Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-10-28
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Oct. IS.

correspondence Ol tuC hloAduuiih poHote0'J
WASHINGTON, Oct. rs.
Speaking of the alleged forecast OF
the weether on election day given out
by prophet Ira B. Hicks, of st. Louis,
Major Dunwoody, the official forecas-
ter of the Weather Bureau, said to-
day: Nobody on earth can tell what
the weather will be next Tuesday. By
next Saturday every weather indica
ton that we have to-day will have
to day will have passed away. This
man Hicks said Major Duuwoody,
sis one of the great many characters
who are scattered throughout the
country and who pretend to fore
tell the weather anywhere from
week to month ahead.
As matter of fact the storm to which
be alludes is passing from West to East,
instead of East to West, as would be in
ferred from the dispa'c CHI. The western
part of the country is vast enough to
contain all kinds of weather so Hicks
prediction of stormy weather on cleo
ton day may be verified, and as for a
storm in st. Louis within the next few
days, the Weather Bureau itself has
predicted that.
N. A. Dunning, formerly editor Of
the Populist National Organ, has pre-
pared an appeal to populists to cut
loose from the democratic alliance. 1t
is said here that Mr. Dunning was sub.
iected to the malign influence of Mr..
Hanna and could not resist it. His
own vote, however, will be the extent
of his effectiveness.
The democrats here are in high
spirits to-day and the money the re-
publicans talk about as being ready to
stake at odds on Mckinley, though
diligently sought for, cannot be found
The work of the campaign has been
practically closed at democratic head
quarters, and, indeed, at all the others.
though Mr.. Hanna, at Chicago, will
continue to send money to close dis
tricts until the election returns have
been made out. The confidence the
democrats feel is inspired by the as
surance they have received from all
quarters of the country that the work.
ingmen have determined to resent the
insult put upon them by the tyranny of
their plutocratic employers, who have
compelled them by the fear of losing
their places to join Mckinley clubs
and wear Mckinley buttons, and who
threaten either openly or covertly to
discharge them if they fail to vote for
Mckinley.
Mr.. Andrew Lipscomb, who has just
in
Virginia and West Virginia, says the
report that the railroad employees have
been so bulldozed that they will vote
for Mckinley is not reliable, and that
he is confident they will cast an almost
solid vote for Bryan, though they wear
Mckinley buttons under compulsion,
care having been taken to inform them
that they will risk the loss of their
places by refusing to vote for McKin,
ley. Mr.. ingalls,, he says, asserts that
Mckinley will get seventy-fve per
cent. of the vote of the railroad hands,
but that in his opinion he will not get
seven, and that that seven will be com.
posed chiefly of republicans.
Among the visitors here to-day is
Congressman Turner of Virginia. He
says there are few boiling democrats
in his district whose votes will be divi-
ded about equally between Mckinley
and Palmer, but that the district will
give Hay, the democratic candidate for
Congress the usual democratic majority.
and the State 90 for Bryan by from
twenty-five to thirty thousand majority.
Senator Cameron of Pennsylvania,
one of the most atsute politicians in the
country, told friend this morning
that from present appearances no body
could tell who will be elected next
Tuesday.
A private letter received here to-day
FROM Senator Teller, who has been
campaigning in Michigan and Indiana,
says he is certain that both those States
are safe for Bryan.
People here to day from Loudoun
county, Virginia, in which there is 9
large Quaker settlement, say nearly all
the Hicksites there will vote the free
silver ticket.
Mr.. Stacey, the Washington CORE
spondent OF the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal, who has acquired the reputation OF
being the most successful election bet
tor in the country, has bet $4,000 that
Kentucky will 60 for Bryan. He says
fully ten thousand Kentucky demo-
Gratis who failed to vote at recent cleo
tons on account of their opposition to
the administration, will be earnest
workers at the polls next Tuesday.
Secretary Carlisle's brother, the post.
master at Covington, oyer whose as
sertion that he will vote for NInKinloY /