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Legislation saying how wonderful Wagner was. I remember Paul Kennedy saying, “Wagner is a great discovery.”

I met Wagner in the same way I met the rest of these people, but he was a new member of the Senate who had just come in. Paul Kennedy, who was shopping for support for the workmen's compensation act and was the head of the American Association for Labor Legislation, went to call on Wagner at his home. He came back with the most enthusiastic praises. “Oh,” he said, “we've got something new. We've got something wonderful. A vigorous young man with a legal education. He's been a poor boy and yet he's managed to get a law education - he's sprung from the slums and all that is good.”

Of course I wouldn't publicly say this, but the fact that Wagner was a Methodist and a former president of the Epworth League was a great relief to Paul Kennedy, who had felt that many of our Tammany associates were just waiting for the bishop to say yes and no on his legislation. Here was Wagner who wasn't. He had such a sweet little wife, and we all became acquainted with the sweet little wife and Wagner very shortly. His sweet little wife was a very retiring person who became an invalid while he was still in Albany. She had long, long yeas of great invalidism.