Taft's 1912 Disaster

Taft’s 1912 Disaster

            After Roosevelt won the election in 1904 he told the whole nation that he would not rerun for president in the next election. Therefore this left an opening for William Howard Taft. He easily took the election for another democrat win.

            After he was elected Taft did not use Roosevelt’s bully pulpit. Taft said he was campaigning for lowering tariffs. But this soon ended when he signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. This act angered people of progressivism who believed that Taft turned his back on them. They therefore did not support him on the next election.

            After his mistakes in presidency, Taft was then being worried about his next election in 1912. He then directed his attention on Roosevelt and tried to bring him down. Roosevelt therefore responded and began a political fight between the two. But there was one man hiding in the shadow. Woodrow Wilson came up from behind them and one the election of 1912. By using his famous saying, “Don’t interfere when your enemy is destroying himself”  he won it easily. His platform was refusing woman suffrage, lowering tariffs, and supported small businesses. So Wilson won the election of 1912