Evening star., 1953-10-10
l(IlI9|t,
To Fix Dalton,
Stanley Debate
II 6. O. P. Chairman
II In 10th District
II Asks for Meeting
By Alex R. Preston

state Senator Charles II. Fen
wick, who only recently was
challenging his Democratic pri-
mary opponent. Thomas B. Stan
ley, to debate campaign issues
from the same platform, today
was challenged to arrange a joint
appearance between Mr.. Stanley
and his Republican gubernatorial
opponent, Ted Dalton, when both
appear in Arlington at the same
time.
I. Lee Potter. chairman of the
10th congressional district Re-
publican Committee, offered the
proposal in a letter to Mr.. Fem
wick who is chairman of the
10th district Democratic Com
mittee.
Both Mr.. Stanley and Mr..
Dalton are scheduled to spend
the day in Arlington on October
% and the Democrat has de-
clined an offer by the Republic
can to revise schedules so the
two could debate the issues.
Mr.. Potter wrote Mr.. Fenwick,
who was defeated by Mr.. STAN
ley in the July IA primary:
IT know that you are in SYM
pathy with Mr.. Dalton'S chal-
lenge to Mr.. Stanley since less
than three months ago in the
Democratic primary you were
issuing Mr.. Stanley the same
challenge to no avail. But now
that Mr.. Stanley has put any
debate arrangements in the 10th
district in the hands of his man
ayers, I am sure the voters will
watch carefully your actions on
this important matter.
"The issues should be discussed
on open platform-as you your
self pointed out repeatedly so
recently-and it now seems to be
within your discretion to order
it done. I will await your an
swer before making further COM
mitments for senatoe Dalton for
October 49,"
Mr.. Fenwick, commenting on
the letter, said, I'm not Mr..
Stanley's compaign manager. His
itinerary is being set up by his
State campaign committee. I
am in no position to say to Mr..
Stanley what he should do"
In his recent campaign against
Mr.. Stanley, the Arlington State
Senator repeatedly charged his
opponent with running away"
from debates and refusal to
appear at meetings to which both
had been invited.
Offers to Debate.
This week when campaign
managers in both camps an
nounced the two would be in
Arlington at the same time, Mr..
Dalton offered to revise his
schedule to suit Mr.. Stanley if
the latter would agree to debate.
Mr.. Stanley told The Star his
schedule was set by his man.
ayers and he would have to con-
suit them first. Sydney Kellam.
the State manager in Richmond
said Mr.. Stanley had a full
schedule: He will speak to the
Arlington Women's Democratic
Club at National Airport at 1890
pm; make a television broad
cast in Washington at 7:30 pm.
and appear at a reception in
Fairfax at $50 pm. Mr.. Dalton
has planned to appear at rally
at Thomas Jefferson Junior High
School that night.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Stanley, in a
radio broadcast at GalaX last
night, answered in stinging
terms Mr.. Dalton's charge that
he was the "hand picked" cam
didate of the Byrd organization.
Cali right" said the former
Representative, "let's see who
actually has been hand picked.
Earlier this year, I announced my
candidacy for Governor, SUBJ
ject to the Democratic primary.
Then I travelled throughout Vir-
ginia and saw people from all of
its counties and all of its cities
and the result was that 228,228
voters went to the polls and Sc
lected me as their Democratic
nominee on July IA. =.
Chosen at Convention.
Nov let's see how my OPP
ponent was selected. He was
chosen at Roanoke by a so-called
convention attended by approxi-
mately TOO Republicans, even
though a few members of that
party had got together months
ahead and decided who was go
ing to be their standard bearer.
"Then he made it look like
he did not want to run. He
wanted to play hard-to-get. But
when, all of a sudden, it looked
like it was not going to be easy
after all for him to get the
nomination, he then became
alarmed and rushed about fran
tically in his own behalf. Finally,
about two-thirds of the conven-
ton agreed on him. So I'd say
he was super hand-picked by
about $50 people"
Representative Broyhill, Re
publican of the 10th district, led
efforts to oppose Mr.. Dalton's
nomination at the G. 0. P. con-
vention. His faction succeeded
in mastering 254 votes for Col.
Harris T. Richards of Fairfax.
out of more than 800 votes, on
the first roll call, even though
Mr.. Richards said he did not
want the nomination.
In his talk prepared for de-
livery last night Mr.. Stanley
said. mot in more than a gener-
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