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	Netvouz - populist-party bookmarks by populist
		The Populist Party of America works for a Constitutional Democracy, with the Bill of Rights serving to protect the liberties of all people.
		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 their corporate and aristocratic patrons.
		The reason: To have the ability to identify the body in the event such soldier should be lost on a battlefield or long into the future need identification from a war long passed.
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	Britain.tv Wikipedia - Populist
		Hence a populist is one who is perceived to craft his or her rhetoric as appeals to the economic, social, and common sense concerns of average people.
		Populists are seen by some politicians as a largely democratic and positive force in society, even while a wing of scholarship in political science contends that populist mass movements are irrational and introduce instability into the political process.
		The United States saw the formation of such political parties during the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the Populist Party, the Greenback Party, the Single Tax movement of Henry George, the Progressive Party of 1912 led by Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party of 1924 led by Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
	www.britain.tv /wikipedia.php?title=Populist (2355 words)

	United States Democratic Party Encyclopedia Article @ TaxCove.net (Tax Cove) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Democratic Party, in its platform in 2000 and 2004, called for abortion to be "safe, legal and rare"—namely, keeping it legal by rejecting laws that allow governmental interference in abortion decisions, and reducing the number of abortions by promoting both knowledge of reproduction and contraception, and incentives for adoption.
		This party arose from opposition to the policies of the ruling Federalists, dominated by Alexander Hamilton, which advocated a strong central government, a loose interpretation of the Constitution, and a republic governed by elites.
		Prohibition opened a bitter split in the party between the Catholic and ethnic Northern "wets" and the Southern "dries." The deeply divided party was hit by Republican landslides in the presidential elections of 1920, 1924, and 1928.
	www.taxcove.net /encyclopedia/United_States_Democratic_Party (7126 words)

	United States Populist Party
		The Populist Party was a short-lived 19th century political party in the United States.
		A convention was held in Omaha, Nebraska and the Populist Party was formed in 1892.
		By 1896, the Democratic party took up many of the Populist Party's causes and the party faded from the national political scene.
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	Democratic Party (United States) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Party is currently (as of 2005) the minority party in the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, and governorships.
		Of the two major U.S. parties, the Democratic Party is to the left of the Republican Party, though its politics are not as consistently leftist as the traditional social democratic and labor parties in much of the rest of the world.
		From 1833 to 1856, the Democratic Party was opposed chiefly by the Whig Party.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/United_States_Democratic_Party (5387 words)

	Populist Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Populist Party (also known as the People's Party) was a short-lived political party in the United States in the late 19th century.
		The Populist Party was formed by members of the Alliance, in conjunction with the Knights of Labor, in 1889–1890.
		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 - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
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	The Populist Party in Nebraska
		The state's old politicians and major daily newspapers, on the other hand, called the Populists "hay seeds," "horny handed sons of toil," "political thugs," and "hogs in the parlor." It didn't matter.
		The one bright spot for the Populists was that they were able to re-unite with the Democrats in the state legislature and they elected a Populist judge from Madison County, William V. Allen, to the United States Senate.
		The party was able to push through many of their ideas, but they failed to enact their most important proposals.
	www.nebraskastudies.org /0600/stories/0601_0303.html (942 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.
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	The Populist Movement and the Struggle for Reform in America
		The Populists larger concern is that democracy in the United States is threatened by the growth of large national corporations and increasing inequality between the rich and the poor.
		The Populists thus reached out to poor White and Black farmers, arguing that they should ignore their traditional racial animosities and join together to challenge the power of the corporate elite that was destroying their future.
		Populists understood that many American women worked on and owned farms, worked in factories, and were suffering along side their husbands and men as a result of the growing power of large corporations and the wealthy.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/populism.htm (1669 words)

	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)

