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The Election of 1912

The Election of 1912. The Candidates. The Republican Party & President William H. Taft and VP James Sherman. Keep the 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

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The Election of 1912

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  1. The Election of 1912

  2. The Candidates

  3. The Republican Party &President William H. Taft and VP James Sherman

  4. KeeptheWhistleBlowing

  5. 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

  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. • Stay on the gold standard. • Conservation of natural resources because they are finite. • Against women’s suffrage (previously for it)

  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 and VP candidate Hiram Johnson People should riseabove their sectarianinterests to promote the general good.

  9. “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

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

  11. TheAnti-Third-TermPrinciple

  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.

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

  19. The ReformGovernorof NJ:It TakesTimeto Removethe Grime

  20. Democratic Party Platform • Government control of the monopolies  trusts in general were bad  eliminate them!! • Tariff reduction • Direct election of Senators. • Strengthen the Sherman Anti-Trust Act – to break up monopolies • Did NOT support women’s suffrage. • Currency Reform NewFreedom

  21. The Key Issues

  22. As Big As a Balloon Tariff Reform

  23. ConservationIssue:TheBallinger-PinchotControversy

  24. The Unanswerable Argument for Suffrage

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

  26. TR&Women’sSuffrage: The Militant Recruit

  27. The Results

  28. 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.

  29. GOP Divided by Bull MooseEquals Democratic Victory!

  30. On Uncle Sam’s Farm The Democratic party took control of the Senate for the first time in 20 years.

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