Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. August 10

Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazotte.l
WASHINGTON, August 10
Unless the wishes of Chairman But
Ter and the members of the executive
committee are set aside, Mr.. Watson,
populist candidate for the Vice Presi-
dsncy, will not be officially notified OF
his nomination for that place. Chair
man Butler last night, while declining
to make any specific statements on the
subject, said that failure TO notify
would not be unusual, for the reason
that the populists had never yet notified
their candidates. Now that the com
mittee has decided upon Washington as
the headquarters, Chairman Butler has
accepted the Invitation OF Chairman
Faulkner, of the democratic congress
sional committee, to use portion o!
the Wormley Hotel, now occupied By
the democratic congressional committee,
and the impression is that there will be
more or less of unity OF action by the
democrats aud populists. Chairman
Butler denied that any pooling arrange
m mt for the circulation of literature
had been or would be arranged between
the democrats and populists, but ad
mitted that they would work together
in the utmost harmony. "You cannot
send out too much literature in cam
psign like this" said he, "for the peo-
pie are crying for light and knowledge
upon the one question Of llnarce. The
two committees will not interfere, for
while we may send out largely the same
class of material, it will reach different
voters even in the same town." 1t ", 8
decided by the committee last nigh.
that there should be one head for the
populist executive committee aud the
congressional committee, and Senator
Butler will, therefore, preside over all
the work. The labor5 Of the respective
committees will, however, be divided
and will continue along the lines al
ready established. The democratic
committee has been notified by teler
graph by Mr.. Bryan that he had
changed his arrangements SO as to ed-
d ess the people of Erie, Pa, on the
26th of this month instead of the 30 b
as was originally arranged for.
Ex. Governor Cameron, of Virginia,
passed through the city yesterday eli
route to Petersburg where he says he
will open campaign in favor Of sound
money democratic ticket, ard devote
himself entirely to fighting the free sii
YER heresy. He said : II believe the
Bryan and Sewall ticket will be
defeated, and in that event | can
see no future for the extreme sill
YER men who now have control ex-
cept in the populist party. The
sound money democrats will remain a.
the nucleus about which the party will
rebuild itself. consider the nomina-
ton of third ticket as an absolute ne
cessity if the party is to remain in ex
istence." People who know whereof
they speak say the ex-Governor's SCI
vices have been engaged by the Virginia
republican committee.
The President to-day appointed Col.
Charles G. Sawtelle, Qnartermaster
General of the army, with the rank o.!
Brigadier General.
BIDS were opened at the Capitol to-
day for furnishing the .. S. Senate with
1000 tons of white ash furnace coal.
They we're as follows: j. Z. Rose, $4.46;
J. P. Agnew, $4.51; Johnson Brcs., 1.6S;
Charles Werner, 81 GS, and w. Fl. Baum
$3.50.
1t is said here by people who know
what they are talking about taat not
withstanding the Presidents inaciiou,
he is doing all he can to defeat his par
tvs ticket and to demonstrate that he
was not sincere when he said, four
years ago, and when he was to be the
beneficiary, that every member of
party should submit to the arbitramel t
of its conventions. They say he is
highly gratified at the detection of the
gold democrats.
Col. Brady, secretary of the commit
tee appointed by the national repubh-
can committee to conduct the repub!i-
can campaign in Virginia, called at re-
publican headquarters here this morn
ing. He says the republicans will
make an active and vigorous contest in
his State and have strong hopes of sue
cess, that they are greatly stimulated
by the gold democrats there, not only
in Richmond, but in the counties, that
all the differences in their party have
been satisfactorily settled, and that
Col. Mosby's letter in reply to Judge
Hughes's on the silver question has
been received here and will be publish
ed.
A prominent national democrat here
to-day, who was in New York last
night, says that at low estimate FIVE
billion dollars were represented at the
anti-silver meeting there, bat that from
what he heard among the crowd, that
very fact alone would make million
votes for Bryan.
Intelligence from Virginia here is to
the effect that in al the rural portions
of the State the feeling in favor of free
silver is not only in the ascendant bu;
affects republicans as well as democrats,
and that as the majority of the voters III
that State are farmers, the majority for
the silver ticket there will be very
large, Congressman Otey, it is said,
has organized democratic silver clubs
in nearly sll the counties in the State,
the membership of which is constantly
increasing. Campaign literature is
sent to these clubs from this city. The
clubs in Winchester and Leesburg and
in many of the other towns of the State
have many members who have hereto.
fore voted the republican ticket.
A Boston free silver man here today
says people down this way have no
conception OF the strength of the free