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ROOSEVELT

ROOSEVELT. 1912. “BULLY”. Very Good! Well Done! Excellent!. A MAN OF ACTION. @ HOME SQUARE DEAL COAL MINERS’ STRIKE RAILROAD REGULATION (Elkins and Hepburn Acts) CLEAN FOOD TRUST-BUSTING THE ENVIRONMENT. ABROAD THE BIG STICK PANAMA CANAL NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GREAT WHITE FLEET.

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ROOSEVELT

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  1. ROOSEVELT 1912

  2. “BULLY” Very Good! Well Done! Excellent!

  3. A MAN OF ACTION @ HOME SQUARE DEAL COAL MINERS’ STRIKE RAILROAD REGULATION (Elkins and Hepburn Acts) CLEAN FOOD TRUST-BUSTING THE ENVIRONMENT ABROAD THE BIG STICK PANAMA CANAL NOBEL PEACE PRIZE GREAT WHITE FLEET

  4. ANEWNATIONALISM TR and The Progressive Party PRESENT

  5. direct primaries for all state and national offices • direct election of senators • ballot initiative, referendum, and recall • an easier method for amending the Constitution • women’s suffrage • limits on individual campaign contributions • registration of lobbyists • opening congressional committee hearings to the public • permitting Supreme Court decisions to be reversed by national referendum • a ban on labor injunctions • national occupational safety standards • prohibition of child labor • a minimum wage for women

  6. a six-day workweek and an 8-hour day • workmen’s compensation insurance • a social security system • improved educational standards • creation of a national health service • strengthening the ICC • currency reform • maintenance of the protective tariff only to the extent that it benefits labor • graduated inheritance and income taxes • greater assimilation of the immigrant population away from the central cities • federal securities commission to supervise public offerings of stocks and bonds

  7. TAFT 1912

  8. A MORE CONSERVATIVE APPROACH? CORPORATE REGULATION Mann-Elkins Act (1910) (Strengthens ICC power over RR, Telephone, Telegraph) TRUST BUSTING x90 (Standard Oil, American Tobacco, U.S. Steel) POLITICAL IN-FIGHTING Insurgents vs. Old Guard TARIFF (Payne-Aldrich Act) “Uncle Joe” Cannon Ballinger-Pinchot Affair A Divided Party and Congress Shadow of TR

  9. GIVE TAFT A SECOND CHANCE! • I’m NOT Theodore Roosevelt – the “mad messiah.” • No meddling in the legislative process (respect of checks and balances). • Legalistic approach to the presidency with a judicial temperament (no bending the rules). • Thorough and painstaking decision making (thoughtful use of presidential powers). • Experience in world affairs (Governor of the Philippines). • Arbitration of international disputes and “dollars for bullets.” • A non-aggressive approach to conservation. • Hopefully, a less politically divided Washington, D.C.

  10. WILSON1912

  11. Woodrow Wilson and The Democratic Party PRESENT THENEW FREEDOM • A temporary expansion of the power of the federal government. • Restore competition rather than regulate monopolies. • Eliminate ALL trusts, lower tariffs, and break up concentrated financial power on Wall Street. • Turn over most social programs to the states and cities. • Once completed, government reverts to Jeffersonian vision (SMALL GOV’T = stay out of people’s lives).

  12. What I Will Do… • FOR THE ECONOMY… • Lower the tariff and include an income tax. • Underwood-Simmons Tariff (1916) • Create a new banking system that will improve our currency with “banker’s banks.” * • Federal Reserve Act (1913) • Create a Federal Trade Commission to define unfair trade practices and issue “cease and desist” orders. • Federal Trade Commission (1914) • Strengthen anti-trust laws. • Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) • Support low-interest loans for farmers and internal improvements at federal expense. • Federal Farm Loan Act, Warehouse Act, and the Federal Highways Act (1916)

  13. What I Will Do… • FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE… • Endorse state action for women’s suffrage. • No national amendment. • Support state action on child labor. • No national legislation at first. • Support an 8-hour workday for railroad employees. • Only with the Election of 1916 looming. • Eliminate “possible friction” in the workplace by racially segregating federal employees. • Opposition to black voting rights (dumb whites, too). • Appoint Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court. • Champion of social justice and 1st Jewish member.

  14. DEBS 1912

  15. Eugene V. Debs WANTS SOCIALISM • An assault on capitalism (Overthrow?). • Legal seizure of political power by the working class. • Change the present social order. • Progressivism is simply an apology for the crimes of capitalism. • * By far, Debs was the most RADICAL candidate in the Election of 1912!

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