ABSTRACT
The Insurgents themselves had little essential unity. Franklin D. Roosevelt personally was being urged to be satisfied with one big victory and co-operate with the machine on small matters. Roosevelt stood almost alone in the Senate where the machine's appointments might have been blocked. His attacks on Tammany's special legislation were hardly more successful. He was noisy and brave, but he was also confused and ineffective. Roosevelt had almost insuperable problems in tactics. An Insurgent must have a program, and herein lay his chief difficulty. The tremendous activity of campaign and rebellion had left him little time for thought. On other types of governmental reform, Roosevelt stood with the progressives when he was pushed to it. For Roosevelt personally, the heart of progressivism lay in the conservation issue, to which he was directly exposed by his position as Chairman of the Forest, Fish and Game Committee.
