A Contract With the People. Platform of the Progressive Party Adopted at its First National Convention. Chicago, August 7, 1912.

Unusual Progressive Party platform with Teddy Roosevelt & Hiram Johnson ticket

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The 1912 inaugural platform of the Progressive or “Bull Moose” Party which nominated Theodore Roosevelt for a third term as president of the United States. “It called for ‘permanent active supervision’ of corporations in interstate commerce, for income and inheritance taxes, and for medical, unemployment, and old age insurance. It also endorsed woman suffrage. Only on civil rights for blacks was it silent. Roosevelt won 27 percent of the popular vote in the general election—the highest ever recorded by a third-party candidate.” (ANB)

At the Progressive Party’s Chicago convention, California Governor Hiram Johnson was nominated as Roosevelt’s running mate. Excerpts from their acceptance speeches are printed within as well as platform planks calling for easier methods of amending the U.S. Constitution, prohibition of child labor, conservation of natural resources, the development of Alaska and the Panama Canal, and the assimilation of immigrants “away from the congested cities.” Scarce to commerce.

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