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	1896: The People's Party
		The People's Party (or Populist Party, as it was widely known) was much younger than the Democratic and Republican Parties, which had been founded before the Civil War.
		One, the fusion Populists, sought to merge with the Democrats, using the threat of independent organization to force changes in the major party's platform.
		In practice, these Populists were not "in the middle," but more sweeping in their political goals than either of the major parties, while fusionists were more willing to compromise in hopes of winning powerful Democratic allies.
	projects.vassar.edu /1896/populists.html (1831 words)

	Socialist Organizer: The Labor Party
		Populists sought to appeal to what they saw as a kinship between all who toil, and denounced the existence of "colossal fortunes" that had been accumulated by "grinding the faces of the poor" or by "seizing upon monopoly privileges," which had exacted "tribute from the masses" (Rochester: 66, 67).
		Populists entered the 1892 election season with a platform, which they believed addressed the "living issues," a preamble that "excited" the party faithful, and a political memory of some import, the "emotional and recent memory of the Farmers' Alliance" (Goodwyn: 172).
		The Populist Party, in institutional terms, seemed to be on the verge of establishing a permanent presence in vast regions of the nation.
	www.theorganizer.org /LP/USHistory/peoplesparty.html (11232 words)

	Populist party - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		POPULIST PARTY [Populist party] in U.S. history, political party formed primarily to express the agrarian protest of the late 19th cent.
		No decision was made to form a political party, but when the Republican and Democratic parties both straddled the currency question at the 1892 presidential conventions, a convention was held at Omaha, and the Populist party was formed (1892).
		The goal of the Populists in 1892 was no less than that of replacing the Democrats as the nation's second party by forming an alliance of the farmers of the West and South with the industrial workers of the East.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-populist.html (668 words)

	People’s Party (United States) - MSN Encarta
		People’s Party (United States) or Populist Party, political party active in the United States between 1891 and 1908, supported mainly by farmers in the South and West.
		Founded during two conventions in 1891 and 1892, the party adopted a platform calling for free coinage of silver and the issuance of large amounts of paper currency—inflationary measures that it hoped would ease the financial burdens of the nation's debt-ridden farmers.
		The party reunited in 1904, but by then its influence was declining, and it ceased to exist after the 1908 election.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761569704 (308 words)

	Populist Party
		His People's Party had gained control of the state Senate two years earlier and believed it had won the House in 1892.
		The breaking point came in mid-February with the arrest of Ben Rich, clerk of the Populist House, with the charge of disturbing the peace of the legislature.
		The Republican House stayed in the hall, proceedings against the clerk were dropped and the Populists met in another room in the capitol.
	www.kshs.org /portraits/populist_party.htm (227 words)

	Populist Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Populist Party was formed by members of the Alliance, in conjunction with the Knights of Labor, in 1889–1890.
		This party became the electoral vehicle for the right-wing Presidential campaigns of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in 1988, and of former Green Beret officer Bo Gritz in 1992, but was defunct by 1996.
		In the 2006 United States Senate election in Maryland, the Populist Party of Maryland is supporting a fusion ticket of Green Party, Libertarian Party and Populist supporters for U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Zeese, a founder of the PPMD and 2004 press secretary for Ralph Nader.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Populist_Party_(United_States) (1655 words)

	Populist Party Platform
		The Populists urged the adoption of the initiative, referendum and recall as means to give the people a more direct voice in government.
		The Populists viewed the graduated income tax as a means to pry loose a portion of the tremendous wealth of the nation's most prosperous citizens.
		Party Platform (1892) The People's party, more commonly known as the Populist party, was organized in St. Louis in 1892 to represent the common folk—especially farmers—against the entrenched interests of railroads, bankers, processers...
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h875.html (561 words)

	TAP: Vol 13, Iss. 18. The Populist Fantasy. Sean Wilentz. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Unless these populist fantasies, pro and con, are exposed and banished, the Democrats could well destroy themselves -- a likelihood made all the more tragic because it would arise out of fundamental misunderstandings of the party's history.
		To their credit, the original populists argued in favor of various regulatory reforms that would give governments (especially state governments) greater powers to check the excesses of unbridled corporate power, including the regulation of railroad rates.
		By the time the modern party emerged 20 years later with the advent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a new breed of reforming Democrats, especially in the big northern cities and industrial states, had firmly grabbed the initiative away from the old-line agrarians.
	www.prospect.org /print/V13/18/wilentz-s.html (1516 words)

