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Liberty under Siege, p. 100
Many millions of roadside stoppages ... habituate a free
people to highway roadblocks, highway police threats, to
constant fear of arrest, to the sight and smell of the Police
power cracking its whip at random....
Liberty under Siege, p. 217
Indispensable Enemies, p.
24
The whole purpose of party organizations at every political
level is to sift out, sidetrack and eliminate men of
independent political ambition, men whom the party bosses
cannot trust. Indispensable Enemies,
p. 73
"Compassion" — the rulers' pity for their subjects. Indispensable Enemies, p. 85 TLD's home page
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The left and right wings of the party establishment —
two great pinions of an ancient bird of prey.
Party organizations cannot afford to take
chances. They will even try to defeat a party hack if
his victory would prove inconvenient. In 1956, Richard Daley,
Democratic boss of Cook County, was still consolidating his
hold over the Illinois party, and he feared
that any Democratic governor might stand in the way.
Unfortunately for Daley, open scandal in the Republican
administration made the election of a Democratic governor
highly likely. To help ensure defeat, Daley gave the
nomination to a machine hack with proven lack of statewide
appeal, namely the former Cook County treasurer. By
mid-September, however, when it became clear that the
Democratic candidate was faring well, the newspapers were
mysteriously provided with proof that the former Cook
County treasurer had been fiddling with public funds.
Having supplied the proof, Daley now indignantly
demanded that the guilty man step out of the race. In his
place Daley put up an even more obscure figure, who
averted danger to the Democratic organization by narrowly
losing. Not winning elections is not always easy.