In the election of 1912, the 4 candidates are William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Eugene Debs.

These is what their position in relating to trust:

William Howard Taft - Taft's plan to give more effective organization for existing reform approaches was suited for the prosecution of antitrust violations. More trust prosecutions (99 in all together) happened under Taft than under Roosevelt, who was known as the "Great Trust-Buster." The two most well-known antitrust cases under the Taft Administration, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and the American Tobacco Company, were really started during the Roosevelt years.

Theodore Roosevelt - Known as the "trust-buster," he was the first president to effectively invoke the Sherman Antitrust Act against monopolies and kept on limiting organizations all through his administration. Republican Taft, Roosevelt needed to manage the trusts, understanding their role and reason yet trying to use government as to a greater degree than Debs' vision of the controlling way of government. Organizations were not very enthusiastic about being controlled, and did not support quite a bit of regulation. …show more content…
Understanding that administration did not have the facilities to effectively seek policy of trust regulation. That Wilson could sick to manage the cost of lose the support of the business community. He advocated a policy which disposed some of the objectionable and shocking practices of businesses (price controls), and additionally maintained business freedom to continue with their practices in the free market. Wilson looked to build up an administrative agency, the Federal Trade Commission, which was to oversee business practices. The acknowledgment of these arrangement objectives, embodied in the Clayton Antitrust