New Parties Challenge the Economic System
Progressive Party Platform of 1912
Political platform
By: Progressive Party
Date: 1912
Source: Platform of the Progressive Party, August 7, 1912: Declaration of Principles of the Progressive Party. Available online at http://www.ssa.gov/history/trplatform.html; website home page: http://www.ssa.gov (accessed November 15, 2002).
About the Organization: The Progressive Party (nicknamed the Bull Moose Party) was organized in 1912 as a vehicle for reelecting Theodore Roosevelt. It took its name from the Progressive reform movement that Roosevelt had supported while serving as president between 1901 and 1909. Frustrated by the way his handpicked successor as president, William Howard Taft (served 1909–1913), handled a number of policy issues, Roosevelt caused a split in the...
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