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i^avis agreed to pun out alter at least two considerations became apparent. He believed he could have won the nomination by challenging a sufficient number of the Baliles delegates to the convention, but he is convinced the party would have become so divided that the nomination would have been worthless. In addition, he foresaw trouble raising the amount of money which would have been necessary to win. That amount was put by some of his advisers at $3 million to $4 million, or perhaps more.
Thus Davis agreed to bail out. His price for doing so was the chairmanship of the state party, a condition which apparently gave the negotiators no real trouble. Bagley agreed to go along, and the deal was set.
But several cosmic questions remained. Who on Earth would Davis, who apparently has no further political ambitions, want the chairmanship of the party? Even more remarkably, Bagley had given up his seat in the House of Delegates and the chairmanship of the House Appropriations Committee, one of the most powerful posts in state government, to seek the party chairmanship. He readily acknowledged that this was a part of his game plan to win the gubernatorial nomination in 19bH. Why did he so willingly abandon that phase of his plan?
Both men had answers which were plausible.
Davis said the agreement would permit him to become more active in national Democratic Party affairs, which he
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