We'll start tonight with a report that if Senator Ted Kennedy marches in the St.
Patrick's Day Parade, President Carter probably will be represented by Vice President Mondale.
State Treasurer Jerry Cosentino, Illinois Chairman of the Care of the Carter Campaign, has a date in the White House tomorrow at which time he will invite Mondale to participate in the parade, not by marching with the dignitaries, but by riding in the Cosentino float.
Meanwhile, Ed Brabic, the Chairman of the parade, maintains he has no official word that Kennedy will be marching despite Mayor Burns' invitation.
Next Tuesday, and that follows by one day, St.
Patrick's Day.
That means Chicago's parade is taking on some political overtones.
Monday, Mayor Burns said that President Carter would not march in the parade because he is an Irish.
Well this morning the Mayor told a news conference that she invited Mr.
Carter, but only after talking with Ted Kennedy.
It seems like it was only a year ago when we had St.
Patty's Day.
And here we go again.
And it's a lovely day it is, even though it is colder than a mean old freezing day.
And we start in the Saturday confessional.
88 units dead and buried and gone, thank God.
And if I were you I wouldn't be coming downtown.
You'd probably sprain your ankle on a beer can.
Francis O'Malley, Channel 7, Eyewitness News.
And sober as a judge I might add.
And Frank I don't understand how you could.
As the St.
Patrick's Day Queen of 1980, the 19 year old beauty will reign over the annual parade down State Street March 17th.
Naturally Mayor Burns will be on hand leading the way, but the Queen gets to ride on an authentic Irish jaunting cart in the celebration.
The Queen also receives more than $5 ,000 in prizes and awards, including an all expense paid trip to Ireland.
We live in cities and the President of the United States has worked to put in place what we call a comprehensive urban program.
It is the most pro -city administration in America.
Most mayors in America support us.
The solid.
Especially if you're a politician and one by one they arrive.
Bagpipe band was on hand to escort everybody to the parade after the mass.
The tradition being carried on now for a quarter of a century among Chicago's Irish.
And whether or not those St.
Patrick's Day prayers will be answered at the polls tomorrow for today, this day of wearing of the green, the celebrations are guaranteed.
All fighting fires or over to the curb line.
Should have been a great day for Mayor Burns.
She's Irish.
It's her second wedding anniversary and the man she hopes will be president joined her for the big parade.
It should have been a great day, but it wasn't.
It wasn't just gloomy weather.
Senator Kennedy soon separated himself from the mayor for the rest of the march.
His wife, Joan, holding onto him as he shook hands along the roof.
Many of those who jeered the mayor wore buttons supporting state Senator Richard Daly's bid for state's attorney.
But the mayor's husband seemed at a loss for words about the embarrassment.
Ask him.
This man did not get booed.
Richard Daly marched in many of St.
Patrick's Day parade with his father, but never one so politically satisfying to this anti -administration candidate.
And here is the image of the day.
Now granted, Senator Daly's Bridgeport always turns out in large numbers for this parade and that may explain some of it.
And there were no doubt some disgruntled firefighters along the parade route.
But the hard fact is that the mayor and to some extent, Senator Kennedy got the raspberries from a lot of people today.
And that not only may foretell what will happen at the polls tomorrow, but say ominous things about the mayor's political fortunes even in the years ahead.
It was kind of hard to tell, but maybe you can tell us, did he get as many cheers once he separated himself from the mayor and went over to the crowd and started shaking hands? In my opinion, and I was not there at all at all times, the enthusiasm for him got much greater when he separated from the mayor.
When they were together, there were a lot of booing.
Although there were remarks made along the way, even as he and his wife walked along, remarks concerning Chappaquiddick, concerning what was going to happen to him at the polls tomorrow, derogatory remarks.
Is there any way Mayor Burden can win in all of this? If her candidates win tomorrow, is that going to be bad for the machine and she'll be criticized if they lose? That's bad for her too.
There's one possibility there.
As you know, the state's attorneys race with...
The boos were for the Irish mayor, Jane Byrne.
The boos also were for the Irish candidate for president, Senator Edward Kennedy.
Each also got cheers, but at best the reception must be called mixed.
Senator Kennedy did not stay long enough to see number 61 pass, and if he had, he would have heard a mighty cheer.
