ABSTRACT
Both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Louis Howe looked forward sadly to the 1913 Legislature. Yet there had been much work without pay—for Woodrow Wilson and for Roosevelts marketing bill—long periods when only Mother Hartley's cool hospitality had saved them. Wilson was straddling the warring factions, and the Republican press sourly predicted that Tammany would get the appointments while Roosevelt’s nomination would camouflage the deal. James O'Gorman had good reason to be worried, for Roosevelt set out at once to mobilize Federal patronage for the upstate anti-Tammany Democrats. But getting control of the Federal patronage was a monumental task. Roosevelt was not nearly as prominent as were a number of other New York Democrats. In naval matters Roosevelt would be especially aware of the situation that made Wilson often choose to give in on appointments rather than jeopardize important legislation.
