First Down

Huey Long had hundreds of his opponents' voters scratched from the ballot lists.

Huey Long had hundreds of men put temporarily on the State pay roll at $5 a day, to roam the streets of New Orleans roaring for his candidate for Mayor.

Huey Long climaxed the municipal primary campaign with an hysterical radio tirade against his opponents, finally bursting into parodied song: Anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Lo-o-o-ong!

Huey Long might as well have spared his pains, his State's money and his voice for last week New Orleans indignantly smothered the Long candidate, John Klorer. Klorer received 31,869 votes. An independent Democrat named Francis Williams got 26,673. Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley topped the ticket with 48,752. Since Democrat Walmsley had no clear majority, Klorer was entitled to a run-off primary. But the Longster, a poor second against the massed votes of his opponents, had no stomach for another contest. Thus Semmes Walmsley, whose rough-&-ready politics were learned through a long apprenticeship with the Choctaw Club (New Orleans' Tammany), was conceded a second term as Mayor of the Crescent City.

Smarting under his first big defeat in six years, Boss Long burbled: "Walmsley talks about fighting us. Why, he'll be trying to cry on my shoulder inside of a week. But there'll be no quarter this time!" week. But Now that they had the "Kingfish" down, his many Louisiana enemies lost no time in trying to get him out. At the Monteleone Hotel in New Orleans were 32 Federal in come tax investigators, sent by an un sympathetic Administration to probe Senator Long's finances. Two live slander suits pended against him in Washington and Baton Rouge. All eight Louisiana Congressional Districts were organizing anti-Long clubs. The scrappy Women's Committee of Louisiana retained General Samuel Tilden Ansell, dismissed prosecutor of the Senatorial investigation of Louisiana politics, and John G. Holland, dismissed sleuth of the same committee, to press its ouster charges against Huey Long and his henchman John Holmes Overton in the Senate.

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