As editor, Bradwell supported woman suffrage, railroad regulation, improved court systems, zoning laws, and other reforms.
In the vanguard were various agrarian crusaders, such as the Grangers and the Populists and Democrats under Bryan, with their demands for stringent railroad regulation and national control of banks and the money supply.
They agitated for policy reforms, many of which were enacted into statutes when they became part of the progressive movement's agenda: antitrust laws, the Food and Drug Administration, railroad regulation, wage and hour laws, workmen's compensation and child labor laws, to name a few.
That was reflected in their early programmes, which included a demand for the incorporation and recognition of labour unions alongside demands for railroad regulation, an end to land speculation, and easy money (through the replacement or supplementing of the gold standard) to ease the burden of debt that the farmers suffered from.
At the Republican, Walker wrote on Reconstruction era politics, railroad regulation, and representation.
Their relationship began to break down over the question of railroad regulation.
He advocated for progressive reforms such as more extensive study of mine accident prevention, railroad regulation, a pure food and drug act, and an eight-hour work day.
Goebel's abrasive personality made him many political enemies, but his championing of populist causes, like railroad regulation, also won him many friends.
His platform of railroad regulation and championing labor causes, combined with the influence of Stevenson, his former partner, should have given Goebel an easy victory, but this was not to be.
Taking control of the president's railroad-regulation measure, they added new provisions that greatly increased the Interstate Commerce Commission's authority.
