Talk:H. Edmund Machold

Vs Al Smith
It is a rather dubious claim that Machold "successfully" opposed Al Smith's attempts to reorganize the state bureaucracy, since Smith in fact succeeded in this venture. Anyone have any thoughts? Remclaecsec (talk) 01:02, 6 August 2010 (UTC)

It says that "as Speaker" (1921-1924) he "opposed successfully", that means that Smith succeeded with his plans only after Machold lefty the Speaker's chair. In fact the re-organization was enacted in 1926. Certainly it might give the wrong emphasis to the thing, if you consider Smith the good guy and Machold the bad guy, meaning that the re-organization was necessary or successful per se. But there might be controversy about that, if you think that the abolition of two statewide elective offices (treasurer and State Engineer) and the henceforth appointment of a third (Secretary of State) was anti-democratic. Feel free to reword, if you like. Kraxler (talk) 17:52, 7 August 2010 (UTC)