Reply #5: Ah, I don't know. I've been thinking/reading a lot about this era recently (been doing a research

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paper on John Dewey and Eugene Debs, though it's always been a general area of interest of mine) and Theodore Roosevelt really wasn't all he was cracked up to be. Circe 1896 he was still talking about taking labor leaders up against a wall and shooting them, not mention as Howard Zinn liked to point out the man flat out loved war. I can't help but think the party was poisoned by his involvement. Debs and the Socialist really were the way to go in 1912.

However, Robert La Follete was the real deal.