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...presidential possibilities. He provides the old venerated name for Carter's new flashy one, the establishment ties for Carter's anti-Washington constituency, the urban Midwest appeal for Carter's rural Southern one. Most importantly, Adlai finds himself in the unique position of simultaneously representing the party bosses like Daley, plus the liberals who admire the Senator's progressive legislative record and still tingle when they remember his father's greatness. This year the Daley wing is the more important of the two and in that sense Stevenson would represent Carter's insurance against another McGovern debacle. After being ejected...
Looking ahead to the fall, something else Carter needs is to carry Illinois. Every election since 1916 has found that state on the winning side, and Daley's superhuman efforts to put Illinois in Kennedy's column proved decisive in 1960 (to the chagrin of Republicans suspicious of "ghost voting" illegalities). Ford is very strong in Illinois--besides Michigan it was his most significant win--so if Carter expects to come away with those 25 electoral votes, he'll need the Mayor's whole-hearted support...
...CHOOSING Stevenson makes some sense. Whether in this strange election Carter will pay attention to what makes sense is a different question. What Jimmy must pay heed to, however, is clout--and that's a word Richard J. Daley put in the American vocabulary. If Daley so desires, he can bring a tremendous amount of pressure to bear on Carter to pick Stevenson. "Hizzoner da mare," as he is known to his Chicago friends, possesses hundreds of I.O.U.'s just waiting to be collected on. For years, Democratic politicians from across the country have come hat in hand to Daley...
Thus, in a peculiar way, the question really becomes one of what Daley wants to do, and this goes to the heart of the Daley-Stevenson relationship. Daley likes national prestige and the extra funds for Chicago that would result from having a hometown boy in the number two spot, but in truth he probably doesn't really care very much whether or not Adlai Stevenson the man, is vice-president...
...association between the two has not been a close one. Daley came up the hard way--to this day he lives in the old Irish-Catholic neighborhood in back of the stock yards on Chicago's South Side. It takes a lot of muscle to run a city like Chicago for over twenty years and that strength comes from a well-oiled patronage machine run by tough-talking, bowler-hatted ward bosses--Daley's own kind...