Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explain the predictability of Boston's elections. Several plausible theories can be advanced but their mutual exclusiveness can be extremely puzzling. It is fair to say that the Boston electorate is quite conservative, law-and-order oriented, and votes in candidates that go along with it. But no one can determine why Bostonians would sweep Hicks, an outspoken anti-black politician, into office with an amazing plurality, and give second place to Tom Atkins, a liberal black from Roxbury who finished a badly beaten 16th in the primaries...
Necessarily, then, any successful candidate is going to have to sway votes in Roslindale, Hyde Park, Allston, Jamacia Plain and Charlestown- sections where one's neighborhood would not get him elected, but where his conservatism could. Since every candidate knows it, they all take the same stands. Naturally, the traditional pattern held up once again. Law-and-order, improved neighborhoods (without urban renewal), better schools, and closer-watched city finances are always successful platforms in Boston, but any serious candidate knows it, so there is little hope of selecting councillors by the issues. And drawing the vote from one...
...election then is incumbency and favorable ballot position. Close examination of the high position-large vote ration shows that Bostonians often select the first nine candidates on the ballot- or the first eight plus Hicks. Bulleting, the casting of a vote for only one candidate, also finds widespread...
...brought him the chairmanship, and the disclosure of his ties with a Dorchester school repairs contractor got him into the headlines. Thievery, or the hint of it, is popular in a city that once elected a mayor after he had served a jail sentence for embezzlement of city funds. One could turn fraud into election if he attached a Robin Hood charisma to it. In the best James Michael Curley tradition. Kerrigan won in a landslide...
HICKS, however, is another story. She comes across as a simple housewife with an "I'm one of you" image. Her platform is simple, and perhaps, oversimplified. Hicks openly stated during her campaign that Roxbury's racial trouble was caused by outsiders, and insisted: "The people of Roxbury have been living in harmony with the rest of the city for years." This philosophy reassured an electorate that was looking outside the city for answers to its internal problems. With matronly pollworkers suggesting, "Don't forget Louise," she devastated the field...