Evening star., 1934-01-21
BITTER MAY0RA[TY.
CAMPA| CLOSES.
Three New Orleans Candi.
dates Exhaust Vocabu.
larry of Invectives.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, January 2O.-The
book of invectives was completely ex-
hausted today as partisan speakers,
shouting from platforms in three differ
ent sections of the city. wound up the
bitterest and most vituperative mayor
atty campaign in recent New Orleans
history.
The primary is not until Tuesday,
but by tradition, the campaign was con-
cluded tonight in the three big rallies
of the opposing states.
AS the voting day neared, there was
an ominous background of threatened
use of the State administrations con-
trolled militia and an answering city
hall threat to swear in 10000 police If
Guardsmen are sent into the city on
election day But both of these possi-
bilities faded when the embattled fac
tions got together long enough this aft
ernoon to agree on primary aroltra-
ton board of seven citizens empowered
to command 300 special officers to pre-
serve order at the polls, and pass on
disputes arising there.
Campaign of Personalities.
The campaign has been based strictly
on personalities, principally the per-
sonality of Senator Huey P. Long, who
threw a complete ticket of his own
choosing into the field after breaking
an alliance with the city hall old regu-
lar organization just before Christmas
Long left his desk in Washington to
return here and urge his slate in
drive for votes which found each OF
the candidates charging the others with
everything from larceny to protection
of gangsters.
There are three candidates for the
mayoralty-Mayor T Semmes Walms-
ley. old regular chieftain, seeking re-
election; John Klorer. resigned levee
board engineer put up by the Long ma
chine. and Francis Williams State
Public Service Commissioner, and an
avowed independent.
Walmsley and williams have devoted
almost their entire time to efforts to
convince the voters that each is more
anti-Long" than the other. coupled
with a plea to deal Long political
death-blow in New Orleans"
Long, bearing the brunt of the
Klorer campaign, has spared neither
adjectives or oratory in picturing
Walmsley and Williams as unfit for
public office" During the past week,
he has nightly presented one-act radio
plays" all of them court scenes in
which some leader of the opposition
has been tried and convicted" of some
high crime or misdemeanor.
Many Charges Unprintable.
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speech-making has been of the imprint
able variety, daily newspapers having
to resort to daSheS in many instances.
The contest reached whitehead last
Monday midnight when Walmsley'S old
regular police raided the Office of the
Long appointed registrar of voters. c..
S. Barnes. and arrested Barnes and 10
aides. including one of Senator Longs
reputed bodyguards. and held them in
Jail for 10 hours The group was sub
sequently charged by the district at
torney with defacing the registration
books, which were placed in the hands
of the civil sheriff by court order. The
sheriff, in turn, placed the books in
Parish prison until election day.
After the registration raid, District
Attorney Eugene Stanley announced
intention of investigating reported ex-
pansion of the local pay rolls OF State
agencies. But this move was quickly
checkmated by Gov. o. K. Allen, allied
with the Long organization, who Or
dered State Adjt. Gen. Raymond H.
Fleming to take charge of the State
office records here and allow no access
to them. Fleming subsequently re-
tanned squad of 25 National Guards
men at Jackson Barracks to aid in
carving out the order
On the eve of the new test of his
political strength. Senator Long today
received word of House Committee ac-
ton in refusing to give the vacant
Louisiana sixth district seat either to
Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, whom he backed
for the post, or j. Y. Sanders, jr., his
personal and political enemy. who con-
tested with Mrs. Kemp for the seat.
Senator Long had no comment, being
described by aides as too hoarse to
talk this morning"
When informed of the committee
action, "he didn't even grunt," an aide
said.