Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-14
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette.

an active canvass, not only OF the Two
close congressional districts in that
State. but in all the others. Democrats
from Virginia now here laugh at this,
and say they are glad to hear it, but
that little of the money will reach the
pockets of the voters.
James w. Poe, chairman of the ma
tional republican protective association,
reports that up to date Al colored free
silver clubs have been organized in the
north, east and west. He has been ap
pealsd to by those reporting them, he
saws, to assist in bringing them into
line for gold standard for considera-
ton.
Dispatches from New York to the eff
feet that Senator Jones, chairman OF
the democratic national committee, had
declared open war on those members OF
the national com mittee not in sympathy
with the election of Mr.. Bryan, and
had determined to GUST them and sub
stitute men more Jealous in the cause,
attracted a great deal of attention
about democratic headquarters this
morning. Senator Faulkner, chairman
of the congressional committee, took
the ground that the chairman had the
authority to GUST such men as declined
to follow the behests of their party and
substitute others; that in so doing he
acted for the national committee, which
was the sole representative OF the ma
tional convention, and the only organ
ization that lived over from one con-
vention to another. Should Chairman
Jones, he said, find that the policy he
has outlined meets with too much OPP
position, he could easily accomplish the
same result by appointing the men from
the States in rebellion with whom be
desires to supplant the regular members
Of the committee, to places on the exec
utiye committe which will have the &C
tive management of the campaign.
There were a number OF callers al
democratic headquarters to day. Gen.
A. J. Warner of OHIO was one of them
He predicts success for the Bryan ticket
in Ohio. "The friends of silver in
Ohio" said he, ''are unanimous and
working for the election of Mr., Bryan.
There is no discussion in the ranks OF
the democrats; the populists and very
great many republicans will vote the
democratic ticket. 1t is my confident
belief that the masses of the people
Ohio, believing that they can never
find relief for the existing business de
preston in the gold standard, will vote
for democracy and free silver this yeai
as the only thing that promises them
hope for the future. The dissatisfied
element in OHIO forms very large per
centage of the republican vote, and thu
result will open the eyes Of those who
are welded to their golden idols.
make the prediction that Bryan will
carry Ohio by a very comfortable ma
jority."
Mr.. Edward w. Pou, the democratic
nominee for Congress in the 9Th North
Carolina district, who was at head
quarters this morning, declares tina,
the chances are good in his State for o
three-cornered fight, and if that be The
result OF the effort of the republicans
aud populs $ TO fuse, the democrats
will have an easy victory there. Even
should fusion not take place, but the
two parties work together in unison,
Mr.. Pou says the democrats will still
be able to win. He bases this belief
upon the deep undercurrent of feeling
that only through the success of the
democratic ticket can the friends OF
silver hope to accomplish anything that
will give them relief The depression
in the South is, he says, something
awful to contemplate, and the masses,
feeling that in free silver alone is their
hope of financial redemption and that
only through the election of Mr.. Bryan
can this be brought about, are preparing
to vote that ticket regardless of any
kind of deal that may be made by
the leaders of the two parties.
Representative Swanson, of the Fifth
Virginia District, called to-day to lay in
supply of literature and arrange for
beginning an active campaign in his
section of the State. According to his
views free silver has the hearts of the
whole people of Virginia. AT recent
meeting which he addressed, he said,
several of the old wheel horses OF the
republican party came forward and an
bounced their intention of voting for
BRYAN and Sewall. Ia addition TO this
he had one ex. chairman of the republi-
can executive committee, who was con-
Quoting an energetic campaign in the
State for Bryan and the platform upon
which that candidate was standing.
Senator Daniel willreturn from Europe
in time to participate in the campaign,
and it is quite probable that his voice
will be heard elsewhere than in the Old
Dominion.
Large acquisitions for campaign liter
AZURE are being daily received at dem
ocratic headquarters here from various
parts of Virginia, and the general tenor
Of the intelligence from that State is to
the effect that the people there are in
favor of giving free silver trial, just
to see how it Will act.
1t is current talk here that the finan-
cial committee of the combined anti
Bryan organization has already raised
the enormous sum of ten million dollars
with which to buy the election of Mr..
Mckinley, and that they have in view
every prominent man in the country
about whose standing on the currency,
high tariff and Income tax questions
there is any doubt. Ten million is a
heap of money, and men are very weak.
People now mere who were in New
York on the night of Mr.. Bryan's re-
ception there, say the newspapers Of
that city gave very poor and incorrect
account of its immense proportions, and
that having seen it, they are induced by