Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1900-10-03

from the original position taken by
that government on the SUD-
iect OF the punishment OF those
resnonsbIe for the aDtl-forelgn OUT
RACES. The new note Is SAID
TO suggest, however, that the powers
should name the punishment to be In.
Acted upon those fouod guilty Of in
citing the attack. The State depart
ment has received the new French note
which was made public yesterday from
Vienna. Answers to both France and
Germany will probably be prepared
and transmitted after the Cabinet
meeting, which according to the pres.
ent programme Is to be held on Friday
when the President is expected to be
10 Washington.
New York democrats here today say
the people OF that State are tired OF old,
a. well as OF new wars, and that the
trsnspsrencies NEBRASKA, with inscrlp-
lions to the effect That the men in the
PROFESSIONS will vote as they did In
| 1850, will do The republican tiket IN
their State no good.
The Catholics here, who are not sd-
mirers of Archbishop Ireland, say MS
declared intention OF supporting mr.
Mckinley will do the President no
good, especially as they understand
that Cardinal Gibbons. while not snVo-
eating the election of anybody, Will Do
likely to vote for Mr.. Bryan.
A democratic politician from Virginia
here TODAY says all the native born Vir-
ginians who left the democratic party
on the gold question, who had any poll
ricsl influence, have seen their error OF
their way, aud have come Dack 10 IT,.
Colonel Charles Marshall, of General II.
f. Lees staff is the last one to do 80,
and he does 40, be says, in very explicit
and emphatic terms.
1t is reported here that the famous
Mr.. Eugene Debs, the socialistic Presi'
Dental nominee, mas now joined the
"bloated bondholdels" and withdrawn
in favor of Mr.. McKinley-of course for
a consideration, some in hand and some
ss contingent fee.
General Ftzhugh Lee did not 60 to
Richmond yesterday as reported, but
has gone TO Warrenton on a visit to
his friend, General w. H. Payne.
At the brokers' offices here today
stocks are quoted weak, but wheat,
corn and cotton as strong.
From West Virginia it is learned that
the hopes of the democrats there are very
high n Nv, and that they are confident
OF carrying that State by satisfactory
majority. Kapawha county will, they
say, give them large majority, and
that that will secure the legislature.
Many influential republicans in other
parts of the State, the Billiards. of Mon
roe, for instance, have declared for
Bryan and are now working for him
with all their might and main, though
they have previously opposed him Wig
orously.
An intelligent man of affairs here to-
day, not at all interested In politics,
who has spent the summer at The wa
terin2 places in the North aud in New
York, Gays that almost every where
there, the election OF a democratic
/ House of Representatives is conceded,
and that the Presidential contest is
deemed doubtful.
Mayor Jones. of Galveston, has telegraph
the War Department announcing the arrival
there OF the steamer Mcpherson with cargo
of relief supplies which, the Mayor says, will
be distributed to the destitute sufferers from
the great food. Tbs dispatch also conveys
the thanks Of the city council, and of the re-
lief committee to the President I'd Acting
Secretary of War Meiklejohn.
The many frieLds Of Attorney General
Montague Of Virginia Washington are exceed,
ingly provoked at an article concerning him
in one Of the newspapers Of this city yester.
day, aud say he has no reason to complain OF
the treatment he has received from the dem
ocratic committee Of his State, and that when
he hss, he will not 90 outside OF Virginia, and
to a republican newspaper, to do 90.
Congressman Rhes of Virginia was here
yesterday. He says the republicans are ex-
ertiDg their supremest efforts to defeat his
re election: have speakers on the stump in
every county and don't seem to be lacking
in money. But that the majority of the peo-
pie in his district are opposed to trusts, high
tariff, and imperialism, and to the attempts
that have been made to deprive him of his
seat, and that he thinks he will be reelected
by an increased majority. He also says sew.
ersl Influential republicans Of that district
are giving him their support.