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CHAPTER XXX

THE NEW DEMOCRACY

ROOSEVELT had been keenly alive to the new social and economic conditions created by modern industrialism, and The Taft ad- he had caught the new spirit of democracy that ministration had arisen in

the West and was sweeping over the country. He tried earnestly to make the Republican party progressive, but he did not succeed in divorcing it from its alliance with big business. Taft was at heart a conservative and the business interests were quick to seize the opportunity to sidetrack the Roosevelt policies. Before the close of his administration President Taft had a divided party on his hands and the way was open for the return of the Democratic party to power. The trouble in the Republican party began over the tariff. Dissatisfaction with the Dingley rates had developed in the Middle West during Roosevelt's first administration. He had seemed for a time to encourage the movement for tariff

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