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Gap, Beard still called fin, a native of the little mountain community and suggested a search for one of the nine lonesome Republicans who voted for him there in the November election.
Trials Of A Freshman
"A freshman delegate is a sight to behold in Richmond,” he continued. All eighteen were supplied with handbooks and went to orientation conducted by a conservative Democrat and a liberal Democrat. “I don’t know why they couldn’t have found a Republican," he joked.
“I don't know either, George,” someone in the audience shot back over the laughter.
As a freshman, Beard reported he was expected to sit quietly in the rear of the chambers and listen. "Floor speeches,” he said, reading from his little handbook, “are confined to those who have something to say and know what they’re talking about.” More laughter greeted his candid appraisal of a freshman delegate’s influence.
In noting his assignment to two major committees (agriculture and Finance), Beard said the Speaker responsible for the assignments "must have been embarrassed — he came up here and campaigned for my opponent.”
With a more serious vein. Beard praised the state's highest governing body for becoming a "bipartisan assembly” when the doors to
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