Progressive Party

Address: NA

City: Washington

State: DC

Zip Code: 20001

Phone: +1 (702) 722-0671

Email Address: infomail@ progressivepartyusa.com

Date Founded: 1912

Website: https://progressivepartyusa.com/

Number of Members: NA  

History:

The Progressive Party was a third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé and conservative rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft. The new party was known for taking advanced positions on progressive and populist reforms and attracting leading national reformers. After the party's defeat in the 1912 presidential election, it went into rapid decline in elections until 1918, disappearing by 1920. The Progressive Party was popularly nicknamed the "Bull Moose Party" since Roosevelt often said that he felt "strong as a bull moose" both before and after an assassination attempt on the campaign trail 

Ideology:

The party's platform built on Roosevelt's Square Deal domestic program and called for several progressive reforms. The platform asserted that "to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day". 

Principles:

The old parties are concerned chiefly with material things; the progressive party is concerned chiefly with human rights. The masses, burdened by unjust administration, are demanding relief. The favored special interests, represented by the old parties, contented with their unjust privileges, are demanding that no change be made. The Progressive Party stands for remedial legislation and progress. The old parties stands still. 

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