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...surly and dour, Hanrahan was at pains to demonstrate another side of his personality-one that people had not seen before. He developed a sense of humor. Marching in the St. Patrick's Day parade, he doffed his hat and released a white dove as he passed Mayor Daley. He engineered a surprise dessert for Daley's precinct captains when they gathered in support of Berg at a dinner. When they cracked open their fortune cookies, they found the message "Hanrahan...
...election night, Martha Mitchell called Hanrahan to gush, "I'm a Republican, but you're my kind of Democrat." Not much later, Mayor Daley also phoned his congratulations. "Politics is no different than sports," the mayor philosophized. "You win 'em and you lose 'em." Having defied the machine and won, Hanrahan returns to the fold with much more power than he had before he was kicked out. Unless he is convicted on criminal charges, he seems likely to beat his Republican opponent in the general election. He is, in fact, in a strong position to succeed...
...scarcely known outside Chicago. He had served as vice president and general counsel for Montgomery Ward, and had headed the commission that investigated the rioting during the 1968 Democratic Convention. His report was an even-handed indictment of both demonstrators and police, but it aroused the everlasting enmity of Daley and other law-and-order backers by referring to a "police riot...
...Last year Walker got publicity by walking 1,200 miles around the state, spreading a populist message: he roasted his opponent for suggesting an increase in the state income tax; he denounced some of Daley's proposed public works in Chicago; he opposed busing. But what he chiefly presented to the voters was Walker the man -straight-shooting, indignant, a mite self-righteous. He would lock eyes with his audience and demand: "Aren't you fed up with race-track and shoe-box politics?" It was an allusion to scandals that have embarrassed the Daley machine. Voters apparently...
Walker won with 52% of the vote, even running Simon a close race in areas of Chicago where the machine is strongest. While it will be easy for Old Politician Hanrahan to make up with Old Politician Daley, it will be harder, if not impossible, for New Politician Walker. Daley may well favor Walker's Republican opponent Governor Richard Ogilvie, the front runner in the November election. But it is Daley, basically, who must sue for peace because he took the licking. It has now been proved that the charismatic independent candidate-whether of the old school...