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E 5 STUFF T U F F By News PAUL Behind MALLON the News f r Note During Paul Mallon's presence at the Philadelphia convention convention convention con con- as an expert observer forThe for forThe forThe The Telegram Rodney Dutcher Butcher will ill write urite inside Washington news for this space Rend Read Mallon's MalIon's Mal Mal- lons lon's observations on the news s pages N By RODNEY DUTCHER WASHINGTON WASHINGTON-If If any of ot tho the kids start asking Hey mama what is politics during the conventions conventions conventions con con- you might give them a little lesson by telling what has been happening in Louisiana domain domain domain do do- main of the late lato Huey Long Almost unnoticed the government government government govern govern- ment moved the other day to dismiss dis dis- dismiss dis- dis miss criminal income tax evasion evasion eva eva- sion sin charges against Seymour Weiss chief henchman of Long and four other Long politicians in New Orleans Considering all the grim and earnest effort the administration applied in its attempt to break up Hueys Huey's machine by those income tax prosecutions prosecutions Including Including the hiring of such men as former Prohibition Administrator Amos W. W Woodcock and Governor ex-Governor Dan Moody of ot Texas as special prosecutors It prosecutors Itis ibis is Interesting now to hear the explanation of the abandonment given by some of the late Hueys Huey's heir lets The administration the they say simply has been very anxious for harmony In any event the end of the criminal income tax cases comes on top of a remarkable succession succession sion slon of decapitations of federal officials who represented the pro- pro administration group of Democrats Demo Dem and were appointed against the late Hueys Huey's bitter opposition One by one Jim Farley is knocking knocking knock knock- ing of off the men who a year ago were carr carrying ing the Roosevelt banner baner banner ban ban- ner er in Louisiana and andis is replacing them with politicians designated by the Long machine Feud Was Vas Hueys Huey's Own The Long people explain that the bitter fight between Long and Roosevelt was Hueys Huey's personal feud that lacking a great leader they're powerless to carry it on anyway and that they're quite content to dominate Louisiana without looking about for more fields to conquer as Huey did So the Louisiana delegation will willbe willbe willbe be whooping it up for Roosevelt at the Democratic convention theLong tho the Long machine politicians have forgotten all about Hueys Huey's proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed third party and the two Louisiana senators John H. H Overton Overton Over- Over Overton ton and Mrs Long have been playing ball with the tion And by way of at returning the tho compliments the admin administration is replacing its former loyal ap ap- ap- ap State P W A Administrator Frank Peterman has been succeeded succeeded succeeded suc suc- by a Long man Louisiana's Louisiana's Louisi Louisi- anas ana's federal housing administrator tor lost out in the tho same way Rufus Fontenot is still collector of internal revenue at New Orleans Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans but the Long machine has named the man mali to succeed him A Long man became postmaster in New Orleans in April The state representative of H HOLC 0 Leis Leison ison is ison on the way out according to Hueys Huey's followers They also promise that tho the jobs of U. U S. S marshal at New Orleans and Shreveport and the y J S S. S district at Shreveport will wUl soon be delivered to them Vote Victory Forces Hand With Huey gone the wholesale surrender of federal patronage to his followers became more expedient expedient ex ex- cx- cx than ever ever after aHer Louisiana's Louisiana's Louisi Louisi- anas ana's January primary election In that contest the Long machine piled up unprecedented majorities and swept into every office V down to that of the last dog dogcatcher The five Long anti-Long congressmen congress congress- men two of whom ran for senator and governor went down to de defeat defeat defeat de- de feat and the machine took over the entire delegation Just the same it would be in interesting interesting interesting in- in to know what those federal federal fed fed- federal eral officeholders once friends of Mr Farley Farey are thinking now Little Backing for Smith Hueys Huey's called so-called political heirs profess not to be especially in interested interested in- in Interested in the Rev Gerald L. L K Smiths Smith's proposed merger of the share wealth the wealth the m movement o 0 v e em in e n t with the Townsend movement i They say Smith was only a paid organizer of ot the wealth share-wealth clubs Protective copyrights on Share the Wealth and Share Our Wealth were taken out by Earle J. J former secretary secretary secretary secre secre- tary to Huey and now secretary to Mrs Long who is filling out outher outher outher her husbands husband's senatorial senatorial sena sena- tonal term has turned the copyrights over to Mrs Long Allen J. J Ellender Hueys Huey's former former for for- former mer speaker in the Louisiana legIslature legislature leg leg- who will come here next January for a year six-year senatorial term is pledged to raise the Share the We Wealth torch again and carry carryon on although no one suggests he will be anywhere near as effective as Huey was Headquarters of Share the Wealth are in New Orleans and large gobs of the late Hueys Huey's speeches are being sent out to In Interested Interested In- In parties but parties but not any of ot the speeches which attacked Roosevelt Also club buttons No one knows the extent to which the tho number of clubs and members dwindled d after Hueys Huey's assassination but decimation presumably presumably presumably pre pre- has been very large Copyright ht 1936 for The Telegram |