Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazette,

WASHINGTON. July so.
Lieut.. Lee Hclcombe, U. S. navy.
now at San Francisco, who has been in
bad health for year, has been ordered
before retiring board.
An intelligent Irish business man of
this city, who was once a republican,
but is now an independent, says he
thinks Bryan will be elected, for the
reason that neither Harrison nor Cleve-
land was of any good to the country.
and that the people want change.
Secretary Herbert, who says he can't
vote for free silver democratic candi-
date for President of the United States,
will leave here this evening tor Ala
bama, to vote for free silver demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of that
State.
Some of the republicans here are
very much put out with Mr.. Reed for
the speech he made in Maine yester-
day. They say they know that some
of his friends here are still sore over his
defeat for the nomination, and that his
speech reads very much as if his sup
port of the ticket is not as earnest as it
might be.
The national committee of the popu.
lists has decided to make Washington
the headquarters of that organization.
The campaign literature stored at
various places has been shipped to this
city. James A. Edgerton, of Nebraska,
secretary of the committee, is expected
here, and Senator Marion Butler, of
North Carolina, chairman of the COM
mittee, will also be here as much as
possible. The indications at present
are that the democratic and national
silver party committees will also make
their headquarters in Washington city.
The silverites are DESTROYS of having
headquarters in the same city as the
national democratic committee, and in
case the democrats decide upon some
other place they may alter their plans.
The courtmartial which has been
trying Lieut.. J. G. Colwell, of the ram
Katahdin at the New York navy yard,
has acquitted him of the charge brought
against him growing out of his alleged
assault on a waiter at New London
recently.
Among the callers at democratic
headquarters here to-day was Judge
Terry, democratic congressman from
Arkansas. He has been in Front Royal
Va, since Congress adjourned. He says
there are good many gold democrats
in that section, but that without a sim
gle exception, so far as he heard, every
one of them will do all he can to secure
the election of the democratic ticket.
He doesn't remember the names, but
heard there were several republicans in
that district who intend to vote the
free silver ticket. Congressman Rusk
of Baltimore was also there. He says
that all the counties in Maryland are
right, but that most of the banking
and commercial men of Baltimore are
against the Chicago ticket. Another
Baltimorean in private life who had
heard what Mr.. Rusk said, Subsequent
" remarked that the bankers aud COM
mercial men may be against the ticket,
but that of his own knowledge he knew
that the workingmen of Baltimore are
for it almost to a man, and that, too,
lTTSSpOClltO VI taO way - WhASA ShSS
have previously voted.
One Of the press agents here, re-
publican, who has been travelling in
the West, says there is no use in blink
ing the fact that the silver feeling seems
to have possessed all the people of that
section, republicans as well as demo-
Gratis, and it looks now as if Illinois
and moat alI the other large Western
States would 60 for Bryan.
Mr.. George G. Gorhsm. formerly ed
itor of the late Washington Republicen,
ex.Secretary of the U. S. Senate, and
informed concerning the
condition of the republican party in all
the States, says Bryan will sweep the
country, and will even carry the State
of New York, the great gold standard
centre.
The Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue states that the receipts from all
sources of internal revenue for the year,
aggregated SAG, $50, SIS, being an in
crease of s., 5S4 ,537 over the last fiscal
yeer. The sources of revenue We're
Spirits sS0,G70,070. an increase of $50.
AS; tobacco $50, I'll, 500, an increase of
81 ,006, 721; fermented liquors $50, 7S4..
0oE or iDoroasa nf 80 10 c1S o.