ABSTRACT
Progressivism differed from goo gooism, populism, and routine reform by being an amalgam of all of these, plus the more probing aspects of regular party politics. Progressivism in its apparently brief candle of time produced a scenario of drama and passion brilliant in its possibilities for American life. In 1910 he became one of the senators who convened to refine a declaration of principles, which became the basis for the Progressive party. Typical of administrations that ranged within the spectrum of progressivism was that of Judson Harmon, elected governor of Ohio in 1908. The Progressive era is often seen as reaching its high point in 1912 and then sliding toward oblivion. A “consensus” developed among historians in the 1950s and after that progressivism had attracted a particular class of Americans, and largely at the expense of others. Edward P. Costigan program of home rule, municipal ownership, and independent judiciary marshaled Progressive forces, which he implemented with a state voters’ league.
