Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-08-22
FROM WASHINGTON.
lCorezpondence Of the Alexandria Gazette

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Der.
Among the callers al democratic
headquarters to-day was Mr.. Button,
secretary OF the democratic committee
of Virginia, who was there making ar
rangements for securing campaign lit
erature. Mr.. Button says the reported
detection of the gold democrats Of his
State Is greatly exaggerated. that it has
no existence outside of the cities, and is
only appreciate in Richmond, where it
is by no means az formidable as report
ed. There is, be says, gold club,
strange as it may seem, composed
of employees of the C. & 0. r. r., but
they have been coerced into joining
it, resent the advantage that has been
taken OF them by their employers, and
will avail themselves of the new cleo
ton law in order to get even Mr.. But
ton says that all the intelligence re-
ceived at MS committees head
quarters in Richmond is to the
effect that Virginia will give a
large majority for the national demo
cratic ticket and that free silver il the
popular cry throughout the State. He
also says that the 9Th Congressional
district there, that now represented By
General Walker, republican, will
surely send democrat 10 the
next Congress. In respect Of the
republican talk OF a discussion Of the
currency question between Senator
Daniel and ex Governor Cameron, Mr.
Button says nothing Of the kind will
take place, as the democratic com
mittee will not permit the Senator TO
20 on the stump against the ex-Gov-
ernor, or any other man in the paid sei'
vice OF the national republican party.
Mr.. Il. C. Bell, deputy commissiont
OF the pension bureau, who has SPOKE n
in Alexandria during the campaign,
ard who is one of the clearest ex-
poundera OF free silver in the country,
will speak on that subject 10 Leesburg,
Virginia. next Wednesday.
Secretary Carlisle returned to Wash
ington last night from his visit to the
President at Gray Gables, and resumed
duty at the Treasury Department this
morning. The Secretary refused to
discuss his stay in New York yesterday
or to say whether or not his talk with
members of The house OF ]. Pierport
Morgan and other fnanciers had any
significance.
Mr.. John Boyle, chairman Of the
local committee on invitation, having
ia charge the ratification meeting TO be
held in this city, received letter from
Mr.. Bryan this morning in which
among other things he says: II will
stop 10 Washington on my way from
the South to New England. l cannot
fix the date, but hope it will not be
long after the Goth OF September.
will let you know as soon as the date is
fixed positively.
The fact that the Western Union
Telegraph Company and the Bell Tele-
phone Company have recently pooled
their isgueg aud pocketed nine million
dollars az profits last year will, it is
aaid here, tend greatly to increase the
vote Of the anti-monopoly ticket.
Dir. McCaull, the republican candi-
date for Congress- in the Alexandria,
Virginia, district, wag here today. He
lays in his district the fight is between
the classes and the masses, and that he
heads the latter. He will, he says,
make an active canvass of his district,
and if he can get no conveyance, will
do 30 on foot, for which purpose be has
bought a $1.85. pair OF stout walking
shoes.
The alleged trouble between the dem
ocratic and the populistic headquarters
here reported in the goldite newspapers
of this city has no existence in fact and
the two headquarters are getting along
as we'll as if they were parts of the same
machine. It is said at the former that
Mr.. German could not well have been
present at the grand Bland meeting at
Laurel last night as he was then at
Saratoga, where he has been for two
weeks. When he returns he will pre-
side at the first meeting to be held to
ratify the nomination of Bryan and
Sewall, and will assist democratic
headquarters here with his counsel and
advice, which are highly estimated
there. It is said there that while the
republicans and the oddities will make
desperate exertions to carry Maryland,
the free silver feeling in that State is
evidently too strong to be Offset by
money.
The report printed in a newspaper Of
this city to the effect that the Mt. Yer
non railroad intends to purchase the
Falls Church railroad is incorrect. The
former road has not as many cars as
it might have, and has made arrange
nents with the latter to hire from it for
a short time such extra cars as it may
have use for. In respect Of the Mt.
Vernon road, it is said at the Office OF the
company that it is doing as well as was
expected, that the stopping places in
Alexandria were located by the people
of that city, and that the street service
there has been ordered to be as perfect
as possible, and that if those orders
are not obeyed, report to that effect
made to the central Office will cause
them to be instanter.
Assistant Secretary Hamlin, of the
Treasury Department, left here this al
ternoon for Marion, Mass. He will be
principal speaker at the convention
Tuesday next of the gold democrats in
Massachusetts. Mr.. Hsmlin last week
had an extended conference with
President Cleveland at Buzzard's Bay,
and as he has carefully prepared his
address, It is believed it will indirectly
reflect the vie%s of the President on
the third party movement,
Twelve hundred voters from New