In the 1919 mayoral campaign in Chicago, a young Richard J. Daley signed up as a precinct captain in Chicago's 11th Ward, and he hitched his wagon to the Cook County Democratic Organization, otherwise known as the Chicago machine.The operation was hierarchical - "as rigidly hierarchical as the Catholic Church," Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor write in their definitive Daley biography "American Pharaoh" - and membership came with a moral code involving utter fealty to those above you in the hierarchy, a willingness to reward or repay those faithful to you, an obligation never to question or undermine the party as a whole and to keep your nose out of intermural fights that were not your business.
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