The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-09-11
By JAMES E. GROWN
City Editor, New Orleans States (Written for NEA Service)

| kALlCd1 war lOIu dnu OWuGE Ol
 newspapers in New Orleans and Shreveport, the man who made
 long politically, Long said a few | weeks before he entered the gov. ernor's mansion:
 Tim good for 30 years. F'oui years as governor; can't succeed
 myself under the laws of the state but l can put in a dummy when
 my term is over, and go to the
 United States Senate; then back as governor again, with a dummy ir
 the Senate; and repeat.
 Thirty fat and juicy years, and
 when I'm 60, can retire. travel
 self.' This was before his break
 with Ewing.
 The first third of the program is nearly accomplished, and Long is laying his plans now to take the governorship in 1886. The present junior senator from Louisiana, John H. Overton, gives Long no worries, and he can find will jump to his masters voice like all the other Long jobholders. And so on, the cycle to be repeated
 
 MONEY IS RUNNING OUT
 The federal government on the one hand is pushing it's income tax investigation against Long with all the resources at its command, and on the other, Long has suffered enormous loss of prestige among the people to whom his word was formerly the inspired voice of the temple.
 The money is running out--the hundred million dollar bond issues of the state and of the parishes the spending of which Long con- trolled either by his own fiat or through court house cliqpes. Without money, he cannot hold his voting ranks firm. This is the
 reason for his attack and his rais- ing of the vice-graft battle cry in New Orleans.
 There is plenty of vice, gambling
 and what have you in New Or.
 leans, but there is plenty of >the
 same in the adjoining parishes oi
 St Bernard and Jefferson, which are part of the city in every sense except a political one. These are two Long strong. | holds, the last of his mighty camps
 in the state, with reported voting registrations greater than the en. tire population as given in the
 United States census. HOW HE STANDS IN STATE In Louisiana, his influence to. day stacks up like this: Third congressional district
 Numa Montet, a Long man, sure to win. But Montet has quarreled
 with Long and may break witt him.
 Fourth district: John N. Sandlin
 anti-Long candidate, already con ceded to be the winner. Fifth district: Joseph Riley Will. son, anti-Long, will win. Sixth district: Jared Y. Sanders Jr, bitter anti-Long candidate, un. | opposed.
 Seventh district is in doubt, but l the anti-Long forces are now ir
 the majority.
 Eighth district: Cleveland Dear anti-Long, is practically in the bag
 CENTERS HIS FIRE Long is now centering his guns upon the first and second districts
 comprising New Orleans and St | Bernard and Jefferson, parishes. Ii he can pull his men, Joseph Fer
 nandez and Paul Maloney, out o1 the fire. Long will have a chance to rebuild his. political machine. To do this, he is counting on | the swollen vote of St Bernard and Jefferson parishes. for he won't gel much more than his payroll vote
 in New Orleans.
 If Long can swing these two elections, he believes that the hor.
 rible example of what happens to secessionists from his empire vii drive the entire state back into hi: control.
 Since he was IS, Long has de: nounced the New Orleans ring. He
 won his first office on this plat form, with the support of Colone
 Ewing, who was also fighting tho ring.
 GETS BIG CITY HELP
 Later, Long's country influence waned, and he needed New Or
 leans to bolster his power. Hence
 his coalition with the ring few
 years ago.
 But the coalition didn't work ou | as well for Long as he had hoped
 In Alexandria, he was egged Throughout the country, defectior continued-and increased. Long determined to break witt | the city, and raised the age-old
 issue of country vs. city. How does Long keep his men 1T line-men whom he calls sacks oi
 potatoes' with a known market l price? PAYROLL HOLDS FEM At least five state senators have
 six relatives each on the state pay. rolls. Seven senators have four
 relatives each on them. Nine sen.
 ators have two to three each there
 Tn some instances, the family of .
 senator drags down $1 400 a month from the state payrolls. This fight in New Orleans is Custer's last stand for Long. In his desperation, he forced Gov ernor O. K. Allen to declare partial
 martial law, and for a month the national guard has been quartered
 in the registration office. heavily armed.
 Long fiouted the courts when they ruled that this was unconsti- tutional. He threatened to seize