ABSTRACT
The voice of the voters was, nonetheless, having a decisive influence on the attitudes and inclinations of the bosses. William G. McAdoo, twice a victim of the rule that permitted bosses and mayors, senators, governors, and chairmen to deal and wheel and maneuver and trade, was the warning of the danger and the promise of success. The mayors of Newark and New Haven and Waterbury, a congressman from New Jersey, and the Tammany Hall bosses were, among others, whipping up support for Smith. Woodrow Wilson had been nominated by the bosses. Nominations were the business of the party bosses. Jim Farley was out to meet the bosses, the party leaders, knowing that they and not their constituents would determine the nominee for the Democratic Party. In Alaska the delegates pledged to Roosevelt were instructed by the Democratic Territorial Convention to vote for Roosevelt, obviously directed by a small group of party leaders with whom Farley had diligently corresponded.
