Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-20
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
WASHINGTON. July 20.

EX-COn8resSman Camlneltl, OF JAIL
fornia, who was delegate to the ma
tional democratic convention, is here
to-day, on his way home from Boston,
to which city he went after leaving
Chicago. He says the Pacific slope IS
practically solid for free silver, and
that, to his great surprise, he found that
the free silver feeling is prevalent in
Boston and throughout all the New
England States, Ex-Governor Davis OF
Rhode Island having recently declared
for the Chicago ticket.
Mr.. Richardson, editor of the Atlanta
Journal, gold paper, now here, says
it is not worth while to fight free silver
any longer in his State, as it is bound to
sweep that State by an immense ma
iority, and that Mr.. Crisp will be the
next q. s. Senator from Georgia with
out doubt.
The President has committed to i'm
prisonment for life the death sentence
of Jno. c. Bell, of Texas. He has also
committed to Imprisonment for life the
death sentences of Tom Davis and
Taylor Hickman, Indian boys. The
former is IA years of age and the lat
ter IS.
Congressman Jones, of the Fred
ericksburg, Virginia, district, is here to
day, on his way to Charles City, where
the democratic congressional conven-
ton of his distrlci W Ill be held to-mor-
row, and by which he will be unani-
mously renominated. He says free sill
yer is all the 60 in his district and that
the convention to which he is going will
endorse both the platform and the
ticket of the national democratic con-
yen:ion. He says that so far as he
knows the gold delegates to the Chica,
60 convention from Virginia were per-
fectly satisfied with the treatment they
received at Chicago, and that one oil
them has written to him to that effect.
Mr.. Jones says that from all he sees
and hears he can't help believing that
the national democratic ticket will be
elected by large majority.
Within the inner circles of the demo
| cratic party here it is thought that the
national headquarters Of the party may
be located in this city, and known that
Senator German will be one of the di-
rectors of the campaign. 1t is also
known that Senator Hill having so con-
triyed it that both the President and
Mr.. Whitney, neither of whom has he
any cause to love, have been left out
side the democratic breastworks, he
will go in heart and soul for the sue
cess of the Chicago ticket, as he said he
would do in his speech in the U. S.
Senate in reply to Senator Tillman's.
Senator Harris, Representative Allen,
and MIR. Andrew Lipscomb, the latter
of Alexandria county, will deliver adj
dresses at Marshall Hall when the Vir-
ginis democratic association of this city
shall 90 there next Wednesday even
ing. The boat for that place will stop
at Alexandria going and coming.
When the voters of this country
know that the maintenance of the gold
standard has, during the last three years,
cost them, who pay the taxes, more than
the enormous sum of five hundred mil
lion dollars, they will be more disposed
than ever to try the experiment of free
silver. The gold reserve in the Treasury
is rapidly decreasing. Another large
sum was withdrawn to-day for export,
and such Withdrawals are confidently
expected to continue. Another large
issue of bonds is therefore looked
for at an early date, and if it be-,
it will be worth another million
of votes TO the democratic ticket.
The gold at noon had been reduced to
500, Isl, 636. In the absence of both
the President and Secretary Carlisle
from Washington no expression Of
opinion can be obtained from them, but
Treasury officials who possess their
confidence do not hesitate to say that
there will be no change in the attitude
of the administration towards the gold
reserve and that if necessary to main
tain it, another bond issue will be re-
sorted to when the reserve reaches the
point where further action is rendered
imperative.
w. II. Washington yesterday beat the
record of bicycle riding between Balti.
more and this city, making the trip in
two hours and fifteen minutes.
The cars on the new electric railroad
that run from here to Ballston, Va,
were crowded all day yesterday.
A Virginia democrat here to-day says
he believes half the negroes there will
vote the Chicago ticket, as they say
that ticket means more circulation, and
that il there be more circulation, some
of it may get into their pockets, where
precious little of it is now.