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CHAPTER 20: ASSAULT ON PARTIES

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Objectives:

o We will examine how the progressive movement influenced and help reform elections.

o We will examine the rise and role of interest groups in pulling political influence away from the traditional political parties.

o We will examine two philosophies for equality for African Americans during the progressive era.

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“To know wisdom and instruction;

to perceive the words of

understanding; To receive the

instruction of wisdom, justice,

and judgment, and equity;”

Proverbs 1:2-3.

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o Sooner or later, most progressive goals required the involvement of government.

o Progressives believed that only government reformers could effectively counter the most powerful private interests that threatened the nation.

o Progressives believed that American Government could be properly adapted to perform Progressive aims because of corruption, that the government could resolve.

ASSAULT ON THE PARTIES:

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o For example, in the 1880s and 1890s, most states adopted the secret ballot.

o Prior to that, the political parties themselves had printed ballots (or tickets) with the names of the party’s candidates, and no others.

o They distributed the tickets to their supporters who then simply went to the polls to deposit them in the ballot box.

ASSAULT ON THE PARTIES:

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o Many progressives such as Lincoln

Steffens believed the impact of

party rule was most damaging in

the cities.

o Municipal government therefore

became one of the first targets of

those working for political reform.

Municipal Reforms:

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o As the new middle class of

educated reform minded

citizens sought to stamp out

corruption and reform society,

these activists were opposed by

powerful city bosses and their

entrenched political

organizations.

Municipal Reforms:

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o And there were the great

constituency of urban working

people, many of them recent

immigrants to whom the machines

were a source of needed jobs and

services.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Progressives were attacking a large

group of special interests:

o saloon owners,

o brothel keepers,

o and those businessmen who had

established lucrative relationship

with urban political machines.

Municipal Reforms:

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o But progressives began to gain strength politically.

o And began to take over several city governments where they would institute a city-manager plan.

o By which elected officials hired an outside expert-often a professionally trained business manager or engineer to take charge of the city government.

o The city manager would presumably remain untainted by the corrupting influence of politics.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Progressives began to turn to state

governments as an agent for reform.

o They felt state legislatures were

generally incompetent and corrupt.

o Reformers began looking for ways to

circumvent the boss-controlled

legislatures by increasing the power of

the electorate.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Two of the most important changes

were innovations first proposed by

Populists in the 1890s:

o The initiative and the referendum.

Municipal Reforms:

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o The initiative allowed

reformers to circumvent state

legislatures by submitting new

legislation directly to the

voters in general elections.

Municipal Reforms:

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o The referendum provided a

method by which actions of

the legislature could be

returned to the electorate for

approval.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Similarly, the direct primary and the recall were efforts to limit the power of party and improve the quality of elected officials.

o The primary election was an attempt to take the selection of candidates away from the boss and give it to the people.

Municipal Reforms:

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o In the South, primaries were an

effort to limit black voting.

o White Southerners thought that

since primary voting would be

easier to control then general

elections.

Municipal Reforms:

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o The recall gave voters the right to

remove a public official from

office at a special election which

could be called after a sufficient

number of citizens had signed a

petition.

Municipal Reforms:

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o In Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped turn the State into what reformers across the nation describes as a laboratory of progressivism.

o Under his leadership the Wisconsin progressives won approval of direct primaries initiatives and referendums.

o They regulated railroads and utilities.

o And passed many progressives legislation.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Consequently voter turn out declined.

o Secret ballot was one reason.

o Party bosses had less ability to get voters to the polls.

o Illiterate voters had trouble reading the new ballots.

o Party bosses lost much of their authority and were unable to mobilize voters as successfully as they had in the past.

Municipal Reforms:

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o But perhaps the most important

reason for the decline of party

rule and voter turnout was the

other power centers that were

beginning to replace them.

o They have become known as

“interest groups.”

Municipal Reforms:

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o Beginning late in the Nineteenth

century and accelerated rapidly

in the twentieth, new

organizations emerged outside

the party system.

o Professional organizations, trade

associations, representing

businesses and industries.

Municipal Reforms:

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o Labor organizations, farm lobbies

and many others.

o Social workers, the settlement

house movement, women’s clubs

and others learned to operate as

interest groups to advance their

demands.

Municipal Reforms:

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o New York Tammany Hall was an

example of social reform seen

through a city political machine.

o Led by Charles Francis Murphy, it

was the most notorious city

machine but in the early years of

the century, it fused the techniques

of boss rule with some of the

concerns of social reformers.

Labor, Machine, and Reform:

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o Tammany began to use its

political power on behalf of

legislation to improve working

conditions, protect child laborers,

and eliminate the worst abuses

of the industrial economy.

Labor, Machine, and Reform:

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o In 1911, a terrible fire swept through the factory of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York where 146 workers mostly women died.

o Many were trapped inside the burning building because management had locked the emergency exits.

Labor, Machine, and Reform:

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o It responded to intense public pressure from women’s groups and New York City labor unions and to pressure from Tammany Hall.

o By 1914, the commission had issued a series of reports calling for major reforms in the conditions of modern labor.

Labor, Machine, and Reform:

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o The report itself was a classic progressive document based on the testimony of experts filled with statistics and data.

o This led to a series of pioneer labor laws that imposed strict regulations on factory owners and established effective mechanisms for enforcement.

Labor, Machine, and Reform:

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o The American West produced some of the most notable progressive leaders of the time:

o Hiram Johnson of California, George Norris of Nebraska, William Borah of Idaho and others.

o Almost all these figures spent time in the U.S. Senate.

Western Progressives:

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o Progressives in the West targeted reform in the Federal Government because state and local governments had little power.

o The Federal Government exercised a kind of authority in the West that it had never possessed in the East.

Western Progressives:

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o Issues such as the rights of

waters, water projects and dams

that are federally funded, where

the Federal Government was the

center of resolving these issues.

Western Progressives:

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o African Americans faced greater

obstacles during this era with Jim

Crow Segregation.

o Booker T. Washington advocated for

immediate self-improvement rather

than long-term social change.

African Americans and Reform:

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o W.E.B. Du Bois opposed this view.

o Harvard educated, he launched an open attack on the philosophy of Washington accusing him of encouraging white efforts to impose segregation and of limiting the aspirations of his race.

African Americans and Reform:

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o Du Bois stated that rather than being content with education at the trade and agricultural schools, that African Americans should accept nothing less than a full university education.

o They should aspire to be professionals.

o They should above all, fight for their civil rights, not simply wait for them to be granted as a reward for patient striving.

African Americans and Reform:

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o Du Bois helped found the NAACP

with White progressives with the

aftermath of the Springfield Riots

being the oldest Civil Rights

Organization in the United States

that sought to fight racial

inequality through the courts.

African Americans and Reform: