Moses’s false attack shattered the bipartisan unity of the reform association

Evidence

Although many of the younger New York City reformers, both Republican and Democratic, were still sympathetic to Moses, believing that he simply had made a mistake, the older city reformers and the upstaters, Republican almost to a man, were outraged that they were linked with a man who had slandered without cause a Governor of their party. Colonel Stimson, encountering Childs on the street one day, said that he had decided to resign from the association. “You’re all right, Childs,” the Colonel said, “but that Moses is a rough character.” — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 590

Categorization

• XREF: Corroborates Caro’s overarching thesis across the biography that Moses’s personal combativeness destroyed the alliances that could have checked him. — connects to: Moses turned a nominally nonpartisan reform bulletin into partisan election weaponry — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the…, 588