Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-29
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.

Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. Oct. 30.
Captain Thomas l.. Casey, in charge
of the U. S. engineer office, at Norfolk,
has opened bids for dredging the chan
mel of the western branch of the Eliza
beth river. Sanford Ross, of Jersey
City, New Jersey, will get the contract.
Attorney General Harmon, on the
nomination of District Attorney White.
has appointed B. unddolph Wexford .Oi
Richmond. Va. assistant United States
district attorney for the eastern district
of Virginia, vice William ii. Mann,
who was removed because he is a demo
crat.
From the way an ex-member of the
Virginia legislature mere to day talks OF
some Of the prominent gold boilers OF
that State, it seems that this is not the
first time that they have bowed down
to the golden calf.
Mr.. Rixey, the democratic candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district,
left here yesterday for Culpeper, and
will not visit the city again until after
the election. He estimates his majority
at not less than Tour thousand.
The bottom seems to have dropped
out of the republican bucket here to-
day, and the democrat express the ut
most confidence in Bryan election. At
democratic headquarters all the intelli-
gence received from the middle Wes-
tern States is of the most ia
vorable character. AT the Treas.
ury Department toe prevalent feeling
is that Mckinley is as good as
defeated. Ex-senator Kellogg and J.
Hale Sypher, prominent republicans,
give up the fight, and the news from
New York that money advanced from
8 to so per cent. on call to-day, almost
took away the breath of the republi-
cans, as they looked upon it as a sure
sign of the abandonment in that city OF
ali hope for Mckinley. The chief
cause of all the democratic exuberance
and republican depression is the fact
that assurances have been received OF
the almost solid labor vote for the peo-
Piles candidate, Mr. Bryan, and against
that of the ~plutocrats, Mr.. Mckinley.
The laborers Of this city, though nom
voters, are in favor of Bryan almost to
a man., and report that their friends
elsewhere are OF the same mind. The
railroad hands, too, throughout the
country, it is.reported, will vote what is
called the poor mans ticket.
1t is stated authoritatively at the
State Department that Consul General
Lees return to this country at this time
is without any other international sig
n~iticance than that the state of affairs
in Havana just now is sc satisfactory
that his presence there is not urgently
required and that he has been able to
leave his office in the hands of Vice
Consul General Springer. General
Lee, officials declare, has merely seized
this opportunity TO visit his family, as
well as to see his son, who is a cadet
at West Point, and possibly take his
family back to Cuba with him next
month.
Virginians here express the hope
that the democrats in Alexandria, both
city and county, may not let the fraud
ulent vote registered in both be cast in
either, and hat not only some of those
who we're illegally registered, but those
who advised them to be 80, shall be ar
rested and prosecuted before election
day, so as to deter others from attempt
ing to cast fraudulent ballots.
1t is stated here on reliable authority
that the B. & O. r. r. has already is
sued more than four hundred free tick
cts to people who will go to West Vir-
ginia to vote for Mckinley. If this be
so, the officers OF that road have VIC
lated the interstate commerce law, and
should be brought to trial.
Among the strangers here to-day is
DR.. Fisher, son CT the late DR.: James
Fisher, who was a well-known and ef-
fective democratic politician of Rich.
mond. He lives in New Jersey, and
says his town, Orange, is the only town
in the State that will 90 for Mckinley,
and that nine-tenths of the railroad and
labor vote o fthat State is for Bryan, who
will carry the State by a large majority.