Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1898-09-07
At fine banonet at the Metropolitan

At the banquet at Tue MelTopolilau
Hotel given by the druggists of this
CITY to the members of the national
druggists convention who were here
Yesterday, the reception address was
delivered by Mr.. R. \. Harper.
1t is reported at the War Department
to day that the pressure for an investi-
CATION of the gross Encouragement of
the army has become so great that the
President will be compelled to direct
that one be made.
Several kilograms were sent from
here to-day to the presiding officer of
the G. A. R., convention in Cincinnati,
urging the adoption of resolution
recommending the construction of q
bridge aero IS the Potomac at Airing
ton, as sucn a bridge will, it is sup
posed, secure the completion of Mount
Vernon avenue
Representative Rhea OF Kentucky
who has been campaigning in Virginia
arrived here this morning. He says
the democrats in the Petersburg dis
trict are united and are confident OF
success, while the republicans are di-
vided and respondent, and in danger
OF losing their only strength, the ne
groes, In the Norfolk district, he says,
the election of Young, the democratic
candidate, is conceded even by repubi-
cans, and would be effected il the repub'
| leans were united, but that they are now
so divided that nothing can bring them
together again. 10 the 9th district, be
hears that Mr. Walker, the republican
candidate, has strong opposition in his
own party and that every indication
points to his defeat.
President Mckinley this morning ac-
cepted an invitation to attend the
peace Jubilee at Chicago on October Is
and 10.
Mr.. John Wise is here to-day. He
is highly grstified at the action OF the
republican congressional campaign com
mittee yesterday in sustaining his
brother, Congressman Wise, in the Nor
folk district, but the Bowden men say
the committee didn't know what they
were doing, and will find out before
long that the administration is with
them and the republican committee o.
the State, and that the latter are merely
doing what they and the committee o
the old Lamb faction OF the party agreed
should be done. Mr.. Wise was Wis
itor at the War Department. Like al
the other New York republicans he die
not care to be quoted on Empire State
politics. He admitted, however, thai
| there was very strong demand among
the people for the nomination of Col
Roosevelt for Governor.
, Secretary Alger was in conference
with the President for more than an
hour about noon to-day. Upon leaving
the White House he said in answer tc
question as to whether there would
be an investigation of his department.
that he knew of none. He would not
ask for one, he said, because to do &c
would be to admit that there was some
thing wrong, IfOongress should order
an investigation it would be satisfactory
TO him. He was willing, he said, 10
have searchlight turned upon all the
sections of his department in the man
agement of the war.
Mr.. Wharton Barker, the populist
nominee for President, and Mr. Don
nelly, whom they have nominated fol
Vice President, are we'll known here
the former as once the partner OF Count
Mitkiewicz, and the latter as the discov-
srer of the author of Shakespeare
PLAYS and as the first man who evel
had the original poem of enormous
length printed in the Congressiona
; Record.
Representative Jones of Virginia to day
completed the last page Of the democratic
'smpsign b8ok, foF use by the democrat
5ell-binders this fall. andwill 90 to Tapps
hammock in his own district. where he vii
speak Tomorrow. Tie book will he printed
By the 18th instant.
A royal Spanish ensign captured by United
States troops at Csomo, Porto Rico, on August
8, was presented to the President to-day b5
q committee of soldiers.