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From Both Barrels
Gen. Sherman
And Gov. Robb
By GEORGE BOWLES
On June 5, 1884, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who that year was widely hailed as the popular choice for the Republican presidential nomination, sent a telegram to the GOP Convention in Chicago. The message was to become as closely associated with his name as was the General’s march through Georgia.
Wired Sherman to John B. Henderson, the convention chairman, “I will not accept if nomiated, and will not serve if elected.”
A few weeks short of exactly a century later, on May 18, 1984, the Virginia Democratic Convention will be gavelled to order in Norfolk. Its main order of business will be to nominate a U.S. Senate candidate to oppose incumbent Republican John Warner.
If Gov. Chuck Robb is to avoid receiving his party’s Senate nomination at that convention, he may have to put forth a statement fully as firm and final as Sherman’s.
To be sure, Robb has already come close to issuing such a statement. He has told all and sundry that he will not be a candidate, that he has no interest in
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