Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1902-08-30
FROM WASHINGTON.

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Correspondence of the Alexandria Gazette
Il is believed here that the republi-
cans in other southern States are deS-
tined to follow the lead OF Senator
Pritchard and the North Carolinr mem
bers of their party in eliminating the
re ,ro from their councils and to limit
his utility exclusively to voting IN cleo
tions-only this and nothing more.
This. too, is believed to be the WISH Of
President Roosevelt who desires to
build up white republican party III Tue
South He believes that the elimination
of the negro will do much toward bring
ing about the desideratum. The lily
whites of the party in Virginia nave
shown disposition to ignore the negro
for some time, and now that their North
Carolina brethren have thrown OIL
their masks and showed their
hands the movement will be more
pronounced in the Old Dominion
and finally become general through
ont the South. The Bowden-Agnew
wing have long since in their hearts
tired of the negro ghost, but, OF course,
they take good care to be non-commlttal;
Senator Pritchard is stalking his political
chances on white accessions to the re-
publican party in North Carolina. ne
knows so long as negroes are sprlnkled
about in his party gatherings many
white men will keep aloOf, no matter
how logical and practical some OF his
party's principles may be. The pres
ence of the blacks alone will be enough
to make the majority of southern people
vote the democratic ticket. The presence
of the negro is believed by many repub-
licans in Virginia to be the cause of the
stinted growth of their party.
Representative Livingston, of Georgia,
the ranking democrat on the House
committee on appropriation is in the
city on official business for his district.
He was at democratic headquarters yester
day and made arrangements for cam
paign tour of Maine. awe will carry
the next House." said Mr.. Livingston
last evening, "but in order to do so every
democrat in the country must get out
and hustle 1t won't pay to be over
confident and take everything for grant
ed. The President is strengthening the
democratic party by every speech
he makes. When Congress was in ses-
sion we called attention to the trusl
question and gave the republicans every
opportunity to legislate. And when VIC
opposed antitrust amendments to thC
Cuban tariff bill the republicans voted
against them. Now the President Il
saving something ought to be done t.
control the trusts,
Asst. Secy. Taylor has notified Col
lector Stratton of the port of San Fran
ciso to permit the transfer Of 25O
Chinese sailors now aboard the Gaelic to
the Korea. The Korea, with her Chinese
crew. will start on her maiden trip to-
DIV. Acting Attorney General Boyd,
who asked by the Treasury Department
to decide the points of law raised by the
protests of the sailors Union of San
Francisco against the transfer of this
crew, has held, that there is no viola
ton of the contract labor laws or the
immigration laws involved. the Chinese
in question were shipped by the Pacific
Mail and Steamship Co., for the round
trip of the Pekin, from China to the
United States and return. On the way
to the United States the Pekin was dis
abled in japanese waters. Tie Com
PAW transferred the crew to the Gaelic,
intending to bring them back on the
Korea, new ship built here for the
company. A protest was made but has
now been oyerruled.
The Chinese government has requested
the State Department to take some ac-
ton with regard to the outrage perpe-
trated upon Chinese subjects at Baker
CT, Oregon, August 8. A crowd OF
hoodIums set upon some Chinese, three
of whom were shot and others badly IL
jured.
Minister Powell, at Port au Prince,
has cabled the State Department under
Yesterdays date to the effect that severe
fighting began in the neighborhoOd OF
Cape Hatien on Thursday and was con-
tinuing at the time he filed the dispatch.
There had been great loss on both sides
and the towns of Marmalade and Lainbe
had been totally destroyed. The goyern-
ment army is under the command OF
Gen. Nord and Gen. Juneau is at the
head of the revOlutiOnists.
Min. Bowen telegraphs the Depart
ment of State from Caracas that victory
has been announced by the Venezuelan
government over the revolutionary adj
vance guard near Qua. The blockade
of the Orinoca river has been declared
ineffective by the Holland government.
In order to keepup the price of Banan-
as in the United States by limiting i'm
portations, fruit purchasers have found
it necessary to destroy large qualities
of production In Honduras, for in
stance, U. S. Consul Alger reports that
in his di. t.ict in the month ofJuly $780,
90 bur ches of Bananas were shipped to
New Orleans and Mobile, while 100, 600
were paid for and destroyed by the con-
tractors. Enough fruit was lost through
failure to find purchasers to bring the
total production in that district up to
800, 900 punches. This yield will be
nearly doubled next year when the new
plantations come into production.
1t is again rumored here that the re-
moyal at an early date of the freight de-
partment offices of the Southern Railway
from this city to Atlanta will be but the
beginning of the transfer of all the other
departments to that city, and that the
company will sell its Office building here
to the government.
The remains of the late Reese c. De-
Grafenreid, Z. S. Representative from
Texas, who died suddenly at the Riggs