Politics
Hill identified as a Republican and was, at times, active in the party, but he disliked Teddy Roosevelt's trust-busting, thought William Howard Taft was a disastrous choice for president to the point that he openly backed William Jennings Bryan in 1908 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 and 1916, though he eventually came to oppose Wilson some time after the end of World War I. He was generally ill-disposed toward labor unions.
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