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...Daley wanted this to be the largest parade ever held for a single individual. It would be bigger than the torchlight parades he organized for JFK and LBJ. The mayor is no Carter fanatic, but he needs a Carter victory to help carry his gubernatorial candidate, Michael J. Howlett, into office. So for Daley, control of the state is at stake; control means patronage, and patronage is power...
...many of whom also got their positions through a "sponsor." Even though I was only a summer intern in City Hall's "cleanest" department, seven fellow workers asked me who my "sponsor" was. Although I had none, I had to admit it didn't hurt any being related to Howlett...
...THAT IS exactly why Richard Daley needs Adlai Stevenson this year. Michael Howlett, secretary of state and a Daley man, knocked off anti-Daley incumbent Gov. Dan Walker in the March primary, but this fall Howlett faces a very tough race against the Republican candidate: former U.S. Attorney James R. Thompson. Thompson is the reformer who has sent dozens of Daley's closest friends and associates to jail in recent years and the mere mention of his name is enough to make the Mayor and his henchmen apoplectic...
...city council just went behind federal bars last month. All of this combined with the fact that he wants a friendly face in the statehouse after battling Walker every inch of the way for four years, could make the Mayor go to any lengths to destroy Thompson in November. Howlett defeated Walker by crushing him in Chicago, but downstate Walker carried almost every county. Howlett will need help down there if he is to triumph over Thompson. Stevenson is very popular in southern Illinois. If Daley honestly thinks his name on the ballot will give Howlett a boost, he might...
...offended almost every organization that could lend him support. The Illinois Education Association, angry at Walker for vetoing education bills, is backing Hewlett. The United Auto Workers are against the Governor because the state took an unconscionably long time to distribute unemployment checks. The Illinois State Employees Association supports Howlett, charging that Walker is "creating a shambles of orderly government...