II. Racking Muck with the Muckrakers
Beginning about 1902 a group of ten and fifteen percent popular magazines begun to through up dirt about trust muckraker - An early twentieth-century …show more content…
Woodrow Wilson, conservative who had been the president of Princeton University, governor of New Jersey * In 1912, , the Democrats nominated Wilson on the 46th ballot * The Democratic ticket would run under a platform called “New Freedom,” which would include many progressive reforms. At the Progressive convention, Jane Addams put Theodore Roosevelt’s name on the nomination * TR became the nomination for the progressive when entering into the campaign, TR mentioned that he felt “ strong as a bull moose,” making moose the unofficial Progressive symbol. Republican William Taft and TR began to bicker, as the former friends, they became enemies and now ripped every aspect of each other’s platforms and personalities. Meanwhile TR’s had a new idea called “New Nationalism” and Wilson’s new idea was “New Freedom” became the key issues of the election. * Roosevelt’s New Nationalism was inspired by Herbert Croly’s the government should control the “bad trusts” leaving the “good trusts” alone and free to