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liberalizing the policies of the latter party. But the 

 development of the progressive movement in the 

 Republican Party through the national leadership 

 of Theodore Roosevelt caused some readjustment in 

 the old political organization. The Grangers, the 

 Greenbackers, and the Populists appeared to have 

 culminated in the Progressive Party movement of 

 19 12. 3 However, the reforms advocated by the Pro- 

 gressive Party did not emphasize the essential ag- 

 rarian policies that had been advocated by the 

 Populists. In fact, "The Progressives combined the 

 Hamilton system of nationalism with the Jeffer- 

 sonian principle of popular rule." 4 



In an effort to make government more responsive 

 to popular opinion, the Progressive Party advocated 

 direct primaries, the initiative and referendum, the 

 recall of executive and legislative officers and of 

 judicial decisions. A comprehensive program of 

 economic and social reform which included work- 

 men's compensation, a minimum wage for women 

 workers, and prohibition of child labor was also 

 advocated. The farmer's problems were not empha- 

 sized in the platform of the Progressive Party. But 

 the advocacy of a downward revision of the tariff, 

 conservation of the nation's natural resources, and 

 federal control of industrial corporations engaged in 

 interstate commerce undoubtedly brought to this 



* See P. B. DeWitt's The Progressive Movement, Chap. IV. 

 4 Haworth's The United States in Our Own Times, Chap. XIX, 

 p. 375. 



