The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-10

For though his bullet-torn body has lain buried for eight years, his memory, his cohorts, and his brother are still strong.
 During the first years of Gov. Sam Jones anti-Long administra- tion, the spotlight which shone down on Huey Longs grave in front of the Capitol in Baton Rouge was never extinguished- in deference to the thousands who still thought of the Kingfish as king.
 And no matter what happens ill the current cut-throat pri- marieS to be held February 29, Louisiana will still be blessed, or cursed, with considerable amount of Longism, for his brother Earl is sure to come out as lieutenant governor.
 And if singing, sulnshining Jim- my Davis, the radio crooner who took his cue from radio actor Senator pappy O'Daniel in Texas, is finally elected governor, he (Jimn1y) will probably go to Hol- lywood to make dance records, leaving Earl Long in virtual con- trol. Davis won the states first Democratic primary held on Jan. 18th.
 The other gubernatorial candi- date, ex-Congressman William Morgan, was Ruey'S counsel at the Kingfish impeachement pro- ceedings. So either way, though Huey Longs body may be smolder- ing in the grave, his work, for better or worse, goes march ing on. Earl Long is candidate for lieutenant governor on Nor gan's ticket.
 Louisiana, however, does not believe in pallid substitutions. It wants it's Kingfish rip-roaring in the flesh or else not all all. This was the explanation of the pricked-balloOn fizzle in the January primary of Congress- man James Morrison, whom the Saturday Evening Post described as "the minnOw who could be kingfiSh."
 The article was a masterpiece of scathing criticism. But illus trative of ''Minnow Morrison and the attitude of the Louisiana e.ec- torate is the fact that he adver- tised the article over the radio and had tear-sheets pasted all over the doors and windows of his campaign headquarters.
 Anyone who is written LID in the Saturday Evening Post" he beloved, "is important. That's what they think of Jimmy Mor- risOn up North"
 MYSTERIOUS MONEY
 Biggest mystery about the Lou isiana campaign is where Jimmy Morrison got the thousands he dumped into radio hookups, road side billboards and parish-work- CTS, throughout the state. It is commonly reported that he spent $2OO,000, which is nothing to Sneeze at, even in Louisiana.
 How Jimmy raised $2OO,OOO or even half of that in view of the fact that he had trouble even in paying his own hotel bill in Washington, and the fact that Standard Oil is suing him for nOn-payment of 5000 worth of gasoline from a previous cam- paign, has everybody in the state guessing.
 One answer to the mystery is reported to be a certain gentle man who sits in the lobby of the Heidelberg Hotel in Baton Rouge and who was one of Morrison,s mysterious outside bakers. He is William Baldwin Shearer, self styled Big Bass Drum" because of his tendency toward self ad- vertiSement. He is the man who paid the big steel companies to break up the Geneva Naval Conference in 1927.
 Shearer is one of Washington,s most mysterious lobbyists. Dur ing the more peaceful days when Presidents Coolidge and Hoover were trying to stabilize the navies of the world, he received large amounts of money from Bethle- hem, Newport News Shipbuilding company, Brown -Boveri and oth- CTS to stir up trouble between the United States and England and sabotage armament agree mentS.