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...mobilized Louisiana's entire national guard to insure a "clean election." He had also made his Legislature pass enough laws month before to turn over to his henchmen complete control of the electoral machinery (TIME, Aug. 27). No match for the "Kingfish" in legislative wiles, Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley had an augmented police force of 2,000 which nearly equalled Senator Long's militant manpower...
...Orleans "Old Regular" Democratic organization swore a battle to the death, alarmists had predicted that Canal Street would run red with blood on primary day. A frightened citizens' committee at the last moment persuaded Senator Long to confine his troops to Jackson Barracks if Mayor Walmsley would keep his police in their station houses. Result: most peaceful election in years...
Last month Boss Long tried to capture the realm of Mayor Thomas Semmes Walmsley of New Orleans by force of arms. Guardsmen were marched into the city and the vote registry office was taken over by machine-gunners (TIME, Aug. 13). Because the courts tended to interfere with his use of the military in such political rough & tumble, "Kingfish" Long ordered Governor Allen, his office-holding stooge, to call the Legislature of Longsters into special session to legalize and regularize such tactics. Within four days the senior Senator from Louisiana had been given everything he wanted...
Meantime horrendous weapons were displayed. In the registrar's office gunning guardsmen mounted four machine guns on shiny-topped desks. Through open windows the guns were trained upon the City Hall opposite. Mayor Walmsley swore in 500 new police, bought a dozen submachine guns, threatened to annihilate the guardsmen if they interfered with city government. All these martial preparations landed New Orleans on the front page of the nation's Press. The country held its breath in excitement for the outbreak of local war, with St. Charles Street running blood and the dead piled high in LaFayette Square...
Cried Mayor Walmsley: "Huey Long . . . that madman! . . . coward! . . . pirate! . . . Caligula! . . . Nero! Attila! Henry VIII! Louis...