Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-05
Chairman Butler of the populist ma

Chairman Butler of the populist ma
tional committee returned to Washing.
ton from Atlanta this morning. The
Senator expresses himself as well salts
fed with the present political situation,
and is entirely confident Of Bryan and
Watson's election. Mr.. Watson will
begin his Texas tour in about ten days.
Judge Ri1ey, democratic candidate
for Congress in the Alexandria district,
was here yesterday evening. He speaks
in the most confident terms of demo
cratic success in his district, where. ne
says. almost everybody is for free silver.
He viii! speak in Ballston, in Alexan-
dria country, next Thursday.
Among the callers at democratic
headquarters here to-day was Con-
gresham Jones of the 1st Virginia dis
trict. He will speak at Warsaw, i'll his
district, on Monday. MIR. Hampton
Hoge, the republican candidate for Con-
gress in the Gin district, will speak
there on the same day, but Mr.. Jones
says he doesn't know or care whether
there will be discussion or not. He
| tried to have discussion with him at
Bowling Green but failed and certainly
| will not try any more. Mr.. Jones Is
Just from Richmond where he says at
the State democratic headquarters the
most favorable reports are received
from all parts of the State. In his own
district, he says, the democratic ma
jority will be larger than usual. All
the congressional districts in the State
now represented by democrats, he says,
are perfectly safe. In the other
two, the 9th and 4th, he says, the dem
ocrats are also confident of success. He
met ex Attorney General Ayers of the
former in Richmond, who told him
every thing was right there, as the re-
publican candidate, though for years
free silver man, is running on the gold
platform. In the latter, he says, the
democrats are not only in better condi-
ton than they have been for years,
but that the republicans are by no
means united. Mr.. Gee, the favorite
of large number of their voters
for the congressional nomination,
having been forced to withdraw, not by
the people of the district, but by com
mittee appointed in New York. Mr..
Jones called upon Governor O'Ferrall
while in Richmond, who, he says, lives
in palace he has recently bought near
that city, but that the Governor did not
tell him how he was going to vote.
Mr.. Jones says Captain Lamb, the dem
ocratic candidate from Congress in the
Richmond district, is the first farmer
who has been nominated there for forty
years. He is good talker, he says,
will be easily elected, and will
make an excellent representative.
Mr.. Jones says remarkable thing about
the republican campaigners now in
Virginia is that though none of them
has any money to be throwing away in
| going about the country that is deal
against them, they all say they are in
nobody's pay and are bearing their own
expenses.
| Mr.. Pat McCaull, the republican
candidate for Congress in the Stb Vir-
GINA district, went from here to-day to
Loudoun county, where there was to be
republican pole raising. He and Mr..
Brown Allen of Augusta county, ex-
readjuster, and Judge RiXey and Mr.
Andrew Lipscomb of Alexandria coun'
ty, had discussion at King George
Court House on Thursday, which, he
SAYS, was "a very nice affair"
A newspaper correspondent who has
Just returned from Indianapolis says
the boilers convention was the toniest
affair he ever attended and that it sug.
geated to him an enlarged bank direct
ors' meeting, whose policy was not the
golden rule, but rule of gold, and
that the delegates looked and talked
not as if they had the interest of the
people at heart, but rather as if the
} people might be ID. He says no.
body expects the ticket they nominal.
ed will get any votes.
Senator German was at democratic
headquarters this morning. He doesn't
talk for publication, but, according to
} his friends, he says things will proba'
} bly, be all right. He is in the best Of
health and spirits. Gen. Joe Wheeler
. Of Alabama was also there. He says
he will continue to represent his district
in Congress. General Black Of Penn
sylvania was another of the CALLERS,
He says the democrats will gain several
} congressional districts in his State
Congressman Meyer of Louisiana,
who was there, too, says the congress.
sional delegation from his State will be
solidly democratic, and Congressman
Kern of Missouri says that Is of the II
congressman from his State will be