Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-11-06
FROM WASHINGTON.
correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette. ]
Washington. November 3.

Minister VIZ Is Watching tuo pr
ceedings of the American people In
onoosinq their chief executive. The
Chinese legation is closed today by bis
orders and the attaches are enjoying
| holiday. while the Minister has left for
Rockville, Md, to gee the voting. DE
was accompanied by a detective ana
Two of the legation attaches, and made
the Journey on the electric cars. He
will remain there until The polls close.
Washington is probably the quietest
SPOT in the country during the election
excitement. Practically all who have
votes 10 the states have gone home to
| vote. and as a result the government
departments are conducted by but
handful of District clerks and demo-
Gratis. Ali the Cabinet officers except
Secretaries Hay and Gage have gone
home to vote. Secretaries Hay and
Gage with PROBABLY dozen invited
guests will gather at the White House
this evening to receive the returns.
| Pbey will b. 10 communication with
| Canton, New York and Chicago ny long
| distance telephone, and will receive
bulletins by wire from all important
| points. Representative Loudenslsger,
| in charg- of the branch of the republi-
can congressional committee at the
| No.mandie will receive returns there
tonight. He is al present 10 New Jer-
sew, but will re urn by an afternoon
train. Representative Richardson, chair
man of the democratic committee, will
| learn the result of the battle at the
Headquarters 10 the Metropolitan Hotel.
The two congressional committee, will
probably be the gathering points for the
adhereDts of the respective parties.
Both are expected to keep "open house"
until the fate OF the candidates is known.
Col. Montgomery 10 charge OF the tele-
graphic arrangements at the White
House said this morning that % wires,
8 cabl 6 aud telephones would be used
to receive the election news and speed
Inc 10 the President at Canton. ."All
plans were leid for the President to get
the news nere," said Col. Montgomery,
as DO first iutelded TO come on TO
Washington as soon ss be cast his bal
los. We were tnen 10 catch him at
stations along Inc route. As 1t is now
We will simply relay the news here to
Canton"
Wuile the skies we're clear when the
moruiDg reports we're sent to the
Weather Bureau dispatch received
snortly before noon announced that
there was light fall Of snow at Sault
Salute Marie, Michigan.
Gen. Macarthur at Manila reported
20 the War DEPARTMENT today the fol
lowing casualties: Killed October 30,
GEAR Guerrero, pad Lieut.. VIM. Pasco,
Co. K, 18th iniantry; Lem Meadow and
Addison Eneix. Died November 6
J stanley NJ. Stuart, assistant surgeon oil
III n ynlunteer infantry, at Santa Cruz,
Luzop. be %ss thrown from horse
and suffer, d fractured skull. Lieut..
Pssco was the SOD of ex.SeSstor fasco,
Of Florida. He was appointed TO ne
engineer corps 10 1898.
Mr.. w. II. Fairless passed through
this city today en- route to his home in
Portsmouth. II nave closed 10Y cam
paigu tour of three month";" said Mr..
Falrless, "and am feeling better than
when / started. l have spoken day
ADD night through six States to aud.
fences ranging from one thousand 10
twenty thousand people. / am not q
federal officeholder, but from a stand.
point OF true republicanism there is
none truer than l am. am not posted
On the political situation in my own
State. i have been away ever since
tue campaign opened, and l shall vote
for DIR. Wise for Congress. As to what
tne followers Of Bowden will do, can
not tell as / am not one OF his admirers.
More newly dressed strange negro
men were seen on Pennsylvania avenue
today than on any previous day for q
long time. They mad all voted the re-
publican ticket in Maryland or West
Virginia, and came here to spend the
rest of the election money they had
received.
ALI the stock and grain exchanges
and brokers' offices here and through
out the North were closed today, to
give their managers and employees an
opportunity to go home to vote, and SO
tnere. are 90 market quotations.
Rufus II Darby. life long republican and
one OF the leading printers OF Washington
m .de bet today of $500 to 800 on Bryan
He has just returned from New York, where
, ne has seen leading members Of his party.
| He says ss much a. the republicans may de.
olore it, the election of Bryan is sure.
People here today from the neighb0rlne
counties In Virginia say q full vote ia being
poiled 10 all of them, and that the negroes
whom the white people Of those counties en-
ploy, and whose chIldren they tax them.
serves TO educate, and to whom they always
. 1 II nd hn AANtf a
, cent of county or Stale tsxssssn, are taking
great delight in voting against them, and
worse still, that few white men, whose asso
Citations ought to make hem feel, and whose
education should make them know better
, are casting their bal lots tho same way.
reports here today from the election polli
in the adjoining counties Of Maryland are Il
, the feet that every negro who ever voted d
them before. or another one who an wered Il
: his name, was on hand today and voted tht
! repu blcan ticket, like q man" From tn,
whole state OF Maryland it is learned that i
Baltimore does not give 8 large republican
] majority, the State will 10 democratic.
, General Macarthur Is losing so many men
, guns, ammunition aud provisions In the Phil
] ippines, thet the War Department, has in
structed him TO change his plsn of campaign
In let or to Major Johnston, Gen. Dairy
q U. s. Vols, who has been with Gen, Chaffee'
forces says: "During the advance on Pekir
: our men suffered much from heat and lack o
: water. There wasn't breath Of air. Ever
one feared the wells and pei-ho water so tbs
the men were restricted to what boiled wate
q they started with in the mornng-a canteev
full"
Az the democratic congressional committe,
headquarters today u Wa stated that if tn,
democrats have r.nrsiity OF even ono yot,
In Cincinnati Bryan will csrry OHIO. 1t wa
SAID, Too, that The outlook in Illinois is bright
or han 10 Ohio The esumste was given ou
Q thatit the democrats carry Chicago by 10000