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Perhaps it is still true, as former Chicago Alderman Mathias "Paddy" Bauler said in 1955 after Mayor Richard J. Daley's election, that "Chicago ain't ready for reform...
...make good on his inaugural promise-"Business as usual will not be accepted by the people"-the city's Democratic political Establishment came together in a new, sometimes unseemly vigor, determined to outmaneuver and outbellow the antimachine mayor. To paraphrase the 1955 words of the late alderman Paddy Bauler, it seemed that Chicago was not quite ready for reform yet-not Harold Washington's brand, for sure...
...mercy, love, charity, and walk humbly with my God." Not even Daley's best friends really believed him. And on the night of his victory, the freewheeling old politicians fairly danced in the streets. Across Chicagoland flew the jubilant cry of a colorful saloonkeeper and alderman named Paddy Bauler. "Chicago," he roared, "ain't ready for reform...
Perhaps not. But Daley has certainly not been the sort of mayor that Bauler, or anyone else, expected. Says Jake Arvey today: "I've served under five mayors, and I think I know my men. When Daley first became county chairman and then mayor. I did not think it would work out. I felt his work as mayor would be colored by his political obligations, and on that ground I opposed him. I think now I was wrong." The Republican Chicago Tribune (which has backed Democrats on infrequent occasions) agrees. When Daley was running for his second term...
...young Harvard-educated blueblood who is attempting to toss politics' roistering Dead End Kid, Ald. Mathias "Paddy" Bauler (43d), out of office is going to carry his fight to every precinct in the ward...