Roosevelt supported government supervision of big business. Wilson opposed all business monopolies, or trusts. Debs went even further. He wanted the government to distribute national wealth more equally among the people.
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The Socialist candidate Eugene V. Debs made four tries at the Office: In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt beat him, in 1908 William Taft won, in 1912 Woodrow Wilson obtained the Office and in 1920 Warren Harding became the President. Debs never won an Electoral Vote.
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Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) became President after the assassination of President McKinley in 1901. He successfully ran for re-election in 1904. In 1912, unable to gain the Republican Party nomination, Roosevelt was the candidate of the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party. He outdrew the incumbent William Howard Taft, but lost in the three-way election to Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson.
None, but Eugene V Debs ran in 1920 as the Socialist candidate for President, while serving a prison term for opposing the Draft in WW1.
The Socialists were led by Eugene V Debs. They opening opposed the war. Debs ran for president under the banner of the Socialists party.