Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON, August 81.

WASHINGTON, August 81.
Mr.. Andrew LIP comb OF Alexandria
county, Virginia, VINO has been making
democratic speeches in his State, says
there is no necessity for ANYBODY to
talk to Virginians to induce them to
vote the silver ticket, as the majority
that ticket will receive there will be
immense, and be made up in no little
part by the votes of men in the Valley
and the Southwest portion of the State
Who have for years past been voting
the republican ticket.
A gentleman who travelled with DR..
Wise, the republican candidate for
Congress in the Norfolk, Virginia. dis
trict, on the cars yesterday, says
the Doctor told him the nation
al republican committee had given
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to the committee it has appointed to
conduct the republican campaign in
Virginia. That's right large sum, and
the darkies, who supply the only effec-
tive strength the republican party has
in that State, should take care before
hand that they get at least some of it.
Reliable intelligence received here is
to the effect that Mr.. Cleveland would
prefer to vote for boilers ticket, rath.
er than straightout republican ticket,
and that therefore the Indianapolis
convention will nominate one. 1t need
not be said that the democrats here
hope his desire in this respect may be
gratifed.
An old Ohio democrat here to-day
says his years have given him reason to
believe in the fallibility OF individual
democrats, but in the infallibility OF
national democratic conventions.
The national democratic committee
will make campaign document out Of
that part of Mr.. Bourke Cockrar.'s
speech in which he speaks of those
democrats of the South who will abide
the arbitrament of the national demo-
cratic convention, as unreconciled slave
holders who having lost their property
want to make every body else lose
theirs.
The Columbia democratic association
of this city held its first regular meet
ing of the campaign last night. The
association has one hundred and fifty
members, of whom one only, Mr.. P. K.
Riley, has withdrawn, as his conscience
will not permit him to support the na-
tional democratic ticket.
In talking to-day about the we'll
known fact that General Grant, like
everybody else, except the con-
spirators, was unaware of the de-
monetization of silver until some
time after he had signed the bill
that effected that object, said, what few
people ever knew and what even fewer
remember, that the General was offered
the Presidential nomination by the dem
ocrats after the war, and that when he
declined their offer, they made it to
General Sherman, who said he, too,
would decline it, unless thew agreed to
make the Office life tenure.
Ex-Mayor Barrett, of this city, now
q resident of Maryland, and next to
Senator German, as well informed OF
the political condition of that State as
anybody else, says be is confident Bryan
will carry it by satisfactory majority.
Colonel Phil. Thompson, who stood
by Colonel Breckenridge in his trouble
two years ego. says the Colonel has
made great mistake in declaring
against the national democratic ticket,
and has efectually closed his political
career. He also says Kentucky is safe
for Bryan and Sewall.
Intelligence here to day from Ohio is
to the effect that the free silver feeling
there, like grace, grows day by day,
that the 'plain" people of both the old
parties have become possessed of it,
and that Notwithstanding the large re-
publican majority that State usually
gives, some of the best informed poll.
ticians there are convinced that the
silver ticket will win there next No
vember.