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Jess from VA
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« Reply #40 on: August 11, 2018, 08:25:09 AM » |
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Teddy called himself a Republican, but he was all about Progressive politics (of the day in around 1900).
As a leader of the Progressive movement, he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs. Making conservation a top priority, he established many new national parks, forests, and monuments intended to preserve the nation's natural resources Roosevelt viewed big business as a necessary part of the American economy, and sought only to prosecute the "bad trusts" that restrained trade and charged unfair prices.[123] He brought 44 antitrust suits, breaking up the Northern Securities Company, the largest railroad monopoly; and regulating Standard Oil, the largest oil and refinery company.[124][122] Presidents Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland, and William McKinley combined prosecuted only 18 anti-trust violations under the Sherman Antitrust Act Roosevelt proposed the creation of the United States Department of Commerce and Labor, which would include the Bureau of Corporations. And much more government regulation. Wikipedia
When Taft (who he helped get elected) was too conservative for him, he started the Bull Moose Party (rather than call himself a Democrat), spit the election, and caused the Democrat to win. IF he had run as a Democrat, he likely would have won. (IMHO)
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