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...Wonder from Tennessee-a composite of "Pitchfork" Tillman, Huey Long, "Hummun" Talmadge and lay preacher-spent less time with the dictionary of invective and more with his Bible, he might have learned what it says about liars...
...Happy come back so far so fast? Simple: he ordered some 20,000 state employees to work and vote for him in the county and state conventions-or lose their jobs. "Not since Huey Long bulldozed his way to power in Louisiana has any man used such Gestapo-like tactics to gain a political goal," fumed the Louisville Courier-Journal. "Happy and his cohorts have drawn the line at nothing...
...opponents, ruthlessly axed holdover appointees from other administrations, defied legislative rules and traditions by roaming the floors of both houses at will. Long's goals, as many a despondent Louisianian sees them: 1) a tax-and-spend policy to dwarf the fondest dreams of the late Brother Huey, even at the risk of bankrupting the state, and 2) a campaign to tighten Earl's grip on the governmental reins until no hand but his guides the state of Louisiana...
...under the Capitol roof and roundly lashed such former allies as his ex-law partner, Clem Sehrt of New Orleans, and Leander H. Perez, the powerful political boss and district attorney of Plaquemines and St. Bernard parishes. Said Earl of Perez (who once played a key role in saving Huey from impeachment): "He would like to be dictator and custodian of all human rights, races and creeds...
...with it all, there is a distinct dissimilarity between the performances of Earl and Huey as governors of Louisiana: what Huey wanted, Huey got; what Earl wants has begun to evade him with increasing frequency. Fortunately for Louisiana, Earl's predecessor, Governor Robert F. Kennon, led a successful campaign to amend the constitution so that a two-thirds legislative majority is now needed for all tax boosts, hence most of Earl's paralyzing tax increases seem doomed to defeat. But that does not mean that Earl will give up. When, after the hard-won reconsideration, his pari-mutuel...