And Roosevelt, in dramatic fashion, removed his supporters from the convention after a speech, in which he declared, “… we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord!” The Republican Party leadership ultimately backed Taft. Taft and Roosevelt supporters even got into into fistfights. The 1912 Chicago Republican Convention, where the two faced off, was one of the most raucous in history. I like a man to tell the truth straight out, and I hate to see a man try to honeyfuggle the people by telling them something he doesn’t believe.” Taft also said in a 1912 campaign speech in Ohio that, “I hold that the man is a demagogue and a flatterer who comes out and tells the people that they know it all. This included Roosevelt’s opposition to treaties with Great Britain and France. Taft then used the term puzzlewit in a humorous, self-deprecating way to draw attention to what he felt were failures of Roosevelt. In the spring of 1912, Roosevelt referred to Taft as a “fathead,” “puzzlewit” and “dumber than a guinea pig.” The former president dusted off his bully pulpit and used his rhetorical knives to their maximum advantage against Taft. Roosevelt challenged Taft for the Republican nomination and ran against him in 1912. Other factors were at play, but he had personally approved the steel company’s trust and viewed Taft’s actions as a personal attack against himself and his administration’s legacy. Steel Corporation for violating antitrust laws that prevent unlawful mergers or other business practices. In one instance, the Taft administration filed a lawsuit against U.S. And Taft won the race easily.īut Roosevelt grew unhappy with the Taft administration, as he felt it was not upholding his beliefs that the president should do what is necessary for the good of the country, as long as it is not explicitly forbidden by law. Roosevelt endorsed William Howard Taft, his secretary of war, for president. Roosevelt was reelected in 1904 and decided to leave office in 1909, rather than seek another term.
Vice President Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency after the death of President William McKinley in 1901. Pence race that is about to get underway. PhotoQuest/Getty Images ‘Dumber than a guinea pig’ in 1912īut there is another point in history that is similar to the Trump vs. Jefferson emerged victorious from the election.Ī view of the Republican National Convention in June 1912, when William Howard Taft was nominated to serve on the ticket. This set up what is sometimes known as the Revolution of 1800 – the very first time one group in political power peacefully ceded that power to another group, based on the results of an election. The election ended in an Electoral College tie. The two used proxies to level vicious personal attacks against one another in the press. Jefferson’s allies called Adams “a hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman.”Īn Adams ally with the pseudonym of Burleigh, meanwhile, offered an omen if Jefferson won the presidency: “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes,” Burleigh wrote. Until 1804, the person who came in first in a presidential election became commander in chief, while the person who brought in the second-most votes became vice president.Īnd so when Adams ran for reelection, Jefferson ran against him in one of the most notorious races in American history. Adams had won the presidency in 1796, and Jefferson was runner-up, making him vice president. In the election of 1800, Vice President Thomas Jefferson challenged incumbent President John Adams. There is one other time in history when a vice president ran against the president he served with in office. Win McNamee/Getty Images Name-calling in 1800 Mike Pence, left, is the second vice president to run against his former boss for election.
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