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Again Tonight;
Drive Near End
Dalton Answers
Democrats in
Lynchburg Speech
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Gov. Battle makes his second
radio plea tonight for the cleo
ton of Democrat Thomas B,
Stanley as the time for cam
| paigning in one of Virginia s
hardest fought gubernatorial
campaigns narrows to four days
Gov. Battles address to a
Roanoke County courthouse rally
and over IL Southwest Virginia
radio stations comes after yes
terday's 22-station speech by
Senator Robertson. Democrat, of
Virginia.
Mr.. Stanley's main opponent,
Republican Ted Dalton, spent
yesterday in the 9th district
area and struck out in a Lynch
burg speech against Mr.. Stanley,
Democratic organization leaders,
and big trucking interests which
send their vehicles across the
State without buying Virginia
gas and paying gasoline tax to
maintain Virginia roads.
While Mr.. Dalton was charg-
ing Mr.. Stanley with campaign
ing behind a Smoke screen"
using "ghoSt writer's" to prepare
his statements and proxy speak
ers to represent him, including
Senator Byrd, the Democratic
leader, the senior Senator is
sued a statement saying Mr.
Dalton was confused about what
his revenue road bond issue
really means.
Mr.. Stanley had no speeches
scheduled yesterday or today
but will speak tomorrow al
Staunton.
Answers Stalemate Contentious
| Mr.. Dalton took time in his
Lynchburg speech to answer
Democratic contentious that his
election would mean a four-year
Stalemate because he would
have to work with a Democratic
General Assembly.
He noted that Democrat AdlaI
Stevenson rose to fame and his
party'S presidential nomination
by being Governor over a Re-
publican legislature in Illinois
Mr.. Dalton also suggested his
opponent take a glance at the
voting record of his big chief
Byrd and other Virginia Demo
cratic members of Congress- and
he will see that they have been
voting just as much or more with
the administration Eisenhower
than with their own party"
Mr.. Dalton also charged that
the "big chief has worked the
bond issue scare for a fare-you-
we'll"
He said the Democrats are
attempting to make an issue out
Of road bonds to divert attention
from other issues.
Defends Poll Tax Stand.
| Senator Robertson accused the
Republicans of making campaign
promises they can't make good
on, cited Mr.. Stanley's opposi-
ton to Mr.. Dalton's revenue
bond proposal and said that Mr.
Stanley was on sound ground
when he insisted that the repeal
OF the poll tax should be ac-
companied by appropriate pro-
vision for a bona f1de voting list
and substitute for $1,25O,OOO
in annual State revenues now re-
ceived from the levy.
Mr.. Dalton answered that he
wants the poll tax eliminated as
a prerequisite for voting, but
does not mean to do away with
the revenue source.
In Washington, meanwhile,
President Eisenhower gave a nod
of approval to Mr.. Dalton's cam
paign through his White House
press secretary, James Hagerty
In answer to questions, Mr..
Hagerty said the President fa-
vors the election of all candi-
dates running on the Republi-
can ticket, and that includes
races for Governor in Virginia
and New Jersey.
Also in Lynchburg was How
ard H. Carwile. independent
candidate for Governor. He had
planned to fly from Roanoke to
Washington and already had
taken a seat on the plane when
I had a deep-seated, stubborn,
nagging hunch that should not
ride that plane"
Explains His Decision.
So he got off and caught a
train to Washington, getting of
in Lynchburg, where he explained
his decision by saying Virginia
is in too great a need of a good
Governor for me to take any un-
necessary risk"
Senator Byrd accused Mr.. Dali
ton of running for Governor OF
Virginia first on the North Caro-
lima plan of bonded Indebtedness
with a shift to the Maryland
plan.
The Senator raped Mr.. Dal-
tons statement that a proposal
similar to his had been approved
in Maryland as one that did not
put a general obligation on the
State. Declared Senator Byrd:
This is an amazing statement
for lawyer to make, because Mr.
Dalton must know that Maryland
has one constitution and Virginia
another.
when he proposes to issue
500 million in bonds in Virginia
because it CAN be done in Mary
land, he should know that he
must act under the Virginia con-
stitution and not the Maryland
constitution. Maryland is q
bond State. Virginia is a pay
aS-you-go State"
Mr.. Dalton's bond proposal
was opposed yesterday by David
C Acker, a Republican and pres
ldent of the Rockingham Co.
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