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...character to his political puppet show, Louisiana's Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long went up to Arkansas last year, stumped the State with a motorcade and sound truck, elected Hattie Caraway to the Senate seat of her late husband. Wild was the uproar of outraged Louisianans last week when button-nosed, pugnacious Senator Long set out to ride Lallie Conner Kemp into Congress on his ruthless machine...
...courageous Senate committee, in the face of overwhelming evidence of political wrongdoing, was foxily preparing a technical "out" for itself stirred up equally widespread resentment and rage in Louisiana. Last week Senator Long's foes were confident that they could soon harness these popular emotions to dethrone the Kingfish...
Last February the Howell committee, still Republican, went to New Orleans to scrutinize the Overton-Broussard contest. During an explosive two weeks it became clear that the foes of Senator Long were trying to put the "Kingfish" and his crowd on trial instead of Senator Overton. The inquiring Senators scattered, dismissed their counsel. For nine months the inquiry slept. Fortnight ago it was revived as the result of vigorous protests from such outraged Louisianans as Mrs. Hilda Phelps Hammond, sister of one of the publishers of the anti-Long New Orleans Times-Picayune, and her Women's Committee...
This travesty on popular suffrage, said anti-Long witnesses, was made possible by a practice which Senator Long freely admitted on the witness stand. Every primary candidate in Louisiana is permitted a staff of poll workers. In one-third of Louisiana's parishes, the Kingfish testified, his machine had paid the entrance fees of dummy candidates who subsequently withdrew in favor of regular Long candidates but left their poll workers in the field...
...third anti-Long man got an important Federal job in New Orleans last week when President Roosevelt snubbed the rebellious "Kingfish" by appointing New Orleans' Daniel Decatur Moore to be Collector of Internal Revenue...