{"id":140,"date":"2010-10-12T09:36:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/?p=140"},"modified":"2010-10-12T09:36:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-12T09:36:14","slug":"the-election-of-1912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-211pinsker\/2010\/10\/12\/the-election-of-1912\/","title":{"rendered":"The Election of 1912: Progressivism"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The election of 1912 was the classic battle of Republicans versus Democrats but with an added twist known as Progressives, led by disgruntled former President Theodore Roosevelt.\u00a0 Incumbent President William Taft and Gov. Woodrow Wilson represented the Republicans and Democrats, respectively.\u00a0 Progressive reform revolved around this period in time from labor<\/a>to environmental issues and proved to be the major question presented to these three candidates.<\/p>\n

Theodore Roosevelt broke away from the Republican party after failing to receive the nomination for the Republican ticket to William Taft, his previously chosen successor.\u00a0 This party became known as the Progressive Party or “Bull Moose Party”.\u00a0 They were composed up of more radical Republicans who supported government restrictions on big businesses, backed labor unions as another matter to regulate the growing American industries.\u00a0 Roosevelt’s reformist attitude has connections to the working man within New York City where he was born and\u00a0raised as well as to\u00a0the frontiers men of “Missouri and North Dakota”<\/a><\/em> who hunt.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party was headed by William Taft, who originally was endorsed by Roosevelt after his previous terms in the presidency.\u00a0 Taft gradually began to shift to a more conservative approach than Roosevelt had expected leading to the forming of a rift eventually splitting the party into two seperate factions; Conservatives and Radicals.\u00a0 Taft held many contradicting views in respect to Roosevelt, he favored individual business leaders holding the power in large businesses.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As the other two parties battled one another the Democrats stood in the background with their candidate Woodrow Wilson.\u00a0 With his greatest opposition factioned and fighting amonst themselves it left for a much simpler election process for Wilson that one had seen in years past.\u00a0 At the news of his victory<\/a> Wilson had successfully reunified the Democratic party after decades of hardship and anguish following the Civil War.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the major concept of reform in the 1912 election was crafted and pushed into the spotlight by Roosevelt and his fellow Progressives\u00a0 it ended up being Woodrow Wilson and the Democrats who took on this challenge.\u00a0 Democrats became strong supporters of pro labor reform while Republicans stood by large individually owned businesses.\u00a0 This transformation of political parties has continued to be upheld throughout the decades that followed.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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