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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1239)	12/22/1998 9:14:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Respond to of 13018

"That's like being the elephant who's best at sticking its thumb up its trunk." Mike Royko So long, Mike Tribune Editorial Board April 29, 1997 Chicago hardly suffers at the departure of one of its inexhaustible supply of sycophants, stumblebums and thieves, secure in the knowledge that another will always show up the next morning with notions of making a quick buck in a fast town. Chicago suffers deeply today, because it has lost its great chronicler of those poseurs and self-appointed princes, and he will never be replaced. Inside Royko's copy of "The Neon Wilderness,'' there is this handwritten inscription by Nelson Algren: Because he has it in his head, To kill all bad guys till they're dead, May happy phantoms guard Mike's bed! May happy phantoms guard him now. This newspaper, this town, weeps.

To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (1239)	12/22/1998 9:17:00 AM
From: Volsi Mimir	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13018

On the other hand, there were financial vices. And if somebody in City Hall saw a chance to make a fast bundle or two, Daley wasn't given to preaching. His advice amounted to: Don't get caught. But that's Chicago, too. The question has never been how you made it, but if you made it. This town was built by great men who demanded that drunkards and harlots be arrested, while charging them rent until the cops arrived. If Daley sometimes abused his power, it didn't offend most Chicagoans. The people who came here in Daley's lifetime were accustomed to someone wielding power like a club, be it a czar, emperor, king, or rural sheriff. The niceties of the democratic process weren't part of the immigrant experience. So if the machine muscle offended some, it seemed like old times to many more. Mike Royko December 21, 1976 excerpts from The Chicago Daily News published this column on Dec. 21, 1976, shortly after Mayor Richard J. Daley's death.