, 1935-03-08
Madman'Long Waves His
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Before Mike And
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Bitterly Flags New Deal

lana dictator seized the opportunity
to attempt, before his radio audi
ence. to hammer home his share
the wealth" ideas.
They wondered If that we're not
an emphatic Few indication Of an
effort TO gather strength for the
1896 campalgnS-tn which some OBJ
servers foreSee the possibility OF a
third party movement.
OF the men who have struck at
Long I'D the past few days, only
Jonnson had any immediate COM
ment on Thursday nights speech.
The former Blue Eagle chief who
Is in Providence, Rhode Island,
said: Its a great Joke'-and for
The time being let IL 60 at that. He
Is saving MS Ire until after Father
Charles z. CoIghlin OF Detroit re-
plies Monday night 70 the Jonn-
Sonian charge that both the priest
and the Louisiana senator are dema-
gogues appealing to the abused
babies" OF depression.
Senator Robinson OF Arkansas. the
democratic leader who has tangled
with Long on the senate floor, tuned
in on the speech Thursday night
but had no comment. He told news
men who talked with him while
the speech was going on that ne
hadn't heard anything TO which ne
wanted TO reply.
Senator Bailey OF North Carolina,
another whom Long has threatened
to send TO political oblivion, said ne
hadn't heard the speech and wasn't
interested" Neither was Senator
Byrd, Virginia democrat who de-
nounced Long As a demagogue In
a recent speech.
Long failed his arms as much
as ever as he ccatended IN the radio
speech that the Wkite House had
declared war on him and chosen
the late and lamented, the PAM
pered ex-crown prince" Of the Blue
Eagle to make the "lead-off speech
But the "Kingfish" departed from
his custom In one reSpect-he had
prepared a manuscript, which he
followed part CT the time. One OF
his departures from 1t was his dis
Paraging reference 70 JohnSon'S
military proweSS. Another was his
contention that when johnson went
out OF NRA he prepared "a blister
ing statement" which never saw the
light of day.
The reason IT was suppressed. he
said. was that Wall Street might
want 10 loan him 70 some other
president in the future" Once, he
changed a more elegant appellation
for his foes 10 the phrase those
birds opposing me-"
God save the country from the
misery and distress OF that gang
lie said.
To the support of his plan TO cut
the wealth OF ali rich men down 10
100000 or S4.O00.000 and other
wise distribute riches, he summoned
the Bible and the compact made
by the pilgrim fathers.
While my urgings are declared
by some to be the rawlings OF a
mailman" he said, land by such
men as General Johnson as in
sincere bait of a pied piper, If you
will listen TO me you will find that
Il Is reStating the laws handed
down by God to man."
OF johnson. he said that this
erstwhile prince of the deranged
alphabet makes ready 70 appear at
the funeral OF NRA like unto the
colored lady in Mississippi who there
asserted: I Is de wife Of desc re-
mains"
Declaring that the Roosevelt ad-
ministration, Mr. johnson, Mr..
Farley, Mr.. Aston and all their
spoilers and spellbinders" are gun
ming fol him because they think
he is the "cauSe Of their misery
he said:
They are like old Davy Crockett.
who went out to hunt q poSSum.
He saw in the CLEAN Of the moon
light that a possum in the top OF
the tree was going from limb 70
limb. He shot and missed. He saw
the poSSum again. He fired q second
time and missed again Soon he
discovered that II vas not a poSSum
he saw at all ir the top OF that
tree. 1t was a louise In his own eye
brow"