Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1897-11-10
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS.

The Washington correspondent Of
the Richmond Dispatch in dispatch
dated yesterday says:
General James A. Walker is here TO
attend the meeting of the machine e1.
ecutive committee, of which he is a
member. The committee met this
evening, and as General Walker has
his friend, ex-Congressman Bowen.
of Tszewell county, with him, it looks
as if he were going to make fight for
the marshalship OF the western district
for Bowen. A day or two ago General
Walker conceded that that Office would
go to S. Brown Allen, to whom it had
been promised by Mark Hanna as long
ago as the st. Louis convention. The
presence here, however, Of Mr.. Bowen
gives rise to the suspicion that General
Walker has again changed front on the
marshalship, and that be will renew
his antagonism to his fellow-members
of the executive committee.
Col. Brady and Mr. Brown Allen.
who are also members OF the machine
committee, were in consultation all
last evening and again this morning.
They we're joined this morning BY
national committeeman Geo. E. Bow.
den, and the trio visited the Pos.office
Department, where they were endeay.
oring to have filed the places of fif cen
fourth.class postmasters, whose terms
are about to expire, and they are likely
to be successful.
There is no indication that the Wick.
ham committee will put in an appear.
aDce just yet. The absurd proposition
Of General Walker to hold another con-
vention to decide which ofthe two com.
mittees represents the party, or 10
choose new committee, is laughed at
by the other members of the machine
organization. The claim that the Nc.
Caull ticket got $4,000 votes in the State
at the recent election is also disputed.
and the assertion is made thatit did not
get 10000, which would be only frag.
ment of the full vote of the State. Tie
outlook now is that if General Walker
insists Cd Bowen for marshal he NAV
fail in securing the district attorney
ship for his friend, Mr.. J. L. G caves,
and that plum may go to one of the
other aspirants for the place, and per-
heps 10 Mr.. ]. Hampton Hoge.
At the meeting of the republican
executive committee all the members
were present except Judge Edmund
Waddill, who was kept away by urgent
business. Chairman Park Agnew pre-
sided and party affairs were discussed.
1t was agreed that conciliatory ad,
dress should be issued to the republi-
caps of Virginia, and, strange TO say,
General Walker was chosen to write
the address.
There was more or less friction with
the Congressman from the Ninth dis
trict, but it is understood that he has
again come into the traces with the reg
ular committee
The marshalship and the Office of
United State attorney for the western
district OF the State were not brought
up, and the situation in regard to them
remains the same as above stated. Post
Office appointments, mainly in the
Seventh congressional district, were
talked of and recommendations for
quite number agreed upon, to be SUBJ
mitted to Mr.. Bowden, who is the
referee in those cases as national COM
Other matters may have
been informally discussed, but nothing
further of this remarkable executive
session TRANSFERRED.