In a surprising Democratic primary election in Virginia last week, Albertis Sydney Harrison Jr., the state's personable, 54-year-old attorney general, won the party's gubernatorial nomination with ease as he whipped Lieutenant Governor A.E.S. Stephens, 60, by some 45,000 votes. Harrison will face only token Republican opposition in the general election next November.
What was surprising was that Harrison was the hand-picked candidate of aging Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 74, and the rumormongers were saying that the political nest, feathered so faithfully by Byrd over three decades, was falling apart. All of Byrd's oldtime cronies had either died or retired; the...
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