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By LINDA B. KINES
Rappahannock Finn SprcUl Writer
Rappahannock’s three Republican delegates stood by their “favorite son” through six, tense ballots before John Warner stepped out of the spotlight he had promised to share with his 7th District supporters at the state convention in Richmond.
“I never thought I'd see all these Republicans gathered together,” said Mrs. Frances Carney, chairman of Rappahannock's delegation, before approximately 10*/i hours of voting at the Richmond Coliseum last Saturday. With an estimated 10,000 delegates, alternates, party officials, guests and candidates' floor personnel, the GOP state convention is said to be the largest political convention in U. S. history.
"I wrote everyone who elected us at the mass meeting to ask them to let us know how to go,” said Mrs. Carney. “A couple more people were for Warner than Obenshain, but nobody was very definite so we all came uncommitted."
An aide of Warner’s read portions of a letter from conset"vattve cohimntst lames J. Kilpatrick, who lives in Rappahannock, at a 7th District caucus late last Friday night. After praise for his experience as a former U. S. Secretary of the Navy, Kilpatrick added that Warner "damn it all” has the "dignity and presence” to be a U. S. Senator. “I wish I were in a position to champion your cause,” read the campaign aide from Kilpatrick's letter, “but I’m not." Mrs. Carney was proud that Washington, D. C., newspaper stories about a rebirth of the Republican party in Virginia had cited Republican strength in Rappahannock growing from seven persons at a mass meeting two years ago to 53 this spring.
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