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| | Reader's Companion to American History - -PEOPLE'S PARTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In Omaha on July 4, 1892, the Populists nominated James B. Weaver, a former Union general, for president and James Field, an ex-Confederate from Virginia, for vice president. |
 | | The Omaha Platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adapted from the earlier alliance program, called for government ownership of communication and transportation, the free coinage of silver, a progressive income tax, paper currency, the direct election of senators, the eight-hour day, and a new "Subtreasury" scheme for creating agricultural credit. |
 | | Weaver received a million votes, carrying five western states, but the Populists made little headway among nonfarm workers. |
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