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...Daley summoned the state's top political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around...
...Hanrahan was offered a circuit court judgeship as a consolation prize, but he turned it down. He said he would prefer to serve on the Illinois appellate court. That seemed to be asking a bit much for a man currently under indictment, so Daley demurred. Hanrahan marched before television cameras and announced that he would not withdraw from the race for state's attorney. Said he: "That would be the Black Panthers' biggest campaign propaganda victory...
With the machine against him, he does not stand much chance of winning the primary. It is the trouble he can cause that alarms the Democrats. As state's attorney, says a top Chicago politician, "Hanrahan knows where all the bodies are buried and where all the skeletons hang. He's just bullheaded enough, if pushed, to declare war on the machine." In other words, though no one would have believed it a month ago, Hanrahan is in danger of becoming a reformer...
...With the Hanrahan defection, party regulars fear the worst-for example, a probe of Chicago cops in the style of New York City's Knapp Commission. Already the names of several dozen people who say their signatures were forged on Berg petitions have been handed to Hanrahan for investigation. Even if he is dropped from the ticket, Hanrahan still has another year in office in which to make trouble...
Still hoping to make a deal with Hanrahan, Daley is trying to put a bright face on the affair. "This shows the strength of the Democratic Party," he says gamely. "You can have differences of opinion and you can work them out at the polls. We're having an open primary...