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Southern Democrats held powerful positions in Congress during the Wilson Administration, with one study noting “Though comprising only about half of the Democratic senators and slightly over two-fifths of the Democratic representatives, the southerners made up a large majority of the party’s senior members in the two houses.
Jun 29, 2024 · During the Woodrow Wilson administration, Tennessee Democrat Cordell Hull had spearheaded the drive for a federal income tax, which other Southerners amended to also include a graduated surtax on large incomes. 83 As we saw in Chapter 3, the Southern white public was also disproportionately supportive of progressive taxation and opposed to tax ...
- League of Nations
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- High Cost of Living
- The Tariff
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The Democratic Party favors the League of Nations as the surest, if not the only, practicable means of maintaining the permanent peace of the world and terminating the insufferable burden of great military and naval establishments. It was for this that America broke away from traditional isolation and spent her blood and treasure to crush a colossa...
We favor such alteration of the rules of procedure of the Senate of the United States as will permit the prompt transaction of the nation's legislative business.
During the war President Wilson exhibited the very broadest conception of liberal Americanism. In his conduct of the war, as in the general administration of his high office, there was no semblance of partisan bias. He invited to Washington as his councilors and coadjutors hundreds of the most prominent and pronounced Republicans in the country. To...
A review of the record of the Democratic Party during the administration of Woodrow Wilson presents a chapter of substantial achievements unsurpassed in the history of the republic. For fifty years before the advent of this administration periodical convulsions had impeded the industrial progress of the American people and caused unestimatable loss...
We condemn the failure of the present Congress to respond to the oft-repeated demand of the President and the Secretaries of the Treasury to revise the existing tax laws. The continuance in force in peace times of taxes devised under pressure of imperative necessity to produce a revenue for war purposes is indefensible and can only result in lastin...
Claiming to have effected great economies in Government expenditures, the Republican Party cannot show the reduction of one dollar in taxation as a corollary of this false pretense. In contrast, the last Democratic Congress enacted legislation reducing taxes from eight billions, designed to be raised, to six billions for the first year after the Ar...
The high cost of living and the depreciation of bond values in this country are primarily due to the war itself, to the necessary governmental expenditures for the destructive purposes of war, to private extravagance, to the world shortage of capital, to the inflation of foreign currencies and credits, and, in large degree, to conscienceless profit...
We reaffirm the traditional policy of the Democratic Party in favor of a tariff for revenue only and confirm the policy of basing tariff revisions upon the intelligent research of a non-partisan commission, rather than upon the demands of selfish interests, temporarily held in abeyance.
In the interest of economy and good administration, we favor the creation of an effective budget system, that will function in accord with the principles of the Constitution. The reform should reach both the executive and legislative aspects of the question. The supervision and preparation of the budget should be vested in the Secretary of the Trea...
To the great agricultural interests of the country, the Democratic Party does not find it necessary to make promises. It already is rich in its record of things actually accomplished. For nearly half a century of Republican rule not a sentence was written into the Federal Statutes affording one dollar of bank credits to the farming interests of Ame...
fluence of Southern Democrats in Washing-ton. Wilson's election in 1912 guaranteed that voices from the South would be heard in executive offices as well as in the halls of Congress. The President, a native Georgian, was a traditional Southerner in both up-bringing and temperament; while Wilson did not make blatant Negrophobia the hallmark
Yet Wilson was the first Democrat to inhabit the White House since Grover Cleveland left in 1897, and he was the first southern-born president since the Civil War. Wilson entered the White House carrying decades of patronage debts for the Democratic Party and the white South.
of anti-machine Democrats in nearly every state had joined the Wilson movement in 1911 and 1912 and launched a powerful campaign to destroy the old cliques allied with the railroads and corrupt courthouse rings. They were minorities in most of the southern states, but they were well organized and growing in
Oct 27, 2020 · Wilson imposed segregation in his Cabinet departments, and appointed Southern Democrats, who were likely in favor of segregationist policies, to lead them. The researchers point out that unlike the purported “separate but equal” policies of the Jim Crow era, Wilson’s order was overtly discriminatory.
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