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...gloom was justified. The vote tallies had spoiled their plans and struck the machine a staggering blow. For the first time since 1938, the Cook County organization had lost a primary. Not only had Edward Hanrahan beaten the machine's candidate, Raymond Berg, for state's attorney, but Insurgent Daniel Walker had won the party nomination for Governor against Paul Simon, now the Lieutenant Governor. Five machine-backed state legislators from Chicago had also gone down to defeat before independent candidates. As he moodily paced a corridor in the hotel, a ward boss remarked: "This is like waiting...
...Daley ticket was trounced by a combination of the Old and the New Politics. The old was represented by "Fast Eddie" Hanrahan, who returned from the political dead-and as everyone knows, the dead do not vote in Chicago unless Daley tells them to. Daley had originally endorsed Hanrahan for reelection, but party pressure forced the mayor to dump him from the ticket. A grand jury had indicted Hanrahan for obstructing justice in the investigation of the killing of two Black Panthers by the police...
Surprise Dessert. Hanrahan, however, decided to fight back, and he had the resources to do so. As U.S. Attorney for Northern Illinois and as state's attorney, he had built up a reputation as a zealous law enforcer. He asked voters during the campaign: "Would you want your law enforcement carried out by me or by a nice fellow?" A volatile man, he buttonholed precinct captains to remind them who he was and what they owed him. When he found that doors were locked at ward meetings, he sometimes tried to bash them down. He claimed that...
...Hanrahan was originally slated as the organization's choice, but was dumped after he was indicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice in connection with a police raid in which two Black Panthers were killed...
...Hanrahan's victory, meanwhile, is not only a blow to the machine's prestige, but could be very troublesome to the organization in view of the political power of the State's Attorney's office...