Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-23
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON. July %.

WASHINGTON. July %.
1t is rumored here that the support
the Atlanta Journal, Secretary Hoke
Smiths paper, is giving to the national
democratic ticket, will likely be the
cause of break in the Presidents Cab
met, Mr.. Smiths best friends say they
hope he may be forced out, as such
treatment would be the making of him
in Georgia.
The recent national bank statement
shows that the deposits in the Riggs
bank of this city, which has only re-
Gently become a national bank, amount
to S3,30O,0O0, which is twice as much
as those of any other bank here.
Mr.. Lewis, republican of Rocking
ham county, Virginia, now here, says
he thinks Mr.. Woo, of Albemarle coun-
ty, will get the republican congress
sonal nomination in that, the 9TH dis
trict.
The democrats here hope the cranks
in the populist convention at st. Louis
may bolt, as they fear their solid sup
port of the Chicago ticket may drive
some timed conservative men away
from It.
1t is stated here by those who know
what they are talking about that all the
life and fire insurance companies in the
North are notifying their policy hold.
ers that if free silver shall succeed, their
policies will be paid in "ifty.cent dol
lars" and that the merchants in that
section are notifying their Southern
hot
for free silver they must settle up at
once.
Virginia republicans here say when
the members of the new State commit.
tee of the party, to be elected by the
several district conventions, shall meet,
there is likely to be lively time, and
that Chairman Lamb will be sat upon
again, and his action in allowing the
old committee to appoint the new exc
cutive committee be reversed.
A New York republican here to-day
says the Mckinley managers are not as
wise as serpents, as they have deter
mined to establish headquarters in that
city and put Mr., Manley, the man who
gave away the cause of their favorite,
Mr.. Reed, at their national conven-
ton in St. Louis, in charge thereof.
A private dispatch received here this
morning from Cape Charles City, where
the republican convention of the LIST
Virginia district was held to-day, says
there was no doubt that Mr.. Tyler, of
Fredericksburg, would be nominated.
Secretary Gardner, of the democratic
committee, is today in receipt of large
number of letters from all portions of
New York and New England request
ing literature, and stating that the free
silver sentiment is steadily growing. All
of the communications coming in are of
the most encouraging character, and
the outlook is that education will &C
complish wonders before the time for
the fall elections arrives. Among other
requests for heavy consignment of
campaign documents was one from the
printers employed on a leading republi.
can paper of Philadelphia, coupled
with the statement that those employ
ees contemplated forming Bryan and
Sewall club. E1-State Senator S. II.
Walker, of West Virginia, was among
the callers. He said there is no doubt
that the party will redeem itself in No
yember so far as his State is concerned,
and he expects to see four democratic
Congressman added to the success of the
Bryan electoral ticket. Nothing, he
says, can discourage the free-silyer SEN
timent prevailing in West Virginia, and
no attention will be paid to the anti
quated ideas of protection which the
republicans are trying to resurrect as
an issue in the campaign.
The New York agents of the foreign
bankers advanced the government nine
millions in gold to-day, of course for a
consideration.