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...Virginia, although the Republicans had high hopes until Little Rock, GOP gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt Dalton received almost a tenth less votes than he did in 1953. The Virginia election serves as an indication of the degree to which the South has rejected its seemingly growing Republican sentiments because of Little Rock. There are only five Republican Southerners in the House, and while the GOP may lose some of these seats, it stands little chance of making any gains in the South...
...dust-dry summer, Harry Byrd's apples are smaller than usual. But in the middle of an autumn that began with Little Rock, Byrd's political harvest may well be a record-breaker. Four years ago the G.O.P.'s Dalton won a threatening 45% of the vote, competing against Byrd Candidate Thomas B. Stanley for governor, in an atmosphere of pre-integration calm and post-Eisenhower-election rosiness...
This year's Democratic Candidate J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 59, is stronger than Governor Stanley: he was an able Congressman and attorney general, won Byrd's grudging benediction for governor by starting early, shrewdly maneuvering other hopefuls out of contention. Nonetheless, Republican Ted Dalton had an outside chance against Almond because before Little Rock Dalton was talking sense about gradual integration and-to the quiet disgust of many Virginia Democrats-Almond was peddling the massive-resistance nonsense that Harry Byrd had decreed. Then the federal troops flew into Arkansas...
Chaos & Turmoil. Principal purpose of the whole campaign is to smear Republican Dalton as an all-out integrationist. and, except in the traditionally Republican mountain counties in the far western corner of Virginia, the campaign has worked. Some of Dalton's aides have quit, and his financing is poor. Today when tall, grey Ted Dalton shakes hands with a stranger and identifies himself, he is generally eyed with hostility. His audiences frequently number fewer than 100, and infrequently listen to his warning that Harry Byrd's anti-integration laws will be clipped by the Supreme Court...
...Dalton is almost certain to be beaten next month. The result will be a loss for the whole South-not because Dalton is Dalton or is a Republican but because Harry Byrd, who could have used his vast influence for moderation, has chosen to win his victory by preaching defiant white supremacy. Democrat Almond, in winning the governorship on such terms, will inherit a state of chaos and hatred when the Supreme Court moves against Byrd's system of legal subterfuge...