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By GEORGE BOWLES
The startling compromise reached by the warring factions within the Democratic Party a fortnight ago did far more than effectively install Attorney General Gerald Baliles as the part y’s candidate for governor.
It set the stage for a renewed struggle between the issueoriented national Democrats in the state and those who. in the interest of what they perceive as political pragmatism, would like to see the party tilt to the right.
The former group is led by Lt. Gov. Dick Davis, the loser in the race for the party’s gubernatorial nomination, and the latter by Gov. Chuck Robb, Baliles and the governor’s inner circle of advisers both in and out of the Commonwealth.
The compromise, which stunned the state’s political observers, contained several facets which were initially puzzling. Indeed, they can still be explained only bx applying a healthy dollop of conjecture and guesswork.
Their main point, of course, was that Davis would withdraw from the race and accept the chairmanship of the Democratic State Central Committee, a post he held from early 1979 until late 1980. Retiring Del. Richard Bagley of Hampton, who had wanted to become the chairman, agreed to accept the lesser position of vice chairman for operations.
The acceptance of the package by the Davis camp and Bagley clears the way for Baliles to receive the nomination for governor, probably by acclamation, when the Democrats hold their state convention in the Richmond Coliseum on June 7-8. The arrangements were worked out by Robb, his Chief of Staff David McCloud, representatives of the two candidates and incumbent state party Chairman Alan Diamonstein.
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