Heirlooms, Rope, Pistols

Heirlooms, Rope, Pistols

As her grandmother pawned her gewgaws for gunpowder and tore up her cotton petticoats for bandages when the homeland was imperiled in 1861-65, so many a Louisiana lady was last week offering her most cherished heirlooms for sale to raise money to crush the boss rule of blatant, butter-nosed Senator Huey Pierce ("Kingfish") Long. By last week anti-Long sentiment was so bitter in the State that at a huge mass meeting in Baton Rouge, responsible citizens publicly urged the use of violence if their demands for economy and decent government were not satisfied. Strapping Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans declared: "I have dedicated my life to the extermination of Huey Long md all his kind from politics. I am not here to talk, but to listen to what you want me to do." "If it is necessary to teach them decency at the end of a hempen rope," cried Mayor George W. Hardy Jr. of Shreveport, "I, for one, am willing to swing the rope!" Adjourning with the angry cry that the next time they returned to the State capital it would be with pistols, the crowd went home to organize a Statewide body of anti-Long vigilantes.

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