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Governor Long, a hot-headed young man, took office last May after a campaign in which he was supported by Col. Ewing's New Orleans States, and Shreveport Times. Soon after, taking office Governor Long began using the state militia to make raids on gambling resorts in the suburbs of New Orleans. Last month the raiders forcibly searched some of their prisoners. Women prisoners were stripped by women bystanders, infuriating their escorts, outraging public opinion...
...Governor had danced around with a drink in his hand. The States challenged the Governor to sue for libel. Mr. Danziger protested that his party had been "as clean as performances on any theatre stage in the city," but Governor Long said nothing, not even when Col. Ewing's Shreveport Times repeated the charges in the Governor's home town and made them ring through the state from...
TIME, June 11, under "Races" p. 13, you say Lee and Dave Blackman, Negroes, killed en route to Shreveport jail, "had done nothing but be born their brother's brother" and that, "the Parish people wanted more blood." You don't know what you are talking about and you are what decent Southern people call "nigger lovers." The Blackmans were bad niggers, bullies, bootleggers, makers of moonshine and thieves. Last year their father shot out the eyes of a little white boy. We live in harmony with our good niggers-strange ties of affection exist between the white...
...Dave had done nothing but be born their brother's brothers. But the Parish people wanted more blood. Sheriff Turner guessed the Blackman brothers had better be moved to the Shreveport jail. Three deputies fetched them in a car, one day last week...
...feathered the cap of the New Orleans Item, edited by Marshall Ballard, "intellectual roughneck.'' When Candidate Wilson admitted defeat and withdrew, leaving Candidate Long with an enormous lead over impotent Governor Simpson and obviating a second primary, that was triumph for the New Orleans Item and The Shreveport Times, published by aristocratic Colonel Robert Ewing. Governor Simpson's trouncing by Candidate Long was a bitter trouncing for the famed New Orleans Times-Picayune...