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...Stevenson-a former Texas Governor and onetime Parr favorite fallen from grace-was pitted against young Congressman Lyndon Johnson in a tight Democratic senatorial primary. Six days after the election, it looked as if Stevenson had won by 113 votes of the almost 1 million cast. But then one precinct of Parr-bossed Jim Wells County reported that it had discovered 202 ballots that had not been counted before-and 201 of them were for Johnson. Recriminations flew, but the Democratic state executive committee upheld L.B.J.'s nomination-and soon thereafter the last-minute ballots mysteriously disappeared. Johnson went...
Liquor Store Operator Joseph Schoen expressed a widespread fear: "I can't call for help." To deal with emergencies, the telephone company brought in mobile units and quickly restored service to the three hospitals, ten fire houses and two police precinct stations in the zone of silence. Ma Bell also set up 379 temporary pay phones in the 300-sq.-block area. Extra police cars cruised the phoneless area with their rooflights flashing; anyone who had an emergency message could stop them and transmit it by police radio...
...Chicago's city workers scurried about removing dead trees, filling potholes and handing out shiny new garbage cans to voters. On primary election day, Democratic-machine lieutenants stood two and three abreast at street corners on the predominantly black West Side to steer people to the polls. Assistant precinct captains in the 31st Ward solicitously helped voters find parking places and brushed the snow from their windshields. Ward heelers elsewhere rounded up the elderly, the infirm and even the West Madison Street derelicts and took them to the voting booths. In these and other ways, Chicago...
...Democratic ward committeeman. Afterward, Hoellen considered dropping out of the race against Daley. Said the Republican: "If I can't be elected alderman of the 47th Ward, it's impossible for me to be elected mayor." He called Daley's victory "the ultimate in precinct power. They could have elected a gorilla." Don Rose, a leader of the antimachine Democrats and former publisher of a community newspaper, added more fairly: "The man is an institution. He has a unique and special relationship with the city that borders on the religious...
Despite all of the mayor's campaign gaffes and his administration's scandals, few people are willing to predict that Singer will topple Daley in patronage-padded Chicago. The reasons were succinctly stated by Jack Guthman, a lawyer and Daley stalwart: "The precinct captains work late in the campaign." Indeed, the machine still controls 44 of Chicago's 50 wards. As the primary neared, Daley organization workers were canvassing door-to-door to deliver him enough votes to win the Feb. 25 primary, which would virtually guarantee victory in the April election over a token Republican candidate...