Smith’s floor performance converted reformers into loyal backers of his agenda

Evidence

Up in the high galleries that overlooked the floor, the reformers stood and cheered. The compensation law might be lost but they knew the Republicans would never dare to touch the others now. Great advances had been secured. And, more important, at last they had their champion. Smith, the Tammany man, had made their dreams come true. They hastened to hang others on his lance. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 559

Categorization

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Broader Connections

• Smith saw progressive legislation as simultaneously moral and strategically optimal politics #expands (0.80) — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 560