Republican candidates
* William H. Taft, President of the United States from Ohio
* Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
* Robert M. LaFollette, U.S. senator from Wisconsin By 1910 the split in the Republican party was evident. The conservative wing, lead by Taft, favored business and judicial supremacy. Roosevelt and his more progressive supporters on the other hand pushed against the courts, favored labor unions and opposed tariffs on manufactured products. During the Taft administration the split deepened.
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| - Republican candidates
* William H. Taft, President of the United States from Ohio
* Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
* Robert M. LaFollette, U.S. senator from Wisconsin By 1910 the split in the Republican party was evident. The conservative wing, lead by Taft, favored business and judicial supremacy. Roosevelt and his more progressive supporters on the other hand pushed against the courts, favored labor unions and opposed tariffs on manufactured products. During the Taft administration the split deepened.
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| - Republican candidates
* William H. Taft, President of the United States from Ohio
* Theodore Roosevelt, former President of the United States
* Robert M. LaFollette, U.S. senator from Wisconsin By 1910 the split in the Republican party was evident. The conservative wing, lead by Taft, favored business and judicial supremacy. Roosevelt and his more progressive supporters on the other hand pushed against the courts, favored labor unions and opposed tariffs on manufactured products. During the Taft administration the split deepened. Primary elections in 14 states where held for the Republicans. This was advocated by the Progressive wing of the party who wished to break the control of the party bosses. At the beginning of the elected primaries the Progressive wing had a shallow split between Robert LaFollette and Roosevelt. LaFollette won only two primaries and Roosevelt won nine. The other three went to Taft. The Republican convention was held in Chicago. Despite his poor performance LaFollette did not drop out, although he considered an alliance with Roosevelt. Unfortunately for Roosevelt, Taft had gotten many more of the non-elected delegates on his side. He managed to gain nearly all of the Republican delegates from the South. This aided him greatly and placed him above Roosevelt. Roosevelt tried to challenge the Southern states credentials by saying that in the real election these states would belong completely to the Democrats and where unlikely to aid the Republicans in the general election. He even made an alliance with Robert LaFollette to stop Taft but it failed. Taft had won. The former President would not take losing well. He and his supporters, along with LaFollette left the convention on June 22th. Taft easily got the nomination of the Republican party but at the cost of a schism in the party itself, and with the Democrats holding an estimated 45 percent of the popular vote.
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