ILLINOIS: By the River
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After the returns were in, the rheumy-eyed old Mayor sat at home, cigar ashes spilling on his vest, and muttered defiance. "The crusaders got me," he mumbled, "but the people will be asking me to run again. Why do they always talk about the goddam girls? I didn't put stools in the bars for them to sit on."
But nobody really thought Peoria would become Illinois' holy city if Laundryman Triebel beat the Democratic nominee, Tom Madden. One of Triebel's backers on The Bluff, the town's fashionable residential section, made it plain that even reform is liberal in Peoria. Said he: "We've got to have control, here. Gambling will be supervised and the prostitutes will have to be licensed."
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