Reform mayors staffed city offices with patronage loyalists like Tammany did

Evidence

Moses could hardly have been unaware that while he was fighting to bring all civil service positions under competitive examination, no fewer than forty-seven Charities Department inspectors had been appointed by reformer John Kingsbury without examination, in clear violation of the law—or that every one of the forty-seven had previously worked for the private organization which Kingsbury had headed. Moses must have known, as all City Hall observers knew, that city offices ranging from clerkships to judgeships were being filled by reformers from lists furnished by pro-Fusion ward leaders. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 362

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general theme of anti-corruption crusades reproducing the corruption they oppose — echoes dynamics in the moral-panic and reform histories.