ABSTRACT
Franklin D. Roosevelt seemed in Albany a somewhat quixotic crusader, but he played the regular with the boys back home. He was sensitive to their demands. He caused no trouble. Roosevelt, with a characteristic flourish, called it the Waterloo of the bosses—Murphy had been punished for his treatment of the Insurgents. In Roosevelt's own district, the defeats marked a permanent turning point for his prematurely optimistic party, although neither he nor his friends recognized this at the time. Meanwhile Roosevelt, like other New York progressives, had been attracted by Woodrow Wilson. While Howe and other agents were scouting Wilson's upstate strength, Roosevelt was fighting off an inanely premature boom for himself for Governor and making arrangements for direct intervention at the National Convention. He planned a rally at Cooper Union on June 24. The role played by Roosevelt and his friends was peripheral and superficial. Roosevelt attracted people and impressed them.
