The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-16
MRS. JONES HELPED

1nGn D group or DuSlneSS men started looking for a new candidate for governor some man who was beyond reproach and who could be trusted all the way up to the hilt and who at the same time had the ability which any governor who took over L'ouiSiana's messy govern. ment would Sorely need.
 One of these men was a rich sugar planter named W. Prescott Foster, who had no desire at all tc get into politics = and who, 6 year later, was to find himself taking charge of the state highway de- partment to clean up as ugly 6 situation as any dabbler in poli- tics ever tackled.
 Another was an auto deale, named E. A. Stevens a friendly Bammity sort of man who had an unsuspected willingness to get out and work for decent government and who benes that word "Bab- bitt" by the fact that he has made the search for a solution to the unemployment problem his lei. Sure- time hobby.
 Another was a middle-aged law. yer named Eugene Stanley, an ex. district attorney who had recently fought a lawsuit that broke thu Long machines airtight control ovel the states election machinery. Another was younger lawyel named J. Rayburn Monroe, formel protege of Felix Frankfurter Anc friend of Tommy Corcoran; q man whom the Long people vert later to deride, Intellectually, ., just another Bright Young Man.
 After many canvassers, these r1er agreed on Sam Houston Jones, q rising corporation lawyer from Lake Charles. They knew he wal honest and able. He had beer state commander of the American Legion, which gave him a wide ac. quaintance. He had been in poll. tics to the extent of serving for . time as an assistant district at. torney.
 A delegation headed by roste, called on Jones.
 "Sam," said Foster, we've come to talk about the race for gover. nor"
 That's fine, Pres." said Jones T think you ought to run" They talked ali afternoon ant evening. enlisting the aid of lovely Mrs. Jones to persuade their mar 1t was his civic duty. He agreed at last, on condition that it bs prover that Rogge's federal prose. cutions were on the level--Lo,iisi. anians having been a bit gun-shN ever since the infamous 'secont Louisiana purchase" Monroe wen to Washington to see Corcoran atlt came back with assurances tha' things were on the up and up. Jonel became Q candidate.
 MYSTERY OF THE
 EXTRA BALLOT BOX
 Pass over the first primary, fl which Jones ran second to Ear Long in a field of five candidatel and thus won . place in the ina run-off and come down to tn, morning of the showdown, electiof day.
 Jimmy Noe, who had run thire in the first primary, was working for Jones, and working hard. II his New Orleans headquarters tha' morning sat his city campaign manager. Walker Saussy, ponder. ing strange mystery: the mys' tery of the fourth ballot box. At the polling places that da, there were the three customar, ballot boxes = one for the statl ticket ballots, one for local ballots and one for spoiled ballots bu1 somehow there was c fourth On, there, and Saussy was worried. HI knew the Long people were out ts beat Jones by any and every tricl in the books, and he knew that fourth ballot box was Q part oi one of these tricks, but he couldn'i just figure where 1t fitted in.
 Suddenly there appeared in hi of7ice 6 drunk, Q ragged, ne'er-do. well sort of chap with . talkine jag on. Who he was and how hG got in. saussy doesn't know to thil day; all of a sudden he was Jus, there on the other side of the desk telling 6 long story about how hs went to the polls to vote for Joncl and got led astrey by Long work. CTS and given a Mickey Finn saussy waved him away without luck, and tried not to listen.
 UNKNOWN DRUNK
 FINAL HERO
 Suddenly saussy pricked up ,hiI ears and listened for al he va worth. ..
 The drunk, being stalwart, hae survived the Mickey Finn ali right and had listened while the Lonr workers talked and what they had talked about. what the drunk wAs now babblins for eaussy te hear. was that mysterious fourth ballot box. Here, as the stew-hunl unfoldcd it Was the schene: