The Republican

Party &

President William H. Taft and VP

James Sherman

Keepthe

Whistle

Blowing

Platform Key

Candidates campaign using a platform made up of planks

Planks: individual issues a candidate says they will push for when elected

Platform: all of the issues taken together

»Neutral»Progressive»Conservative

Republican Party PlatformHigh import tariffs.

Put limitations on female and child labor.Workman’s Compensation Laws.Against initiative, referendum, and recall.Against “bad” trusts.Stay on the gold standard.Conservation of natural resources because they are finite.Against women’s suffrage (previously for it)

The GOPAfterthe

CircusTR The Republican

Party must stand for the rights of humanity, or else it must stand for special privilege.

The Progressive

Party &Former

President Theodore Roosevelt

and VP candidate

Hiram Johnson

People should riseabove their sectarianinterests to promote the general good.

“Bull Moose Progressives”

• “Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best.”

• TR was shot by John Schrank, who had been having disturbing dreams about TR's predecessor, William McKinley and also thought that no president should serve more than two terms.Schrank spent the rest of his life in a mental institution

Theodore Roosevelt atOsawatomie, KS: New Nationalism

Big business requires big government.

TheAnti-Third-Term

Principle

Progressive Party PlatformWomen’s suffrage.

Graduated income tax.Inheritance tax for the rich.Lower tariffs.Limits on campaign spending.Currency reform.Minimum wage laws.Social insurance.Abolition of child labor.Workmen’s compensation.

New

Nationalism

The Socialist Party

& Eugene V. Debs

The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

“The Working Class Candidates”

Eugene V. Debs Emil Seigel for President for Vice-President

Growth of the Socialist VoteYear

Socialist Party

Socialist Labor Party Total

1888   2,068 2,068

1890   13,704 13,704

1892   21,512 21,512

1894   30,020 30,020

1896   36,275 36,274

1898   82,204 82,204

1900 96,931 33,405 130,3361902 223,494 53,763 277,2571904 408,230 33,546 441,7761906 331,043 20,265 351,3081908 424,488 14,021 438,5091910 607,674 34,115 641,7891912 901,873

The Industrial Worker: I. W. W.

Socialist Party PlatformGovernment ownership of railroads and utilities.Guaranteed income tax.No tariffs.8-hour work day.Better housing.Government inspection of factories.Women’s suffrage.

The Democratic Party &Governor Woodrow

Wilson (NJ)

Could he rescue the Democratic Party from “Bryanism”??

The ReformGovern

orof NJ:

It TakesTime

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Grime

Democratic Party PlatformGovernment control of the

monopolies trusts in general were bad eliminate them!!Tariff reductionDirect election of Senators.Strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act – to break up monopoliesDid NOT support women’s suffrage.Currency Reform

New

Freedom

As Big As a Balloon

Tariff Reform

ConservationIssue:

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The Unanswerable Argument for Suffrage

Never Again!

Taft Abandons Support for Women’s Suffrage

TR&

Women’s

Suffrage:

The Militan

t Recruit

Election Results

By 1912, 100,000 fewer people had voted for Wilson than had voted for Bryan in 1908.The 1912 election marked the apogee of the Socialist movement in America.

GOP Divided by Bull Moose

Equals Democratic Victory!

On Uncle Sam’s Farm

The Democratic party took control of the Senate for the first time in 20 years.