Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1935-04-25

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This is the opinion not of a Long
supporter, but of one of the key men
in the fight against the Kingfish in
Louisiana. The North, he said, is
misled into dismissing him as
clown, and has no conception OF
Hueys talents and of his almost in
vincible mass appeal. Mrs. Hattie
Caraway of Arkansas can testify to
his powers, for when she entered the
primary asking to succeed her late
husband in the United States Senate,
she was generally expected to run
last among five candidates and to
poll not more than 1000 votes. The
four men against her were experienced
and able. But Huey took his sound
van into Arkansas for one week. and
though he could not get into every
county, he made a circular tour dur
ing which he spoke six times day.
Instead of 1000 votes Mrs. Caraway
won a majority over the combined
opposition in the first primary, tanta-
mount to election in a Democratic
state. An analysis of the vote showed
that the districts where Huey did
not appear virtually ignored her,
her a landslide.
Huey to Strike.
When his hour strikes, Huey will
attack the rest of America with the
same vehemence. That probably will
be during the campaign of 1886 His
platform will be the capital levy,
strangely enough his exclusive posses
sion as a political theme. He will
Coughlin against the money interests
of Wall Street and against the evil
of large fortunes.
He will pose as a misunderstood
man, and to most listeners he will
give their first information of what
he has accomplished in Louisiana.
He will be direct, picturesque, and
amusing. relief after the attentu-
ated vagueness of most of the ma
tional speaking today. He will prom
Use nest egg of $4,000 for every de-,
serving family in America, this to be
the minimum of poverty in his brave
new world. He rashly will under
take to put all the employables to
work in few months. He will assaif
President Roosevelt with a passion
which may at first offend listeners,
but in the end he might stir up OPP
position of bitterness the President
has not tasted in his life
obviously no
the country still has hopes of the
success of the New Deal and trusts
the President. Huey's chances de-
pend ON those sands of hope and trust
running out. He is no menace if the
President produces reform and recov-
cry. But if in two years, even six,
misery and fear are not abated in
America, the field is free to the same
kind of promise-mOngers who swept
away Democratic leaders in Italy and
Germany. Huey believes Roosevelt
can be beaten as early as 1886. but
he is prepared to agitate for another
four years. In 1910 he will still be
young man of forty-six.
Huey's Method.
Over the radio, if he follows the
technique he uses at home, Huey will
begin something like this: Hello,
friends, this is Huey Long speaking.
And have some very important rev.
Citations to make. But before l begin.
| want you to do me a favor. / am
going to talk along without saying
anything special for four or five min
utes. just to keep things going. While
I'm doing that / want you to go to-
the telephone and call up five of your
friends, and tell them Huey Long is
on the air, and has some very i'm
portant revelations to make" Thus
he builds up an audience. He them
can hold it for an hour or even two,
weaving a speech of argument and
anecdote and special pleading which
is entertaining and inform ative, and
quietly eats away any latent prejud-
Ice OF his listeners. The country win
make his acquaintance over the afr
before it does on the stump. Louis
lana State University is to have new
radio station of fifty-kilowatt power,
strong enough to reach all but distant
states. l.. s. U. is Huey's university.
and this will be his station. 1t is a
basic factor in his national plan.
| (Since this was written he has given
the first of two talks over National
Broadcasting Company network. in
troduced as described above and in
GLIDING a strong attack on the Presi-
dent.)
Publishes Paper.
He does not expect the support Of
the press. But the "1yin newspapers"
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