Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1940 — Page 13

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FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1940

Fighting Editor of South Picks Up Pen After Trading Blows With Mississippi Governor

the Governor's statement said. Maj. Sullens permitted a physician to bandage his head and returned to the scene of combat. He said Mr. Johnson had engaged in “a cowardly attempt to assassinate me.” “The incident will not deter the Daily News in its fight to preserve decent government in Mississippi and to block the vicious legisla-! tion proposed by Governor Johnson,” he said. “I was about to enter the elevator

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mansion,” their) when Governor Johnson slipped up|stopped the fight. The Governor tion of the Jackson Daily News. He from behind a large marble pillar| was surrounded by a bodyguard of [served two terms in Congress, was and struck me on the back of the henchmen, none of whom attempted defeated when he sought a third. head with a heavy cane. I did not|to interfere until I got him down| Maj. Sullens is well known in see Governor Johnson until after across the chair.” {Southern journalism as a fighting the blow was struck. He had just| ' Maj. Sullens and Governor oJhn- editor of the old Southern school raised his cane to strike again when son have been bitter personal ene-!immortalized by Mark Twain, who I grappled with him and threw him mies for 20° years growing out of described, in his “Journalistic Wild across a chair sitting just behind the fact that Maj. Sullens, in his Oats,” editors calmly composing the pillar where he had been con- editorial function, has always op- their leaders while enemies were cealed. : posed Mr. Johnson politically. Mr. throwing bricks through the win“I had snatched his eye glasses Johnson ran three times for Gov- dows, dropping bombs down the from his face and was trying to ernor before he was finally elected, chimney, shooting at them from pummel him when spectators | always against the staunch opposi-|various vantage points

JACKSON, Miss, May 3 (U. P.).— bat with Governor Johnson in the, the back of the head with his walk-|fused to make a statement. Head bandaged but dignity un-|crowded lobby of the Walthall Hotel. |ing stick. Later Highway Commissioner T. ruffled, Major Frederick Sullens| The Jackson Daily News has been| Blood pouring from his wound, |P. Brady, a member of Mr. JohnWrote editorials in his sanctum at unfriendly toward the Johnson ad-|the editor whirled and leaped upon|son’'s Administration, and Mundell the Jackson Daily News today and {ministration as it has been toward the Governor. In .-a flash, the| Bush, another of his friends, issued the chances were that they pilloried | Governor Johnson during all of Governor was sprawled across a|a statement in his behalf. They Governor Paul B. Johnson in Maj. Sullens’ 35 years as its editor.|chair and Maj. Sullens was on top had been present in the lobby, they scathing language. Governor Johnson was conversing | of him. Deliberately, the editor re- said. The Governor had walked Maj. Sullens, an editor of the old| with Maj. G. W. Buck of Yazoo moved the Governor's eye glasses 15 feet while Maj. Sullens watched Southern journalistic school which|City when the erect, scholarly ed- and then started pounding his face him, they said, to get near enough combined an acrid pen with a will-|itor came strolling through. Wit-|with his fists. When spectators to cane Rim, ied $6 his ingness to defend an editorial opin- nesses said that the 60-year-old pulled the editor off, the Governor's Ry ens Na re walked lon with pistol, saber, or fist, lived| Governor pushed Buck aside and|face was very red. He was taken to room and Governor Jo nso wal d Up to the tradition in personal com-|struck the 63-year-ol editor across|the executive mansion where he re- out of the hotel and proc

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