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But it wasn’t in the picture for the Almond liberals to win. Boo and hoot as they might, Ed McCue declared Albemarle with Byrd, and Burr P. Harrison happily announced 140 of the 142 votes in the seventh District on the Conservative side. Both Madison and Rappahannock Counties were included in the 140. Orange and Culpeper downed the Almond change as did Spottsylvania, but Louisa surprisingly, switched to the other side. In the end it was a 2 to 1 victory for Byrd. The amendment was defeated.
Still the Almond forces didn’t quit. A young man ih a neatly tailored suit handed Rep. Poff a message an<* Mr. Poff rose to move that the convention adjourn sine die, before voting on the Byrd resolution. His motion was declared out of order, but he read from a book on parliamentary proceedure handed to ihim by the same well tailored young man that such a motion held precedence over any other motion. The vote to adjourn was taken, and again the liberals were voted down.
Defeat now certain, the Arlington-Adexandria-Fairfax delegation rose and left, while the Byrd resolution was being passed. As they filed out, our friend Higgen botham from Orange remarked, “Look at them. More than half are women, and the men all look like they wash the dishes.” , It was certainly true about this city crowd, just as it was true that today was a grand victory for the Byrd conservatives But unfortunately the male didhwashers in Virginia | geem to be on the increase, populationwise, and there will be more conventions.
B.C.B., Jr.
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