ROOSEVELT

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ROOSEVELT
1912
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BULLY
Very Good! Well Done! Excellent!
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A MAN OF ACTION
_at_ 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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ANEWNATIONALISM
TR and The Progressive Party PRESENT
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• direct primaries for all state and national
  offices
• direct election of senators
• ballot initiative, referendum, and recall
• an easier method for amending the Constitution
• womens 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

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• a six-day workweek and an 8-hour day
• workmens 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

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TAFT 1912
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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
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GIVE TAFT A SECOND CHANCE!

• Im 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.

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WILSON 1912
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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 GOVT stay out of
  peoples lives).

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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 bankers 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)

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What I Will Do

• FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
• Endorse state action for womens 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.

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DEBS 1912
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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!