Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1896-07-01
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence of tho Alexandria Gazotte.]
WASHINGTON. July l.

CORRESPONDENCE Of tho Alexandra dazette.J
WASHINGTON. July l.
Some of the ex- Confed crates from the
far South who came to the great Con.
federate reunion in Richmond, awaited
themselves of the present opportunity
to come here and see the city they
longed to capture during the war, and
would have done at its commencement,
except for General Joseph Johnston.
They will 90 back to the capital of the
late Confederate States, however, this
evening and appear in the procession
there tomorrow.
Owing to the great number OF people
who have gone from here to Richmond
and to Chicago and to summer resorts,
the streets, hotels and other public
places present q comparatively deserted
appearance to-day. Business, too, is
said by all the merchants, except the
few who sell cheap dry goods, to be
fduller than ever before.
1t is rumored that Senator Carter OF
Montana, ex-chairman OF the national
republican committee, who left here
last night for his home, intimated be-
fore starting that he might be found
acting with the free silver men who
bolted the st. Louis convention, for the
reason that the majority of the republic
cans in his State favor free silver coin
age.
There is no doubt of the fact that the
republican politicians now here, hail
ing, as they do, from different parts OF
the country, are very much alarmed at
what they term the extraordinary and
inexplicable spread of the free silver
idea in all the States, North, as we'll as
West and South, and among the voters
of their own party as well as among
democrats. They say they know hun
dreds of republicans in their own home
neighborhoods who will vote for the
free silver candidate, no matter whom
he may be, and that the bankers seem
to have, some how or other, arrayed
the working people against them, and
that the result of such a fight is not
hard to anticipate, as there are so
many of the latter that it will be i'm
possible to buy enough OF them to
change the result.
Ex-Representative Ben. T. Gable, of
Illinois, was in the city last night. on
his way to Chicago, via the Virginia hot.
Springs, whera his-1s family are soiourn-
ing tar-at time. Mr.. Cable is gold
man and takes a gloomy view of the
prospects at Chicago, speaking OF the
coming convention as a "sorrowful
tragedy" "Whom will they nominate
for President, Mr. Cable?" was asked.
so, Bland, I suppose" he answered.
II see no hope of escaping that result"
A Southern delegate to the st. Louis
convention, now here, says the Reed
people there had no money, and If
thew had, they would have been foolish
to use it. as Mr.. Manley had given
their favorite away, and that though
the Morton men had some, they knew
that Mckinley held the winning hand,
and therefore refused to spend it, and
that as Mckinley didn't need the
"brothers in black" they were much in
evidence at the Morton headquarters.
open for business, but got nothing, and
therefore returned with as light pockets
as when they went there, to their evil
dent disappointment and great disgust.
An international money order has
been established at Suffolk, Virginia,
and money order offices at Blackstone,
Colonial Beach and Hallsboro, in the
same State.
People from Richmond here to-day
say Mr.. John s. Wise, whose expressed
harsh feelings toward the people of his
Slate have not changed since he Joined
the republican party and moved North,
is there, participating in the Confeder-
ate reunion.