Mayor Byrne saw, however, young Daly insists that the mayor...
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Patrick was.
He was an Englishman born in Wales, so I suppose he's also a Welshman, right? Yes.
By the way, this story was put together by our own Leprechaun Leonard, and Aaronson, one of our producers here at New City.
Did a wonderful job.
Everyone is Irish tomorrow? Well, most everyone.
Me too.
Aren't you? Sure.
Green -eyed girls.
That's our report of news for this Sunday night.
Do not forget to tune in tomorrow morning at 11 .30 and again at 4 .30.
And me? Thank you.
Good night.
Another supporting her son, Richard Daly, running for state's attorney and opposed by Byrne.
That's why Kennedy is in trouble in Illinois.
Adding to these troubles is yet another problem.
A lot of Democrats are planning to cross party lines tomorrow and vote for John Anderson.
The traditional parade is not really all that traditional.
It started in a big way only in the 1950s.
But Richard J.
Daly, the man most Chicagoans still associate with the word mayor, made it an annual celebration with a distinctly political flavor.
There may be no solid historical evidence that St.
Patrick would always have voted straight Democratic.
But in Chicago, it is almost unthinkable that he might have been a Republican or non -union.
He does fly, doesn't he? Richard J.
Daly, Chicago, St.
Patrick's High School, very, very famous in the world.
You know, I learned a lot.
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Inside this very tall downtown building, the downtown area around the daily civic center plaza has been roped off as best Chicago police can in downtown Chicago.
I'm Joe Cummings.
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And according to Mayor Burnett, it looks like it may be Teddy Kennedy leading the St.
Patrick's Day parade.
Time now to take a look at what's coming up on Eyewitness News at 6 and for...
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Yeah, we're just riding.
Now where are you going to head from here? Oh, we're going to go down here.
Back down.
Just go.
OK, go.
I'm going to have a very good day.
All right.
All right.
Wow.
This is really kind of what we want to do.
But all the different spots that you showed me.
Here's the Shamrock American Club.
Shamrock American Club.
Coming now.
We're too far away.
Too far away.
I'm off and back.
I don't know what to do there.
I started with the first year of training.
I used to run the track and racing.
Oh, I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know what to do.
I started the first year of my life.
I'm going to go in the middle.
I'm going to call that one.
Oh.
I'm going to go in the middle.
I'm going to go across the street.
All right.
Columbus State.
That's second Monday.
Then Bishop's Day.
That's right.
Yeah.
But when we run that, too.
It's costly, actually.
OK.
Let's go back.
We can pick up.
OK.
OK.
OK.
OK.
I'm on your spot.
Colleen, no matter what kind of a day it is, it's going to be like that for us because we've never been to anyone else.
It wasn't anything but a beautiful Sunday day on St.
Patrick's Day.
Because it's what you think about it that really comes.
At the present time, we have 69 floats, 42 bands, 48 marching groups, eight baton units, and 22 special units.
They can be totaled up to 189 units in the parade.
So you know, we have to have this much.
So most of the mayor will take care of it next year.
So we cut off the floats.
We cut off the marching units.
And so you couldn't be in.
They'd call the mayor's office.
The mayor would call us to say, put them in.
So one year, it was a little bit chillier than usual.
And he said, that's kind of lengthy.
I said, yeah, but you added 40 units yourself.
So we never commented on it.
We have most of our marshals, but there's about less than 10 delinquent float sponsors who have not let me know who they're going to hear this year.
So if you're within the sound of my voice tonight, the number to call on the city and suburbs is 386 -1974.
Have a wonderful parade day, and thank you.
We have 48 marching units this year.
And one of the things we want to be very, very careful about this year, the wonderful response we get.
We have a few other surprises that evening.
We have David Cainton, who is a star of the BBC.
He's coming for the award.
BBC Ireland, actually.
In fact, getting over like this, a BBC Belfast.
But he's a very popular guy over there.
And he's going to start the show off.
And we have two little other things going.
And of course, we'll name about 40 of the show.
We have a few presentations to make.
It's going to be a delightful evening.
Bill Smith is our very able and capable dinner chairman.
And if you haven't made any reservations, there are some available.
And you can call Bill Smith at the Conrad Hill Motel, and you'll find what a willing and affable fellow he is when you want to give him money.
