Smith embraced government reorganization most eagerly from firsthand experience of its inefficiency

Evidence

When he had in some instances to drop either the banner or the mace, it wasn’t the mace that fell. In the 1915 Constitutional Convention, he fought for the Municipal Research Bureau’s recommended reorganization of the state government. Of all the issues raised by the reformers, reorganization was the one he most eagerly embraced because his years in Albany had allowed him to see for himself the almost incredible inefficiency of the system. — Robert A. Caro, The Power Broker, 561

Categorization

• XREF: Direct contrast to Moses, who would drop the ‘mace’ and instead pursue power for its own sake — frames the whole book’s central comparison.