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...small, possibly doomed, but significant revolt against Mayor Richard Daley is being staged in Illinois by dissident Democrats. The movement's unofficial leader: State Treasurer Adlai Stevenson III, who last month helped found a legislative study group in the state capital of Springfield. The group's aim is to end the feudal system of Democratic party politics within the state and to broaden participation in policymaking. To give the group the aura of legitimacy, Stevenson asked Hubert Humphrey to drop by and confer the blessing of his titular party leadership...
This infuriated Daley, and his lieutenants used political muscle against legislators who wanted to attend. One was warned that he would face a machine-supported opponent in the next primary if he went to the meeting. Another was told he would be reapportioned out of his seat if he continued his association with the group. A third was bluntly advised that he was keeping the wrong company...
Numerically, the Daley tactics appeared to work. Of 99 Democratic legislators, only 25 showed up for the meeting in Springfield. Humphrey, however, insisted that the absence of the Da-leymen didn't bother him. He added: "I intend to encourage the formation of groups like this all over the country, in all 50 states...
Next day, Humphrey visited city hall in Chicago for a 20-minute chat with the mayor. Emerging, Humphrey fulsomely praised Daley as a "constructive force in the Democratic Party" and "one of the truly outstanding mayors of the nation." What was the former Vice President up to? Clearly, he was out to knit together as best he could his party in Illinois while protecting his own interests. He wanted neither to outrage Daley nor to frustrate Adlai Stevenson. Daley represents the faction that had assured Humphrey the presidential nomination last year; Stevenson symbolizes the younger, more independent element that...
...Pigs invasion story eight years ago "in the national interest." But, in the end, was the suppression in the national interest? Because of journalists' guilt over the assassination of Robert Kennedy (they felt they had sensationalized their coverage of him) and over the Chicago Convention riots (Mayor Daley was right, the nation said), because of their guilt about actually affecting the our come of a presidential election, these journalists chose to lay off Nixon and Humphrey during the presidential campaign of the fall. As a result, Nixon was allowed to run a public relations show that left him virtually untouched...