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To: average joe who wrote (2543)	6/13/2005 8:15:56 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5290

bookslut doesn't seem too impressed by that book, even says it's virtually useless. Do you see a value in the book? This is my current read. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish-American Gangster by T. J. English amazon.com I'm only a few pages in. So far I've picked up these tidbits of essential knowledge. Tip O'Neill wasn't the first guy to say "all politics is local." According to the author, an early Tammany sachem said it first. I'd have to go back and get the name, it's eluding me at the moment. Think I'm reaching the stage where I better make a note when coming across something like that. :-/ I had always thought PT Barnum said "there's a sucker born every minute" but the phrase was really coined by King Mike McDonald. >>>Organized crime in Chicago had its beginning in the 1870s with the activities of Michael Cassius McDonald (Nelli, 1970:148). McDonald owned a tavern at Clark and Monroe known as the Store which reportedly was the largest liquor and gambling house in downtown Chicago. It is said that it was McDonald (not P.T. Barnum) who coined the phrase, "There is a sucker born every minute" (Smith, 1954:28). McDonald reportedly made this statement when one of his employees expressed his fear that the Store was too big and that there would not be enough customers to make it profitable. McDonald was also interested in boxing. It was McDonald who gave John L. Sullivan the backing that enabled him to make his bid for the world’s heavyweight boxing championship in 1892. McDonald was also active in politics. In an effort to overcome the reform activities of Mayor Medill, McDonald organized Chicago’s saloon and gambling interests. "Mike McDonald’s Democrats," as they were called, elected their own candidate, Harvey Colvin, as Mayor of Chicago in 1873. With Colvin in office, McDonald organized the first criminal syndicate in Chicago composed of both gamblers and compliant politicians. After suffering a temporary setback at the polls in 1876, when Chicago elected reform Mayor Monroe Heath, Mike McDonald’s Democrats elected Carter Harrison as Mayor in 1879. The alliance between the gambling interests and politicians in Chicago proved to be very powerful. Harrison served four consecutive terms as Mayor from 1879 to 1887. ipsn.org