	Populist Party of Maryland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		These "Populist Parties" are inspired by 1890s American political party of that name and have no connection to the late-twentieth century Populist Party, which ran candidates such as David Duke and Bo Gritz and was widely regarded as a racist, white supremacist organization.
		The party conceived a "Unity Campaign" with the idea of bringing together Green Party, Libertarian Party and Populist voters in support of the fusion ticket of U.S. Senate candidate Kevin Zeese, a founder of the PPMD and 2004 press secretary for Ralph Nader.
		The party was largely unsuccessful in fielding a slate of candidates for the 2006 elections, however, with only three offices being contested: Governor, Lt. Governor, and the 45th district of the House of Delegates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Populist_Party_of_Maryland (455 words)

	Populist party — Infoplease.com
		Populist party: Formation of the Party - Formation of the Party During the Panic of 1873 agricultural prices in the United States began to...
		Populist party: Dissolution - Dissolution In 1896, while the Republican party adhered to the “sound money” platform,...
		Populist party: Goals - Goals The party adopted a platform calling for free coinage of silver, abolition of national banks,...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0839726.html (247 words)

	Populist Party
		In the 1896 presidential election the leaders of the Populist Party entered into talks with William J. Bryan, the proposed Democratic Party candidate.
		The defeat of William J. Bryan severely damaged the Populist Party.
		While Populists continued to hold power in a few Western states, the party ceased to be a factor in national politics.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USApopulistP.htm (1689 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories . Populist Party \| PBS
		The Populist movement was a revolt by farmers in the South and Midwest against the Democratic and Republican Parties for ignoring their interests and difficulties.
		The Party called upon the federal government to buffer economic depressions, regulate banks and corporations, and help farmers who were suffering hard times.
		The party elected several members to Congress, three governors, and hundreds of minor officials and legislators, nearly all in the Midwest.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_populist.html (490 words)

	Populist Party
		The Populist Party consisted primarily of farmers unhappy with the Democratic and Republican Parties.
		Populists hoped that womans suffrage and direct election of senators would enable them to elect some of their members to political office.
		In Ohio, the Populist Party remained a relatively insignificant force in politics.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=967 (524 words)

	Digital History
		Populist leaders called on the people to rise up, seize the reins of government, and tame the power of the wealthy and privileged.
		Populist orators venerated farmers and laborers as the true producers of wealth and reviled blood-sucking plutocrats.
		The Populists accused big business of corrupting democracy and said that businessmen had little concern for the average American "except as raw material served up for the twin gods of production and profit." The Populists blamed a protective tariff raised prices by keeping affordable foreign goods out of the country.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /database/article_display.cfm?HHID=157 (812 words)

	The People's (Populist) Party
		Populists believed they would win an inevitable victory, as gold voters divided between the two major parties, and as Populists catered to the large corps of dedicated silver voters.
		Populists were horrified to see their plans demolished by the Democratic party's actions.
		The Populist dilemma was this: Nominate Bryan and help insure silver coinage (while losing their own identity as a party), or nominate their own Populist candidate and watch silver loose as silver voters divided between the Populist and Democratic tickets.
	www.cresswellslist.com /ballots2/pp.htm (988 words)

	Lecture : Populist Revolt
		The People's Party, or Populist Party, was a third-party movement of the 1890s whereby farmers organized to pursue their own political interests.
		The Populist Revolt of the 1890s was rooted in the farm problems of the era, such as middle men, deflation, and debt.
		Although they failed to achieve power, the Populists left important legacies for the American political system: their rhetoric, their redefinition of the national issues, and their assertion of the tradition of agrarian radicalism.
	www.ndsu.edu /instruct/isern/104/lecture5.htm (346 words)

	Populist Reader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Populist Studies Page by by Gene Clanton, author of POPULISM: THE HUMANE PREFERENCE IN AMERICA, 1890-1900 (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991) and CONGRESSIONAL POPULISM AND THE CRISIS OF THE 1890S (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998).
		Resources for a course at Ohio State University on the Emergence of Modern America, 1877-1917, covering the Populist Movement, the Progressive Era and the Gilded Age, with texts by Jane Addams, Henry George, Washington Gladden, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and a discussion of Populism and the 1896 campaign.
		Resources for a course at the University of Colorado on the Populist Movement and Political Reform.
	www.populist.com /Populist.Reader.html (280 words)

	Populist party loses in Dutch election / Left-wing Labor has stunning comeback after May drubbing
		The leftist Labor party appeared to have won 42, a 19-seat jump after the drubbing the party suffered in May. In the 150-seat parliament, a majority of 76 seats is needed to form a government.
		In an effort to improve the party's aloof image, Labor chose Bos in a rare primary election open to all members, breaking from past practice of having the party's elite choose the leader.
		Labor's Bos said his party would "work to avoid a war against Iraq." He is the first major party leader in the Netherlands to clearly oppose military action against Iraq, a subject that went largely undiscussed during the campaign.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/01/23/MN51483.DTL (694 words)

