Evening star., 1935-03-08
LONG BLAST HELD
EFFORT FOR 1886
Democratic High Command
Meets Attack With
Frigid Silence.
BY the Associated Press.

onslaught on tne HOOSeVelL aQmlHlS-
tration.
Observers noted that, after assail-
ing the New Deal as a "St. Vitus
Dance" and Hugh s. johnson as a
general who never smelled powder
or heard q cap snap" the Louisiana
dictator seized the opportunity to at
tempt, before his huge radio audience,
to hammer home his "share-the-
wealth" ideas.
They wondered If that were not an
emphatic new indication Of an effort
to gather strength for the 1895 cam
paigns-in which some observers fore
see the possibility Of q third party
movement
OF the men who have struck at
Long in the past few days, only john
son had any immediate comment on
last nights speech. The former Blue
Eagle chief who is in Providence, r.
l., said: ITS a great joke"-and for
the time being let it 60 at that.
He is saving his fire until after
Father Charles e. Coughlin of Detroit
replies Monday night to the John
sonian charge that both the priest
and the Louisiana Senator are
demagogues appealing to the abused
babies" of depression.
Robinson Listens In.
Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, who has tangled
with Long on the Senate floor. tuned
in on the speech last night, but had
no comment. He told newSmen who
talked with him while the speech was
going on, that he hadn't heard any
thing to which he wanted to reply
Senator Bailey of North Carolina,
another whom Long has threatened
to send to political oblivion, said he
hadn't heard the speech and wasn't
interested" Neither was Senator Byrd,
Virginia Democrat, who denounced
Long as q demagogue in recent
speech.
Longs latest onslaught was termed
by Senator Clark, Democrat, Of
Missouri, as IAN adroit piece OF
demagoguery," but in general it caused
little stir on Capitol Hill.
What did you think of it?" Senator
Bilbo. Democrat, OF Mississippi was
asked today.
He didn't say anything to make me
think" he replied
| Flags Arms as He Speaks. g..
| Long failed his arms as much as
ever as he contended in the radio
speech that the White House had de-
clared war on him and chosen "the
late and lamented, the pampered 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 O manuscript, which he fol-
lowed part Of the time. One of his
departures from it was his disparag-
ing reference to Johnson's military
prowess. Another was his contention
that when johnson went out of N. r.
A. he prepared "a blistering state
ment" which never saw the light of
day.
The reason it was suppressed, he
said, was that Wall Street might
want to loan him TO some other Presi-
dent in the future" Once, he
changed a more elegant appellation
for his foes to the phrase those birds
opposing me-"
| God save the country from the
misery and distress of that gang" he
said.
| To the support of his plan to cut
the wealth Of all rich men down to
| $4,000, 900 or 100000 and otherwise
distribute riches. he summoned the
Bible and the compact made by the
pilgrim fathers.
Laws Handed Down by God"
while my urgings are declared by
some to be the rawlings of a madman -
he said. "and by such men as Gen.
johnson as insincere bait Of q Pied
Piper. if you will listen to me you
will find that it is restating the laws
handed down by God to man"
OF johnson he said that this erst-
while prince Of the deranged alphabet
makes ready to appear at the funeral
of the N. r. A. like unto the colored
lady in Mississippi who there as
serted: I is de wife of desc remains "
Declaring "the Roosevelt admins
tration, MIR. Johnson. Mr.. Farley, Mr.
Astor and all their spielers and SPELL
binders" are cunning for him because
they think he is the cause of their
misery" he said:
They are like old Davy Crockett,
who went out to hunt 'possum He
saw in the gleam of the moonlight
that 'possum in the top of the tree
was going from limb to limb. He
shot and missed. He saw the 'possum
again. He fired q second time and
missed again. Soon he discovered
that 1t was not q 'poSsum he saw at
all in the top of that tree. It was q
louise IN his own eyebrow"
Kitchen Cabinets the Same.
The kitchen cabinets" under Presi-
dents Roosevelt and Hoover were the
same, he said-"Maybe you see q
little change in the man waiting on
the tables, but back in the kitchen
the same set of cooks"
| Mr.. Hoover's plan, he said, was to
plow up every fourth row of cotton,
but MIR. Roosevelt plowed up every
third row.
so it has been that while millions
have starved and gone naked; so 1t
has been that while babies have cried
and died for milk; so it has been that
while people have begged for meat and
bread, Mr.. Roosevelt's administrator
has sailed merrily along"
As for N. r. A., he said it became a
national scandal" johnson went out
"as the scapegoat" and If an N. r. A.
parade were called now, you couldn't
get enough people for a funeral
march"
He said that with the "P. w. AS,
c. w. AS, N. r. AS, A. A. AS,
j. U. G.'s, G. I. MS, and every other
f1imsy combination, the country finds
its affairs and business tangled to
where no one can recognize It,"