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Into the lobby of New Orleans' Hotel Roosevelt, stronghold of the partisans of Huey P. Long, ventured Burt W. Henry, president of the Anti-Long Honest Election League. There he caught sight of John Holmes Overton, junior Senator from Louisiana and the Kingfish's short, pudgy henchman. Burt Henry suddenly remembered the day last winter when John Overton, on the floor of the Senate, had accused him of hypocrisy for representing the Honest Election League as nonpartisan. Said Henry: "If you do not apologize we'll go outside and settle this thing." On second thought he decided...
...Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...Kingfish hastily concocted a Louisiana holiday celebrating the 16th anniversary of the day after the day President Wilson gave German Ambassador Count von Bernstorff his walking papers. From this fantastic episode Banker Hecht got considerable but not wholly dignified publicity...
...election guards, it may choose, for the sake of economy, to concede the election. "Kingfish" Long is taking no chances of again losing any Louisiana election as he did in New Orleans last January...
...Heil Huey' in the State of Louisiana now, but it must be admitted that the citizens seem calm about the Putsch which has established the dictatorship of der Kingfish...