(A) Wilson
(B) McKinley
(C) ** Taft
(D) Dewey
EXPLANATIONS BELOW
Concept note-1: -Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft’s conservatism and belatedly tried to win the 1912 Republican nomination for president. He failed, walked out, and founded the new Progressive Party . He ran in the 1912 presidential election and the split allowed the Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson to win the election.
Concept note-2: -Before he left office in 1909, Roosevelt hand-picked William Howard Taft as his successor and worked to get him elected. Taft had served in the Roosevelt administration as governor of the Philippines and secretary of war.
Concept note-3: -In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt summoned his old friend to become secretary of war following the resignation of Elihu Root. Taft served in the War Department from February 1904 to June 1908.
Concept note-4: -Early in his term, President Taft had promised to stand for a lower tariff bill, but protectionism had been a major policy of the Republican Party since its founding. Taft also fought against Roosevelt’s antitrust policy. Roosevelt distinguished “good trusts” from “bad trusts, ” which he had been lambasted for.