican congressman
from South Dakota, who is here to-day,
says he has been campaigning in his
State for the last three weeks, and that,
so far as he could learn, there is but
little, if any, republican detection there,
but a good deal of democratic. When
asked if Senator Pettigrew, who is now
stumping the State for silver, doesn't
Think it will 90 for free silver, as he
left the republican party to advocate
that measure, Mr.. Picker had to say
be supposed so.
The Virginia Democratic Association
of this city was addressed last night by
DR.. S. L. Harmon and Mr. R. G. Glas-
cock, of this city, and Mr.. F. E. Ander-
son, of Alexandria.
Senator Stewart will address demo-
cratic meeting to be held in Alexandria
next Thursday night, and Major Stofer,
the well-known newspaper correspond
emit of this city, may possibly be present
and give an account Of the incidents of
9 trip he took with MIR. Bryan.
MIR, Maohen, of Fairfax county, here
to-day, says the democrats OF that
county were never more united than
thew are now, and that their majority
at the next election will be greater than
it has been for many years.
Captain Barnes, North Carolina
democratic politician, here to-day, says
the prevalent idea On the subject among
the democrats of his State is that after
all there will be fusion of all the
friends of free silver there, and that
Bryan will carry the State by a salts
factory majority.
Mr.. 81. L. Biscoe, lumber broker OF
this city, who does some business in
Alexandria, says the lumber merchants
of the latter city do large and profit.
able business, better than that of those of
many other cities. Owing, he says, to
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