	Kansas and Kansans p.1113-1123
		A comparative study of the platform of the third parties subsequent to the Civil War shows the Populist doctrine to be essentially the same as the Liberal, Independent Reform, Greenback, Anti-Monopoly, and other parties preceding it.
		On the other hand the leaders of the old parties and the Congresses and public officials of the two decades just passed, were denounced by the Populist writers as grafters and traitors.
		Many of the measures advanced in the Populist propaganda have one by one been enacted into law, while others are still live issues, which indicates that whatever the weakness of the movement may have been, it was not in the justice of the cause or the merit of the program.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/1113.html (3997 words)

	populist movement
		Populist Demands: In 1892 the Populist Party met in Omaha, Nebraska.
		When Populists realized that they were not strong enough to advance their programs alone, they fused with Democrats in 1896 in return for Democratic support of an expanded currency through the free minting of silver.
		This crusading spirit did much to attract women to the populist cause, and it is therefore not surprising that Mary Elizabeth Lease, one of populism's most powerful orators was a woman.
	www.columbia.edu /~rr91/1052_2002/lectures_2002/populist_movement.htm (4304 words)

	Farmers, The Populist Party, and Mississippi (1870-1900) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1896 presidential election, the Democratic Party nominated William Jennings Bryan and adopted a platform that included several planks from the 1892 Populist platform.
		They failed, in part, because parties selected nominees in county, district, and state conventions, which were easily controlled by a political organization and not by a vote of the people.
		In the late 19th century, the Populist Party arose out of agrarian economic and political protest, was short lived, and passed into history.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature42/populistparty.html (1977 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party: Books: Barton C. Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new party in the South had to contend with the strength of the Democratic Party which had led the South into the Civil War and had led the resurgence against Reconstruction.
		The leader of the Populist Party in the Tenth District and the entire state was Tom Watson, himself a well-to-do farmer and lawyer.
		As the Populist Party declined at the turn of the century the era of Jim Crow was advancing.
	www.amazon.com /Wool-Hat-Boys-Georgias-Populist-Party/dp/0807111481 (1028 words)

	Netvouz / populist-party
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	www.netvouz.com /?tags=populist-party (1385 words)

	Netvouz - populist / populist-party
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		While both parties give ample lip service to meeting the needs of the working class and the poor, most of the Duopoly's "elected" officials zealously devote themselves to advancing the interests of the...moreir corporate and aristocratic patrons.
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	www.netvouz.com /populist?tags=populist-party (1321 words)

	Shofar FTP Archives: orgs/american/washington/populist.001
		knm "Neo-Nazis Dominate Washington Populist Party A recent listing of the officers and county chairpersons of the Washington State Populist Party reveals that while many county chapters are headed by racist Christian Patriots, at the state level the party continues to be dominated by hard-core neo-Nazis and Klansmen.
		Mark Downey is a recent addition to the slate of state party officers, though he is a long-time Populist Party activist.
		The neo-Nazi domination of the state party is only partially mirrored in the leadership at the county level.
	www.nizkor.org /ftp.py?orgs/american/washington/populist.001 (921 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Documents: Populist Party Platform, July 4, 1892
		This platform, adopted by the People`s (Populist) Party at its first national convention in Omaha, was put together largely from statements already made by other conventions of the Farmers` Alliances since 1889.
		The platform, an excellent statement of Populist philosophy and aims, was greeted by the Omaha convention with a tremendous demonstration that was likened by a reporter to the enthusiastic Bastille demonstration in France.
		All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/D/1876-1900/reform/populist.htm (1402 words)

	Populist Party Platform
		In the 1890s the Populist Party appeared to represent a viable third party independent of the Democrats and Republicans.
		A response to the growth of industrialism, the Populists opposed the "concentrated capital" of banks and big businesses and decried the many of the effects that industrialism was having on American society.
		parties have permitted the existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort to prevent or restrain them.
	www.pinzler.com /ushistory/popparplatsupp.html (959 words)

	Populist Party
		The Greenback Party emerged as a force in national politics, leading the agitation for the currency's expansion.
		The Populist platform, backed by nearly religious fervor, advocated an array of progressive ideas, many of which would later be adopted by law or amendment.
		The Populists ran a surprisingly successful campaign in 1892, polling more than one million popular votes and electing several of their number to Congress.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h876.html (912 words)

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