Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-09-21

shall be elected, he Philippine war be
stopped, the tariff he reduced and the
people have mouey. Mr.. Button, sec
rotary Of the Virginia dem ocratic state
committee, says Senator Martin VIII
have no less tnuu Une hundred ana ten
members of the democratic legislative
caucus. and that the so-called indepen-
dent candi iates will cut q snail figure
in the election. Most OF the democrats
from Virginia hers look upon the indie
pendents as republicans in disguise, but
saw they won't amount TO any thing.
B. Taylor was appointed postmas'
ter at Laedstown, Wesmoreland coun-
ty, Va, today, vice Joseph Baxter, re-
moved.
The Postoffice Department today is
sued fraud order against the Ex-Slave
Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension AS
sociation: | H. Dickerson, Ma ional
Manager; Rev D. d McNairy National
Presiden E-v. n Smith, Nationel
Secretary; Mrs. Cattle House National
Assistant Secretary, and Rev. H Head,
National Treasurer, Nashville, Tenn.
1t is known that remittances aggregat-
iug large amount have been thus OBJ
tanned by the officers OF the association,
whose high sounding titles impress the
negroes with the idea that the wearers
| WELD tremendous influence in the
affairs of the nation, all of which funds
have been expended by the officers in
the way of salaries and expenses of
themselves and members OF their fami-
lies employed in clerical capacities,
Mr.. William Holmead, q prominent
democrat of this city, will, it is said, be
the probable member of the national
democratic committee from the District
of Columbia MIR. Holmead and Mr..
Nailor of this city were the two ma
lional bank directors here who in 1896
successfully protested against the pay
ment of the assessment put upon their
banks for the republican campaign fund.
President Black of the national associa-
ton of democratic clubs yesterday ap
pointed Mr.. Robert Miller of this city
secretary of that association, vice the
late Lawrence Gardiner.
Ex-Congressman Brown of the Dan
vile, Virginia, district, has been ap-
pointed deputy collector of internal
revenue at his home town.
Congressman Berry of Kentucky is
here today. Ke says the republican
ticket will be elected there, but Mr.
Berry has not been in entire accord
with his party for some time, and Ken
tuckians here say he talks the way he
wishes it to be.
The republicans and their President
and Mr.. Hanna are so alarmed at the
prospect of democratic victory in
Ohio at the coming election there that
Mr.. Mckinley will go there and make
several speeches during the canvass,
but republicans from that Stale now
here say that it will require more than
any speeches he can make to Offset the
republican antagonism Mr.. Hanna has
evoked there, and that unless there be
"a flood of money there, the jig is up
with their party.
Surgeon General Wyman received q
telegram from Key West stating that
IS new cases OF yellow fever had de
veloped there today.
a delegation OF Norfolk people were here
today and, escorted by Senator Martin, went
to the Navy Department and the White
House to have sn order issued by which the
| Olympia and some of the other ships to take
! part in the Dewey reception at New York,
can be sent TO Hampton Roads after that re.
ception, not only for drilling purposes, but to
show that the government is convinced that
the yellow fever has been entirely ersdicated
from that region if 1t ever did exist there
iast summer. They were given to understand
that whatever could be done for them, would
b..
The War Department now comedies that
catholic churches in the Philippines have
been sacked and looted, but attempts to have
it appear that they were occupied by the ma
lives as places of safety, from which they had
to be expelled by the army, which could not
be done without necessarily iujuring them.
The u. 5. soldiers when they defed the
churches in the South offered no excuse for
doing so.