Influential figures urged Lehman to purge Moses after his campaign treason.

Evidence

No sooner had the landslide aspects of his defeat of Moses become apparent than the Daily News, whose publisher was temporarily feuding with Moses, called on Lehman to oust his disloyal subordinate, and so did key legislators and a number of the Governor’s most influential supporters—including Farley and Flynn and, according to some sources, President Roosevelt. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 1847