Eugene V. Hubs Pros And Cons

The United States presidential election of 1912 is one of the remarkable elections in American history because it was a rare political occasion in which there were four candidates from four different political parties. Eugene V. Debs, a socialist, the then President William Howard Taft of republican (rerunning the election), Former president Theodore Roosevelt of progressive party and Woodrow Wilson of Democratic Party were the candidates. There were some similarities and differences between these candidates in terms of their pre-election speech and debate, which addresses the issues, and solutions to those issues in that era.
Firstly, Eugene V. Debs, candidate from the socialist party showed the major concerns about the problems that labor …show more content…
He believed that when all citizens achieve equality of opportunity, it would have massive positive results. “Every man will have a fair chance to make of himself all that in him lies; to reach the highest point to which his capacities, unassisted by special privilege of his own and unhampered by the special privilege of others, can carry him, and to get for himself and his family substantially what he has earned,” he said (The New Nationalism, 1910). Equality of opportunity also allows people to express the highest level of their services that they are capable of. Roosevelt was against the “great business, which often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profits”(The New Nationalism). Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, democrat and fourth candidate of presidential election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson did not agree with Roosevelt’s idea that government should control and regulate the country’s economy. Wilson rather believed that government power should be limited. Like Roosevelt though, he was also against the big business and monopoly. He believed that “monopoly is a feature of the new party platform from which the attention of the generous is diverted by the charm of social programs”