Your editorial on ”Chicago`s night of infamy” is correct when it describes the appalling process that propped up Eugene Sawyer as ”titular”
mayor.
But you`re dead wrong to condemn the crowd, including myself, that assembled at City Hall. While reporters in the field described us variously as ”orderly,” ”more polite than most aldermen,” ”noisy” and ”in a joking and chatty mood,” you insist on parroting the machine aldermen in calling the crowd a ”mob.”
The Machine will never comprehend spontaneous and open participation in politics, but The Tribune should.
Resorting to the word ”mob” is wrong. Tossing some quarters at an alderman does not make the whole group a bloodthirsty gang, and some crazies who phone in a handful of death threats are an unfortunate side effect that must be put into perspective.
