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...Sweeper. Despite the opposition of two of his four commissioners, each of whom has almost as much power as the mayor, Chep tidied up the city's government. He swept out the hacks of the "Old Regulars," the regular city Democratic machine. He knocked 400 useless people off city payrolls...
...useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
...there are some ominously familiar voices raised against him. One rival candidate is Congressman Jimmy Morrison (no kin to Chep), who stands for things with a demagogic Huey Longish ring: more four-lane highways, $50-a-month pensions for the old folks. Another candidate is Earl Long himself, who was shouting in a gravel voice that nobody never proved nothin' crooked about Earl K. Long, the White Knight of the poor folks. He will probably finish close enough to Jones in the primaries to require a runoff...
...Long gang had been knocked out of the Statehouse in 1940-but not out of the state. Chep Morrison's own office is secure until 1950, but a reform administration never has an easy seat...
...John Rankin, Eugene Talmadge, there was reason to believe that political responsibility was growing in the South. But the very sound of Earl Long's gravel voice was enough to cause the city's heart to skip a beat. So Sam Jones's fight was also Chep Morrison's fight...