John Milton Cooper Jr. > Quotes

“The race that followed constituted one of the great campaigns in American history. A three-way contest with a major party split, it recalled the 1860 election, when the fate of the nation had hung on the outcome. No such momentous stakes rode on the 1912 election, despite [Theodore] Roosevelt's insistent comparison of his new Progressive party with Lincoln's Republicans. Yet the campaign crackled with excitement. The most colorful politician since the Civil War [TR] squared off against the most articulate politician since the early days of the Republic.
Everyone recognized that the race was between Roosevelt and [Woodrow Wilson]. [President] Taft remained a candidate solely to spoil Roosevelt's chances.”
― John Milton Cooper, Jr.