Frank Doster

[6] His views progressed and he evolved to other affiliations such as the Greenback Union Labor, People's, and the Bryan wing of the Democratic parties.

[4] However, when running for the supreme court he claimed the quote was a misrepresentation of what he had said, and that it was applicable to only such situations as the rights to public utilities such as the railroad.

[4] He was more radical in his thoughts and statements than in practice and his term as chief justice was characterised by a strict adherence to the common-law tradition.

He continued to be interested in reform and championed issues such as industrial regulation and woman's suffrage, while opposing imperialism, prohibition and judicial nullification of social and economic legislation.

[3] He continued to follow Populism and in the 1920s championed internationalism, and was defensive of the Russian move to communism while denouncing child labor, prohibition, intolerance, fundamentalism, and the union of church and state.