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of this Commissioner. Under the Moreland Act so many reforms have taken place that the people are satisfied the Governor has done the right thing when he has appointed a Moreland Act Commissioner. They don't ask for anything to be done in advance of such a report.

I remember the episode of the Governor's appointing the Moreland Act Commissioner. I saw Al Smith around then for some reason or other. Smith said to me, “That's an awful thing to do. Why did he appoint a commissioner?”

I said, “He had to do something. After all, information about Walker is coming out. Walker is not too on the straight. There have been lots of things wrong.”

“Sure,” he said, “that's right. But why did he appoint a man like Seabury?”

I said, “Well, he's a well-known Democrat and an honorable Democrat.”

Al said to me, “Yes, but he's a Democrat without any heart and he's crazy about himself. He'll promote himself out of this. There are plenty of other Democrats that he should have appointed. Why didn't he appoint Jerry O'Connor? He's a sharp, shrewd lawyer, but he's practical. He won't go too far.”

I don't know just how Seabury began, who had been his informants, or who he'd used as investigators, but he had