Opposition To Roosevelt On The Progressive Ticket
When Roosevelt bolted from the Republican Party in the 1912 presidential election and ran on the Progressive Party ticket, Wilcox, a loyal party man, could not countenance such a move on TR's part and served notice that he could not support his presidential bid.
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