Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
[ Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. August /.

Correspondence OF tne AeXanulld uaZette.J
WASHINGTON. August l.
A Virginia democrat, here to-day,
says there is no doubt of Mr.. Floods
election to Congress in the 10th Virginia
district, as there is large silver ma
jority in that district, and for the adj
ditional reason that Mr.. Flood is one Of
the few lucky men he knows. He says
that though Mr.. Flood, when student
with him at Emory and Henry College,
brought a tame coon there, which
was against orders, he was not even
reprimanded, though young Latter
ty, the present we'll known preacher,
was expelled for cutting of its tail and
wearing it attached to his hat.
Mr.. Yost, republican nominee for
Congress in the Staunton district, Mr..
Tyler, republican nominee for Congress
in the Fredericksburg district, Mi.
Griffin, chairman of the republican
committee of the latter district, and
MIR. Crupper, chairman of the lily
white republican committee of Alexan-
dria, were all here this morning, in con-
sultation with Col. Brady, who seems
to be the Washington manager of re-
publican affairs in Virginia.
MIR. J. Z. Boyd, member of the ma.
tional republican committee from North
Carolina, here to-day, on the way home
from New York, says the republicans
and populists of his State will coalesce
and vote the straight Mckinley ticket.
People from the Alexandria congress
sional district here to-day say they
would not be at all surprised if Mr..
Walton Moore of Fairfax county would
be the democratic nominee in that dis.
trict, though he is not candidate, and
has requested his friends not to think
of him in any such connection.
A New Yorker here to-day says that
when Mckinley flag, flying in trent
of the hotel at which Senator Hill was
stopping, blew down during the recent
storm in that city, an acquaintance re-
marked to that the storm was Sc
we're ore. EYES," replied the Senator,
shut not as severe as the one next No.
vem5er will be-"
Mr.. Johnson, chairman Of the Bryan
and Sewall club of Culpeper, here to.
day, saws his club with full ranks will
be sure to attend the Bryan reception
in this city.
People from New York now in this
city say that the famous Judge Riley of
Accomac, the man made famous by
shooting with bird shot, the queen of
one of the Pacific islands, who, with
some of her subjects, was bathing, with
out suit, in front of his cottage, has
offered his services to Mr.. Hanna, of
course for q consideration.
Ex-Congressman Maish Of Pennsyl-
vania, now here, says the spread OF
the free silver idea among miners and
all other working people in his State is
astonishing not only to their employers
but to everybody at all familiar with
them.
A well-known northern republican
correspondent, just returned from trip
through the Northwest, says that
though gold papers in the North have
been informed of the true condition OF
the silver feeling in all that section, they
will not give the information to their
readers. He says all classes of people
10 that section are possessed of it, and
that the republican U. S. Senator from
Illinois told him he feared that State
was irretrievably lost.
The mail from Gray Gables to-day
brought the following appointments:
Macgrane Coke OF New York, envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary of the United States to Guatemala
and Honduras, to succeed ?. NJ. B.
Young, deceased; and James S. Boyd,
to be postmaster at Cold Spring, n. Y,
vice E. II. Timm, the republicao incum'
bent, whose commission has expired
Just seven months before that OF MIR.
shall do so.
Mr.. Hills resolution in the Chicago
that until international CO.
operation among leading nations for
the coinage of silver can be secured we
favor the rigid maintenance of the ex-
listing gold standard as essential to the
preservation of our national credit"
was lost and is so announced officially
Vice Chairman Apsley, of the republican
recently said that there was no
free silver sentiment in New England.
Chairman Faulkner, of the democratic
this morning quoted a let
ter from Massachusetts to show that
in Mr.. Apsleys home, the Hudson Mass
Independent had como out for free silver, and
that Bryan free silver club had also been
in the home of the vice. chairman
of the republican committee.