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...accordance with unwritten Congressional custom, Widow Lallie Kemp was endorsed by the Long faction to succeed him. Four other candidates also prepared to enter the primary to win a Democratic nomination which in Louisiana is the same thing as an election. Suddenly last fortnight, Governor Oscar Kelly Allen, a Longster, called a special election, to be held eight days after his proclamation. He boldly named Widow Kemp as "the unopposed Democratic nominee because there will not be time to hold a primary." At this latest piece of the "Kingfish's" political audacity, the 6th District was hopping...