Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-11-08
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondents OF Tho AJexsndflh s7ahet'e''
Washington, November 8.

Correspondents OF tho Alexandria 9aSet'e.'
Washington, November 8.
President Mckinley arrived here
at one o'clock today from Canton, o.,
where he had gone to cast his vote. On
the return trip the President received
bulletins at every stop OF the eiection
news. AS the dispatches showed
increases of the Nash plurality from the
reports of last night the President ex,
pressed mis- pleasure at the result and
his confidence that the general vote
throughout the country would show
confidence in the administration, both
As to its Philippine policy and on the
currency question. The President talk
ed today as if he Were perfectly salts
fed with the general result. While
Nasb's plurality will probably not reach
his expectations he regards the Ohio
result as complete vincicatcn OF the
Administrations.
The republicans here are not at all
iubilanJ over the result of yesterdays
elections and really they have no cause
to be. Dispatches here today from OHIO
from republican sources, estimate the
msiority for the republican ticket all
the way from ten TO fifty thousand, aud
as it was victory or death 10 both the
President and Mr.. Hanna, and as they
had all the mo0ey they wanted to buy
success, not to have achieved it would
have been surprising. The result In
Kentucky is sill doub fu', though ex-
Senator Black burn at hall p st twelve
o'clock today sent the following dis
patch here: "Goebel is elected" The
decisive democratic victories in Mary
land aud Nebraska are especially graft
fying, as the republicans had professed
themselves as confident OF victory in
both. There is no other public talk
here today except about the result OF
Yesterdays balloting and its possible
effect upon next years Presidential
election. While the endorsement oil
Ohio is thought sufficient to secure the
denomination of Mr.. Mckinley, the
general impression among all conserva-
tives is that yesterday gave blackeye
to imperialism. La Kentucky tho re.
publican gains were along the line o
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad,
in the towns and counties through which
that road runs, its management squand
cred money in favor of the republican
ticket.
Testimony in the case of the Fort
Myer Land Company egains. the Wash
ington and Falls Church Railroad Com
pany, to compel the latter to pave its
track through the formers land, was
suspended by the commissioner here
yesterday until next Thursday.
1t is reported here that Mr.. Pitcher
of the Ssh. and some of the other Martin
men elected to the Virginia legislature
from the 7th Congressional district o.
Virginia, will vote for Mr.. Ryan fol
Speaker of the House of Delegates o.
that body, though he is an anti Martin
uan aud Mr.. Saunders, his opponent, is
strong supporter of Senator Martin.
Arguments were commenced this
afternoon in the Supreme Court in the
cases TO determine whether the ship
pers or the express companies shall paJ
the internal revenue stamp tax or
packages.
An Alexandria county man here today say
that Mr.. Donahoe didn't get as many votes
there yesterday as MIR. Hume did, for the
reason that only two names being on thu
ticket. some oil the voters. who don't take the
Gazette, thought that they were those of op
posing candidates, and therefore scratched
that OF Mr.. ponahoe, whom they did mo-
know, and left unscrstcbed that of Mr.. Hume
with whom they were well acquainted. being
a citizen of their own county. They also say
that Mr. J B. Henderson, jr., son of ex'U. 8
5enstor Henderson Of Missouri, who is now {
citizen of the county, though very rich
man, in order to show his good citiz nship
acted as judge of election at the Ballston pre-.
cinct, and earned his one dollar for that day;
work.
Admiral Dewey's marrisge licence was is-
sued today. Lieutenaat Caldwell called al
the cls rk's office and secured the document
q he admiral's age is placed at 81 and that Of
Mrs Mildred M. Hszen at 43. The lieuten-
ant in GlliDg out the blank put the admiral
down as widower and his bride to be 8
widow. The fact that tho license was issued
today is believed to indicate that the cere.
mony is to be- performed in few days.
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