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progressivism
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This was particularly obvious during the gubernatorial campaign of 1906 when Thomas Watson and other progressist leaders did not hesitate to embrace the ideology of white supremacy to win electoral votes and to make disfranchisement the foundation by which they could wrest power from the Democratic party.
Speaking at the International Congress of Women in London in 1899, Popelin combined the more common progressist view of women's right to practice law with a defense of the female attorney "as the natural confidant of the persons of her sex in litigious affairs, the indispensable auxiliary in feminine cases, where the motives of the accused can only be appreciated by her.
 
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