1912 Election and the Power of Progressivism: A Brief History with Documents Book

	Foreword
	Preface
Pt. 1	Introduction : the story of 1912 : "a year supreme with possibilities"	1
1	"Progressive" : the popular label	3
2	The problem of the progressive era	21
3	The candidates debate	34
Pt. 2	The documents	63
4	The procorporatists : Theodore Roosevelt and Charles Van Hise	65
1	The new nationalism, August 31, 1910	65
2	Making a new platform, September 10, 1910	70
3	Letters to Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Benjamin Barr Lindsay, and Chase Salmon Osborn, August 22, 1911, December 5, 1911, and January 18, 1912	71
4	A charter of democracy, February 12, 1912	75
5	Letters, October 21, 1911, and October 27, 1911	82
6	For chairman of the convention, June 18, 1912	85
7	A confession of faith, August 6, 1912	86
8	The senior partner, September 8, 1912	94
9	Letters to Mary Eila Lyon Swift, Florence Kelley, and Jane Addams, March 7, 1911, January 9, 1912, and ca. August 8, 1912	95
10	Letter to Julian La Rose Harris, August 1, 1912	97
11	Letters to Senator Robert M. La Follette, October 30, 1911, and November 21, 1911	100
12	Letter to Charles R. Van Hise, June 4, 1912, and Charles R. Van Hise from Concentration and control, 1912	102
5	The anticorporatists : Robert M. La Follette, Louis D. Brandeis, and Woodrow Wilson	106
13	Speech at Jamestown, North Dakota, March 14, 1912	106
14	Speech at Bismarck, North Dakota, March 14, 1912	108
15	Letter to Senator Jonathan Bourne, January 2, 1911	111
16	Letter to Blanche Morse, March 28, 1912	112
17	The only way, September 17, 1912, and Pay day, September 7, 1912	114
18	Letter to Norman Hapgood, July 3, 1912	116
19	Letter to Alfred Brandeis, August 28, 1912	117
20	Correspondence, September 27, 1912, and September 30, 1912	118
21	Letter to Arthur Norman Holcombe, September 11, 1912	121
22	Trusts, efficiency, and the new party, September 14, 1912	122
23	Speech at Buffalo, New York, September 2, 1912	124
24	Speech at Sioux City, Iowa, September 17, 1912	127
25	Speech at Pueblo, Colorado, October 7, 1912	130
26	The biggest monopolies, October 9, 1912	134
27	Diary, August 14, 1912	135
28	Maud Malone Halts Wilson, October 20, 1912	136
29	The times, the place, and the girl, June 25, 1912	140
6	Neither a "flubdub" nor second rate : William Howard Taft	141
30	Speech at Nashua, New Hampshire, March 19, 1912	141
31	Speech at the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 30, 1912	145
32	Letters to Horace D. Taft and Charles F. Brooker, March 1, 1912, and March 5, 1912	148
33	Speech at Elkton, Maryland, May 4, 1912	151
34	He eats 'em up - and grows! : September 19, 1910	155
35	The presidency, September 29, 1912	156
36	Progressive : the popular label, October 6, 1912	157
7	Socialism as progressivism : Eugene V. Debs	158
37	Socialism gives only cure for trust evils, November 25, 1911	158
38	A study of competition, May 28, 1910	162
39	Acceptance speech, undated	163
40	Opening speech of the campaign, August 10, 1912	167
41	Platform, May 25, 1912	170
42	Mr. voter beware ..., November 2, 1912	173
43	The woman question, January 13, 1912, and What socialism offers, September 28, 1912	174
44	Letter to Eugene V. Debs, August 8, 1912	175
45	Eugene V. Debs says Moose party stole socialist planks, August 15, 1912
	The acid test, September 21, 1912	177
App	A 1912 election chronology (1877-1930)	180
	App: Questions for consideration	185
	App: Selected bibliography	187
	Index	195