"Two years later someone else in the neighborhood dropped dead and Daley took his place in the state senate, going in by the front door, finally as a democrat," Mike Royko, Boss.Who was the mysterious "someone else" mentioned above. How did he hold on to that senate seat for twenty-eight years, being from McKinley Park not Bridgeport. The owner of a saloon in a hotel at Clark and Randolph across from City Hall adjacent to County Democracy Hall. First elected to the central committee in nineteen hundred. This book is a pungent and precise portrait of a man who gave his life to the democratic party. A working man of the working man's party. He was a lumber handler, steam fitter, gas fitter, saloon keeper, boxing enthusiast, bootlegger, Worlds Fair Committee member, elder statesman and mentor to not a few. A colorful character in city and state politics for a generation. Mary: Take the billy but don't take the gun.Paddy: Things are liable to get rough.Another election night has begun in Chicago Before Daley.