	Wikinfo \| Populism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Some early left-wing populist parties directly fed into the later emergence of the Socialist movement, while other populist parties have taken on a more right-wing character and fed the careers of people widely viewed as demagogues, such as Father Charles Coughlin.
		Populism has also at times been adopted as a vehicle for extreme radicals; in 1984 the Populist Party name was revived but was used in 1988 as a vehicle for the Presidential campaign of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.
		It could be argued that none of these men were genuine populists because they usually saw the masses as not fit to govern for themselves and therefore their elitist and privileged style of leadership was needed to govern and regulate the behaviour of the masses.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Populism (791 words)

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		Doris Haddock, also known as Granny D, walked across the United States in her 90th year in 1999-2000 to bring attention to the need for campaign finance reform and she hasn't stopped agitating since then.
		Populist Party of America, Midwest Alliance, seeks to restore democracy by increasing public participation in government and reducing the power of elitist "think tanks" and corporate lobbyists.
		VoteTrustUSA.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, founded by national and state leaders of the election integrity and e-voting reform movement to ensure that future elections are free, fair, accountable and accurately reflect the intentions of the voters.
	www.populist.com /links.html (4619 words)

	Populist party — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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,...
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	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.
		The party selected James Weaver as its candidate for the presidency of the United States.
	www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=967 (524 words)

	Amazon.com: The Wool-Hat Boys: Georgia's Populist Party: Books: Barton C. Shaw (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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 (1019 words)

	Farmers, The Populist Party, and Mississippi (1870-1900) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		In Mississippi, the state legislature passed the direct primary law in 1903 which led to the election of pro-farmer Democratic governors like James K. Vardaman (1904-1908) and Theodore G. Bilbo (1916-1920 and 1928-1932) whose administrations passed into law many of the demands of the Mississippi farmers.
	mshistory.k12.ms.us /features/feature42/populistparty.html (1977 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)

	Populist Party Platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		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.
		We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we believe that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered....
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	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)

	PEOPLE'S PARTY PLATFORM
		The most successful of the agrarian political movements was the People's Party, or the Populist Party, which after the 1892 presidential campaign appeared to have the strength to become a potent force in American politics.
		The People's Party, assembled in National Convention, reaffirms its allegiance to the principles declared by the founders of the Republic, and also to the fundamental principles of just government as enunciated in the platform of the party in 1892.
		The interest of the United States in the public highways built with public moneys, and the proceeds of grants of land to the Pacific railroads, should never be alienated, mortgaged, or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare, as provided by the laws organizing such railroads.
	usinfo.state.gov /usa/infousa/facts/democrac/29.htm (1307 words)

	Politics1 - Guide to American Political Parties
		Allies of the hardcore faction firmly held control of the party from the late-1980s until the moderates seized control at the 2006 national convention and gutted the party's original platform.
		The party ran nuclear physicist John Hagelin as the NLP Presidential nominee in 1992 (ballot status in 32 stares - 39,000 votes - 0.04%), 1996 (ballot status in 44 states - 7th place - 110,000 votes - 0.1%) and 2000 (ballot status in 39 stares - 7th place - 83,000 votes - 0.08%).
		For 2004, former Democratic State Senator Walt Brown of Oregon is the SPUSA Presidential nominee.
	www.politics1.com /parties.htm (9405 words)

	Primary Sources
		The people are demoralized; most of the States have been compelled to isolate the voters at the polling places to prevent universal intimidation and bribery.
		First—That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day consummated shall be permanent and perpetual; may its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the Republic and the uplifting of mankind.
		We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered.
	college.hmco.com /history/us/resources/students/primary/populist.htm (1522 words)

	Populist Party Platform
		The Populist Party attracted support largely from farmers in the South and West.
		At its 1892 National Convention, the Party sought to broaden its base in the upcoming presidential election, striving to appeal especially to urban workers and to create a farmer-worker alliance.
		[3] First.-That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day consummated shall be permanent and perpetual; may its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvation of the Republic and the uplifting of mankind.
	history.hanover.edu /courses/excerpts/111pop.html (1001 words)

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