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Re: Quotation curiosity



        Being from the Windy City, I remembered the quote as being
attributed to a Chicagoan.  The following hits are from a google.com search
using "vote & early & capone"--not at all to be considered an exhaustive nor
particularly scholarly.  I don't recall the source, but remember reading
that Capone's thugs were a "presence" at polling places during a mayoral vote.

http://www.greenleafenterprises.com/quotes/c.html says:
Vote early and vote often.
 -- Al Capone

According to: http://home.earthlink.net/~timsamuel/gangster.htm Big Bill
gets the honors.
        William Hale "Big Bill" Thompson. Republican Mayor of Chicago
1915-1923, 1927-31. Of only moderate intelligence, Thompson was easily
corrupted and without much control. He was anti-Prohibition, friend of
gangsters, and accepted payoffs. Thomspon's righ-hand-man, "Poor Swede"
Lundin virtually ran Chicago. His 1927 election happened very much because
of gangland assistance. Under Thomson Chicago almost went bankrupt, due to
misallocation and unexplained inconsistencies in the cities funds. Thomson
was ordered to pay back $2,245,000 ($22,245,000 today) to the city, and
suffered a nervous breakdown. He coined the phrase "Vote often and vote
early." He died on March 19, 1944--his safe deposit boxes revealed over 2
million dollars in assets.

And another vote for Al from: http://members.nbci.com/NHYM/ISSUES/quotes.html
"Vote early and vote often. " - Al Capone (1899-1947)


At 04:31 PM 9/27/00 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Daniel Sokolow@MCGRAW-HILL on 09/27/2000 04:31 PM
>
>
>To:   archives@listserv.muohio.edu
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>Subject:  Quotation curiosity
>
>Anybody out there know the genesis of the quote "Vote Early, vote Often"
that is
>ascribed to Chicago politics?  This is, believe it or not, an actual reference
>question.
>
>Every now & then something interesting actually comes along.
>
>Thanks,
>
>DS
>
>
>Daniel Sokolow
>Corporate Archivist
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Tom Mueller

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