National Affairs: Pickings & Choosings

Within the two great parties more picking and choosing for the November elections is done the second week in September than at any other time during the year. Last week partisans in ten States held their primaries to select candidates.

Demagog into Dictator. When New Orleans Democrats went to the polls to select two Congressmen, a State Supreme Court judge and a Public Service commissioner, Senator Huey Pierce Long had 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...

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