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The platform of the Progressive Party, formed by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, advocated numerous progressive policies and embraced the major planks of Roosevelt's New Nationalism. It called for direct primaries, initiative, referendum, and recall, as well as equal suffrage, labor and industrial reforms, social insurance, inheritance taxes, and farm relief.
16-page campaign booklet with the platform of the new Progressive Party The platform's main theme was reversing the domination of politics by business interests, which allegedly controlled the Republican and Democratic parties, alike.
The Progressive party, believing that a free people should have the power from time to time to amend their fundamental law so as to adapt it progressively to the changing needs of the people, pledges itself to provide a more easy and expeditious method of amending the Federal Constitution.
The extreme insistence on States' rights by the Democratic party in the Baltimore platform demonstrates anew its inability to understand the world into which it has survived or to administer the affairs of a union of States which have in all essential respects become one people.
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Progressive Party Platform of 1912. November 05, 1912. Edited and introduced by Eric C. Sands. Version One. Version two Version three. Study Questions. How do the Progressives differentiate themselves from the major parties in 1912?
Progressive Party, (1924), in the United States, a short-lived independent political party assembled for the 1924 presidential election by forces dissatisfied with the conservative attitudes and programs of the Democrats and Republicans.
