Evening star., 1935-01-27

JOBS were endangered Dy leglSla-
sion of the Louisiana Legislature,
/ precedent in building up their
ship-those on the State pay roll,
those related to persons or having
close friends in State jobs. Those
who own businesses or property and
are afraid their assessments may be
raised or their businesses ruined
through the vengeful wrath of Sena-
tor Long, who holds greater power in
his domain than any other man in
America.
In the roster of the Square Deal
Association appear the following
names:
Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley of New
Orleans, titular head of the old regu-
lation organization, who defeated SEN
ator Longs candidate for mayor a
year ago, only to lose the city six
months later in contests which car
ried with them the domination of the
State Supreme Court.
Jared Y. Sanders, Governor of
Louisiana from 1908 to 1912, maker
of many Governors since, one-time
Representative from the sixth Con-
gress district, the seat now held by
his son, J. Y. Sanders, jr., who de-
feated the Long candidate less than
year ago.
John NJ Parker, dynamic Gov
ernor from 1920 to 1924, who ad-
miniStered defeat to the old regulars
ho ;,, -.
generation before the advent of Huey
Long, and who in 1880 joined the
old regulars and headed the Con-
stitutional League of Louisiana, Or
ganized to make a dignified fight
with facts against Senator Long, who
had already begun to show his domi-
neering strength.
Ruffin G. Pleasant, another former
Governor, whose fight against Sena-
tor Long has been continuous.
Francis Williams, now head of the
Jackson Democratic Club of New
Orleans, who, though joined tempo
rarily with the old regulars last Sep
tember, was defeated as a member
of the Louisiana Public Service Com
mission in district composed of New
Orleans and the vice ridden parishes
surrounding.
Hilda Phelps Hammond, head of
the Louisiana Womens Committee to
Fight Long, who has led the fight
for the unseating of Senator Long
and his fellow Senator, John H. Over
ton, before committees of the United
States Senate.
These leaders, though partially
successful in bygone fights, have not
been able to end the rule of Senator
Long, who, through the Legislature,
has repealed the corrupt practices acts
and rewritten the election laws.
If these leaders of former anti
Long fights should offer their leader
ship in the new movement it would
be refused promptly. However, their
paramount interest is in ridding the
State of Long, and their best wishes
go with the young leaders in their
spectacular enterprise against the
famboyant master Snowman of pres
ent-day politics.
Membership Analysed.
Had such a movement as the Square
Deal Association been launched a
year ago, it would doubtless have
had in its membership many persons
holding minor public jobs, but they
have been taught now that no per-
son drawing public pay is safe from
Long reprisals.
Consequently, in the present Or
ganization is found:
Not one of the $4,000 school teach
ers in the State, whose tenure is made
subject to a Long controlled State
Budget Committee.
No policeman or fireman, whose
jobs are made dependent on the
desires of state Civil Service Com
mission" that Senator Long controls.
Few municipal or parochial en-
ployes, who have learned that city
government and parish County, gov
ernments may be abolished by mere
acts of the Legislature.
Few heads or employees of State
banks or other financial associations
under the supervision of the State
Banking Department.
Few leaders in business enterprises
who have seen enterprise completely
crushed by devious powers in the
hands of the dictator
No professors or eductors, for, if en-
ployed in State institutions, they know
they are dependent on the dictator for