Progressive Party of 1912

A moose, a donkey, and an elephant representing
the Progressives, Democrats, and the Republicans.
The elephant can be seen saying, "Suffering snakes,
how Theodore has changed."

"I feel fit as a bull moose," Roosevelt declares when asked if he was for to be a president again.

The Progressive Party, also famously known as Bull Moose Party, was a result of a rift between the Republican Party and Theodore Roosevelt in 1912.

Feeling dissatisfied with Taft's administration, Roosevelt believed he could once again be back up and running for a third term even after proclaiming his second his last. His liberal policies, which gained his place as the champion of the people, angered the "bosses" whom he sought to destroy as part of his anti-monopoly platform. This resulted to him being unable to get them to stick with him as a nominee and Taft taking his place on the ballot. Roosevelt took matters into his, and his many supporters', hands and created the New Nationalism, the Progressives' political ideology. This included the liberal social welfare changes he wanted to make: abolition of child labor, women's suffrage, minimum wage, unemployment insurance, and old age pension to name a few.

Roosevelt failed to gain the electoral votes he needed and Woodrow Wilson, a progressive candidate of the Democrats, takes the win. The party eventually disappeared but not without putting up new candidates, including women.



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