Evening star., 1933-09-17
BY GEORGE HEALY, JR.
epecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS. La. September 16.
Doubt as to the current relations be-
tween Senator Huey P. Long, head Of
the State organization. and Mayor T.
Semmes Walmsley, chief OF the New
Orleans organization. has started the
political pot boiling in Louisiana.
The Senator and mayor have been
political friends since 1880 and the
mayors organization has contributed
handsomely to the victories of several
of the candidates placed in the field by
Senator Long.
Rumors that the Long organization
would place ticket in the field in op-
position to that of Mayor Walmsley in
the municipal campaign which will
precede the primary election of Febru-
ary, 1894 have been current for several
weeks. and credence was given these
rumorS during the past week when the
senior Senator issued a statement deny
ing that there ever had been any COM
bination between his and the Walmsley
organization and asserting that the
Senator's machine has mo combination
with lice and rats who have mulcted
our people. squandered our funds and
broken their promises to the people in
campaign after campaign for 80 years" :"
When a friend of the mayor an
nounced Sunday that the break" be-
tween Long and Walmsley was an actual
fact Mayor WalmSley hastened to issue
statement asserting that he had in
formed this friend of no break"
Senator Longs statement asserted
that his organization does not need the
heavy vote Of New Orleans to win cleo
tions in Louisiana. but there are many
po!Eical observers in the State who dis
agree with this assertion.
Gov. o. K. Allen, elected in 1880 as
the Long candidate. failed to obtain a
majority in parishes outside Of the
city, but was put over" by the heavy
New Orleans vote. Five constitutional
amendments supported by the Senator
in the 1882 general election were de-
feated in the country parishes and
adopted through the heavy vote re-
turned in the city. Approximately 200
election commissioners who served at
the polls in the 1882 general election
are under election fraud charges be-
cause of discrepancies found by Dis
trict Attorney Eugene Stanley in the
heavy vote return.
District Attorney Stanley Monday
halted circulation of reports that he
plans to be a candidate for mayor, in
opposition to Mayor Walmsley, by an
nouncing that he will seek Reelection
to his position as prosecutor Francis
Williams long political enemy of Sem
ator Long and of Mayor Walmsley. and
DR.. George F. Roeling Orleans parish
coroner, already are campaigning for
the mayors Office.
The city campaign. In the opinion OF
many persons familiar with Louisiana
politics, will determine the future of
the Long organization and its leader.
Should a candidate opposed by Sena-
tor Long obtain election in February as
mayor of New Orleans, in the opinion
of these observers, the Senator's polit-
ical future in Louisiana will be any,
thing but bright.
Politics recently has occupied only
slightly more attention from Louisi-
anans than conditions at the Angola
penal farm, where recent escape was
accompanied by a running gun battle
in which three employees Of the prison
and a convict were killed and several
other persons were wounded.
The break was responsible for rad
ical change In policy by the peniten-
tiary officials r. l.. Hines, general
manager. soon after the escape issued
instructions to all prison employees that
no visiting will be permitted. A woman
confessed that she smuggled pistol to