European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Ley legacy by the Lake he hold in Logel a through sheer Force of will and because As jams Winters wrote in notre Dame Magazine. Daley enter forgot the tenets of the old political order Good politics is Good government. Everybody gets something. You win in  the machine was credited with rousing even the dead to Vole in the 1960 presidential contest. Delivering a 465.000-Vole Ali Ira Juty Lor John of Kennedy in Cook county thai enabled him to win Illinois by 8.b5b Voles and defeat Richard Nixon Daley himself climbed the  and government ladders in the Best parly tradition office by office year by year never ailing to master the details he lost one elec Jon for Cook county Shemilt in 1946 and never lost again. He outlasted enemies because he was Loyal beyond expediency Irish and stubborn sober and thorough. Hie understood Power like few  said his son Richard m Daley the Cook county stale s attorney and an unsuccessful Candida be or the democratic mayoral nomination in 1933, Daley controlled 40,000 jobs and Wilh a detailed filing system knew where a most each one was who filled it and which Politico was the Patron. Businessmen believed if he cared to intervene Oaley could Sway any zoning decision decide any tax assessment matter influence any labor dispute people Are forever repealing Daley s phrase. Good politics is Good government " said mayor Harold Washington himself the son of a machine precinct Captain but whose 1983 election a Chicago s first Black mayor would shatter thai same machine the slue line of cily government was not an absolute Monolith like the soviet politburo Washington added but to was clearly the first among equals the Chicago Sun times contrasted Daley s pol Lical style with those of successors Michael Brandic Jane Byrne and Washington. Ihen marvelled Datey in his Day had a Knack of severing Heads so adroitly that the victims did i i find Oul about re until Fwy tried to put on choir hats Datey Mph those changes would Call in into question Chicago s Central location its greatest advantage and the reason the 211-Square-mile City became a great Daley exchanging a Quick handshake on a Chicago sidewalk he was mayor Tor 31 years. Part of Daisy s legacy it the Ca Tinl Antn Houting project once the me Wolgang War Andalay Nga in Wyst 1967 Windy City commercial Conler and the nation s  huh. Has become less important As Jet plan Raj and sophisticated communications systems Tai rank distances. The big shoulders portrayed by Poel Cirl Sandburg Affuso Sag under the four Jens oppressing Urban centers everywhere declining Federal revenues a shrinking manufacturing base an aging infrastructure a dwindling Middle class an exploding underclass. Such structural change May have prompted the Tumble in Chicago s Bond rating from a under Daley to tha current bus plus bul the inc lured stale of democratic politics since his death accelerated it he was Oilen asked to name a successor and to would name All of us said Byrne ultimately to All had our  Washington was among the first to Buck the party higher ups by opposing Bilandic in the democratic primary leading up to the 1977 special election following Daley s death. Washington managed just 11 percent of the vote failing to win even the Black vote Daley s ambitious and often distrustful hens settled on Bilandic As the machine s caretaker precisely because he was unassuming and because they wanted to ensure no one Man would Ever hold As much Pawer again two years later Bilandic was challenged in the democratic primary by another of the heirs apparent Byrne. Straw polls showed Sii Andic Wilh an overwhelming Lead bul in the month before the primary blizzards buried the cily under 6 eel of Snow streets went in slowed business unfinished Rains skipped inner City stops to make up loss time. Byrne s anti machine candidacy gained in Slang credibility and she scored a stunning upset. Be i on reaching office she Loo found n easier to Deal with he established interests convincing Many supporters she was As much a part of the machine As the Back room politicians she had once railed against Washington returned in 1983. This Lime Al the head of a fast growing and More sophisticated Black political movement. The most Loyal least represented and longest suffering element of the old machine had an engine of its own in the democratic primary Byrne and Richard m. Daley split the White Vole. Washington monopolized the Black vote and won. What remained of Daley s machine coalesced behind Alderman Edward r. Vrdolyak. With nearly All of the White aldermen in his Camp Vrdolyak promptly fashioned a City Council majority and in the running feud that came to be known As Council  made Washington s life difficult Lor three years though special elections last Spring so