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The present State political organizations has given us a notable list of Governors Pollard, Peery, Price, Tuck, and Battle. Virginia has continued to progress under their administrations, without weakening any of the cornerstones upon which the Commonwealth rested.
In our opinion Mr. Stanley will not be a spectacular governor, and will not have a startling administration— but he will continue to maintain those principles of Virginia government which have l>een tempered in the fires of experience.
We do not know what Mr. Fenwick would do if elected governor. The remark is often heard that this is our chance “to elect someone from our area,” Is that necessarily good? Do we want the philosophy of Arlington, which is more akin to that of the District of Columbia than to Virginia, to take over our State government.
It is also said that Fenwick, like Stanley, is a member of the present State political organizzation. He was—but is he now? All but three of the thirty-seven members of the State Senate are supporting Mr. Stanley, and all but a baker’s dozen of the one hundred members of the House of Delegates are doing so. Would Mr. Fehwick, as governor, be able to work effectively with a Legislature whose members had been so overwhelmingly against his election?
In our opinions Mr. Fenwick would not properly represent those of us who believe in the traditional government of Virginia. He is too committed to the metropolitan philosophy of his home county, Arlington, and would be under too great an obligation to the flock of radical supporters who
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