Thank you.
I hope you all come.
Seriously, about the Irish Fortnight, an attempt to bring even more culture to the city of Chicago through the presentation of a series of lectures, dance programs, music.
I don't want to say it ain't chaps, but when you said it was a small gift, light, and said you didn't have to say that, we all knew that.
We should be raising more money.
It must have disturbed everybody.
I think if I look around, I can see 20 or 30 ,000 around, and I'm going to ask, how are you ready for this? Last year was the biggest year we ever had with the Africans.
We put in 26 ,000.
And the printing cost is six, and then at 20, the print cost is 24.
So we were a little short.
224 pages long, and the income is $38 ,000 right now.
Maybe some of this $38 ,000 after we go for that.
We have four sponsors.
The plumbing council is taking the adjacencies, the opening spot, the middle spot at the station break, and then the final spot.
Irish Airlines is taking half.
Stanley Dawson -Catalyke is taking the quarter, and the whole federal is taking the quarter.
We were able to come out of California, and you'd be surprised, even though I've been around for a long time, I do get nervous.
And especially for anybody who's nervous, and I would be surely nervous if I was close to the queen and the standards.
My dad is getting old.
I feel the other night.
We're so fortunate that these people, that in 1955, they and their mother led this parade on the west side.
And they were the men of the night, and they were absolutely there.
And this year, they're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
We're going to the end.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I'm going to the end.
I want people to like me.
I want only children in my team.
Young people.
With sick, hump, rube, gravy.
All kinds of young people.
But young people.
I love them because of the look in their eyes.
In my heaven, there will be only five -year -old eyes, for I know nothing more beautiful than a pure eye with a shot.
Now I hope that all the friendly sons and daughters of Aaron are indeed friendly and won't mind me quoting this French poet on St.
Patrick's Day.
After all, we have no particular authority that Patrick spent some time there himself.
When I thought of this day at a cave, my mind went naturally towards the light.
Fereced in my memory is a man with a bright green snap -brimmed hat, carrying a slayer, moving swiftly towards the parade.
And his eyes are twinkling bright, looking out at the wonder of light and thrilled by it.
They are the eyes of a young man.
Race, religion, cause, he has won the parade.
Mary Daly was part of a countless number of young men.
If the truth were known, he was probably the instigator, the initiator, or even the organizer of many.
He wanted people to be proud of their art, as he was proud of his kids.
He wanted people to celebrate together as a family.
What more economical way than in a parade? Rich and poor are brought together as one, so long as they have the pie in the middle.
He wanted people to love their city as he loved it, to take pride in it, and build it into an even better city for those children standing alongside the parade group, the ones who would grow up one day to march in the parade.
And yes, even the leaders.
How does a person keep that beautiful spark of light and enthusiasm? Mary Daly never had to receive it, because he was in love.
He was in love with his wonderful wife, his sons and daughters, his grand children.
He was in love with his parents and his forefathers, who had sacrificed so much to give him special opportunities.
He was in love with many of you, his friends.
He was in love with the city of his Chicago.
To put it most simply, he was in love with life.
His faith helped him to keep that joyful gaze on life.
Come, let us praise the Lord joyfully, we read in the psalm.
He did just that.
Come, let us kneel in front of our Lord and make him, for this is our God, and we are his keepers.
He was just that comfort with God.
It is a great trait and a special grace to be comfortable in the presence of God.
One verse of the breastplate of St.
Patrick reads like this.
I bind unto myself today the power of God to hold and heal.
His eye to watch, his mouth to stay, his ear to partner to my knee, the wisdom of my God to teach, his hand to guide, his shield to ward, the word of God to give me speech, his heavenly hope to feed.
The words are sacred, yehudah.
Amen.
Blessed be the one who gave the word of God to my friends.
Prayer number three.
Amen.
Amen.
Amen.
Thank you, Mr.
He told us what he wanted and we're going to continue the parade the same way.
For how long? As long as I'm around, I'm sure, as long as the 314 members of the parade committee, and they're all very active.
So you're saying St.
Patrick's Day in Chicago isn't going to change just our daily lives? St.
Patrick's Day won't change a bit.
It'll get better in the mayor's memory.
Okay, thank you, Dan.
Thank you.
Danny, Mary, like...
Thank you.
