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The 1912 Election

The 1912 Election. The Candidates. The Republican Party & President William H. Taft. Keep the Whistle Blowing!. Taft was determined to defeat TR and preserve the conservative heart of the Republican Party. Come, Mr. President. You Can’t Have the Stage ALL of the Time!.

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The 1912 Election

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  1. The 1912 Election

  2. The Candidates

  3. The Republican Party &President William H. Taft

  4. KeeptheWhistleBlowing! Taft was determined to defeat TR and preserve the conservative heart of the Republican Party.

  5. Come, Mr. President. You Can’t Have the Stage ALL of the Time!

  6. Republican Party Platform • High import tariffs. • Put limitations on female and child labor. • Workman’s Compensation Laws. • Against initiative, referendum, and recall. • Against “bad” trusts. • Creation of a Federal Trade Commission. • Stay on the gold standard. • Conservation of natural resources because they are finite.

  7. The GOPAftertheCircus TR The Republican Party must stand for the rights of humanity, or else it must stand for special privilege.

  8. The Progressive Party &Former President Theodore Roosevelt People should riseabove their sectarianinterests to promote the general good.

  9. Theodore Roosevelt atOsawatomie, KS: New Nationalism Big business requires big government.

  10. TheAnti-Third-TermPrinciple

  11. The “Bull Moose”Party:The LatestArrivalat thePolitical Zoo

  12. Progressive Party Platform • Women’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. NewNationalism

  13. The Socialist Party & Eugene V. Debs The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity.

  14. “The Working Class Candidates” Eugene V. Debs Emil Seigel for President for Vice-President

  15. Growth of the Socialist Vote

  16. The Industrial Worker: I. W. W. The first American labor group to open its membership to all wage-earning workers, regardless of skill, nationality, race, sex, or gender.

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

  18. The Democratic Party &Governor Woodrow Wilson (NJ)

  19. The ReformGovernorof NJ:It TakesTimeto Removethe Grime

  20. WhichWaytoJump?

  21. Democratic Party Platform • Government control of the monopolies  trusts in general were bad  eliminate them!! • Tariff reduction. • One-term President. • Direct election of Senators. • Create a Department of Labor. • Strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act. • Did NOT support women’s suffrage. • Opposed to a central bank. NewFreedom

  22. The “Seas” [of Opportunity]Open Up for the Democrats

  23. The Key Issues

  24. UpAgainst theHurdles

  25. As Big As a Balloon Tariff Reform

  26. ConservationIssue:TheBallinger-PinchotControversy

  27. The Unanswerable Argument for Suffrage

  28. Never Again! Taft Abandons Support for Women’s Suffrage

  29. TR&Women’sSuffrage: The Militant Recruit

  30. Woman Suffrage Before 1920

  31. Songs of the Sunny South

  32. Lynching& theRaceIssue

  33. Trying to Catch the “Colored” Vote

  34. Mr. Lewis Gets His Share

  35. The Results

  36. An Actual 1912 Ballot

  37. 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.

  38. GOP Divided by Bull MooseEquals Democratic Victory!

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