Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-09-17
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette J
WASHINGTON, Sept. II

General Eppa Hunton was at dee o.
cratic headquarters to-day. He has
been campaigning in his State for the
democratic ticket: Everywhere |
po.n he said, 1.-The same condi-
tons are apparent, & lively inter-
est in the great issue of this
campaign on the part of the democrats,
and increased and increasing accesslons
to the Chicago ticket from the republi-
cans. l spoke in Stafford yesterday.
Tomorrow | am going to speak for
Blair Lee at Buckleystown, Md. Any
majority for Bryan 10 Virginia less than
$4,000 would surprise me. in Stafford,
which went against us four hundred at
the last election, the republicans only
claim 1.-TWO hundred now Similar
news is expressed in q letter from MIR.
Button, secretary of the democratic
State committee of Virginia, who claims
also solid democratic congressional
delegation from that State. Mr.. D. Z.
Banks, secretary of the democratic
committee of Bland county, writes II
live in republican county, in repub-
lican district, but we are going to carry
it for silver this year.
A Pennsylvania here to-day, engaged
in the coal trade, says the coal trust,
which has raised the price of coal SLOT
ton, has not only reduced the price Of
the labor it employs 20 per cent. and
put its men on half time, but have
also made reduction of 80 cents ton
on vessel freight.
A goldite here to-day, familiar with
Connecticut affairs, said he was in high
spirits yesterday, but was depressed to-
day because he had read a dispatch
stating that John B. Sargent, proprie'
tor of the largest hardware manufactur.
ing establishment in that State, had &C,
cepted the democratic nomination fol
Governor and supports the Chicago
platform and ticket. when men like
Sargent" he said, Sin Connecticut &C
into this silver movement, I'm afraid
the jig's up and that Bryan will be
elected" Mr.. Sargent is true blue
democrat. He is the man who appear
cd before the committee that framed
the Mckinley bill and said that if the
tariff on raw material were removed
be would guarantee to double the ca
pacity of his establishment and to give
his employees permanent work.
Though MIR. Ross, the so.called dem
ocratic, commissioner of the District o
Columbia, though he has declined to b'
one of the vice presidents of the demo
critic ratification meeting to be helt
here next Saturday evening-for pru
Dental reasons, either has, or will. hi
friends say, subscribe to the democratic
fund.
Judge Rixey returned last night from
Stafford Court House, Virginia, where
he and General Hunton and MIR. An
| drew Lipscomb spoke yesterday. HI
said democratic prospects are bright II
Stafford, and that though that is re
publican county, owing to the large
colored vote there, the democrats vii
make considerable gains, as free silver
is strong there. He said the gold bolt
ers would cut no figure there.
Mr.. Bryan, on his way TO this city
next Saturday, will stop for shor
time in Alexandria and make speech
there.
The history of Senator Palmer, the
gold boilers candidate for President
during the period of his military gov
ernorship Of Kentucky, after the close
of the war between the States, which
mas been prepared, shows, among many
other outrageous things, that one o
the men he hanged, on the alleged
ground that he had been a guerilla
was a regularly enlisted Confederate
soldier, and, what's more, member o.
General Buckner's command. And
now General Buckner is running with
him on the assistant republican ticket!
Why Mr.. Carlisle should have writ
ten the remarkable letter alluded to in
Yesterdays GAZETTE is still a puzzle
here to republicans as well as demo
Gratis. They cannot, for the life of them,
understand how silver, redemption
money, can be used for redeemable pur-
poses, or, if that were possible, how half
a billion of such money could be re-
deemed with one hundred millions OF
gold.
telegram was received at the War De-
partment to day announcing the death OF
Capt George S. Hoyt, Qnartermaster, ct Hell
ena, Mont, this morning from apoplexy.
&. A. Samsell was appointed postmaster at
Stephens City, Frederick county, Va, to-day,
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