Evening star., 1953-06-20
Foes Of Dalton
Launch Drive
AtConVention
BroyhiII Leads Fight
Against Nomination
For Governor
By Alex R. Preston
SiaE Steff cerrssnendent


parts of the State to draft State
Senator Ted Dalton for the
gubernatorial nomination.
The Arlington, Alexandria anc
Fairfax delegates were holding
caucuses as the convention op.
ened and each group was trying
to agree on the name Of a favor.
ite son candidate to put ur
against Mr.. Dalton.
The Arlington caucus passed
q resolution to support a favorite
son, preferably B. M. Hedrick
former trial justice.
BrOyhiII Opposes Dalton.
The opposition was being LED
by Representative Broyhill of the
Tenth District and the district
Republican chairman, I. Let
Potter. Mr.. Broyhill stated flat
ly that he was opposed to the
nomination of Mr.. Dalton who
seemed. to have the backing OF
opposing factions elsewhere in
the state.
One group wants Mr.. Dali
ton to win. The other sees
nothing but inglorious de-
feat in store from the Democrats
in November and hopes this will
knock him OF as an influential
party leader. Mr.. Dalton who
also is national committeeman,
has been shying away from the
nomination for some months but
now admits:
II wouldn't let the party down
IN a pinch"
Arlington Man in Line.
Stephen D. Timberlake, Staun-
ton attorney and real estate
man. appeared to be in line for
the nomination for Lieutenant
Governor, while the name of
Oren r. Lewis, Arlington lawyer.
figured most prominently in pre-
convention talk about the par
ties candidate for attorney
general.
Mr.. Dalton and his fellow
members of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, State Senator
Floyd Landreth, who also is
State party chairman, and Mrs.
Emily Logan of Woodstock, along
with Virginia's three Republican
members of Congress, are the OBJ
jects of most of the intra-party
discord over dispensing political
plums from Washington. Since
the Eisenhower administration
took over, some top-level ap-
pointments from Virginia still
seem to favor the Democrats.
Other political undercurrentS
playing through the largest
G. o. P. convention in the States
history involve unhealed wounds
from last years Eisenhower-Taft
wrangle, tie-inS with the Demo-
cratic machine headed by Sena-
tor Byrd and failure to develop
an aggressive program for a two
party system in Virginia since
last November's Republican vic
tory.
CriticizeS "Big Six"
In what might appear to be a
paradox, the man who has been
most vociferous in pushing the
gubernatorial nomination of Mr..
Dalton opened today's convention
with a caustic denunciation of
party leadership which he identi-
fed as "the big Six"-Chairman
Landreth, Mr.. Dalton, Mrs. Lo-
gan and the three g. o. P. mem
bers of Congress.
The speaker was Robert H.
Woods of Parisburg who served as
temporary chairman of the con-
vention.
1--WE simply cannot build a
party in Virginia by tying our
selves to the coat-tails of the
Byrd machine-or to any other
machine" Mr.. Wood said in a
speech prepared for delivery.
I'VE need not keep on kidding
oursel IS -.
Il Vould be very happy to have
the senior Senator from Vir-
ginia join the Republican Party.
The fact is. I do not know why
he has not already done so.
He has had the blessings of
this party of ours so long and
has prof1ted so much by the
allegiance we have paid him that
he ought to come on in and
start paying dues-like a lot of
us have done for so many years.
II would be perfectly willing
to have the Senator help us run
this party. But so long as he
continues to perpetuate his
machine in Virginia toward the
end that there shall be no real
Republican Party except as it
may be used in Democrat pri-
maries. then I say to him -.
we shall have no part of It,"
Outcome Affected.
Nomination of strong guber-
material candidate such as Mr..
Dalton. would, in the opinion
of leaders Of both parties. keep
many Republicans out of the
Democratic primary contest July
IA between State Senator Char
les r. Fenwick of Arlington and
former Representative Thomas
B, Stanley.
This conceivably could affect
the outcome Of the Democratic
race. Supporters of both contest
ants agree that those Republic
cans who do 60 into the primary
will vote for Mr.. Stanley.
Republicans questioned here
are ofthe opinion that Mr.. STAN
ley is the man they are going
to have to beat.
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