The Populists had the choice of endorsing Bryan or running their own candidate.

He discounted third party links to Progressivism and argued that Populists were provincial, conspiracy-minded, and had a tendency toward scapegoatism that manifested itself as nativism, anti-Semitism, anti-intellectualism, and Anglophobia.

He had also been endorsed by the Populists and Silver Republicans.

Once the Populists supported an idea, it became so tainted that the vast majority of American politicians rejected it ; only years later, after the taint had been forgotten, was it possible to achieve Populist reforms, such as the direct popular election of Senators.

It was disclosed that President Grover Cleveland had sold bonds to a syndicate which included J. P. Morgan and the Rothschilds house, bonds which that syndicate was now selling for a profit, the Populists used it as an opportunity to uphold their view of history, and prove to the nation that Washington and Wall Street were in the hands of the international Jewish banking houses.

Thomson's own description of his legal problems is given in flat, understated New England dryness and couched in seeming venal paranoia .... After finishing the later material, offering 3rd party perspective, you realize that Thomson's movement had affected a million or more Americans, started a medical reformation that would not peak for another 50 years, and the brightest medical minds of the time were split vehemently both against and for Thomson's right to practice ... bitterly divided between Federalists and Republican politics ... Populists and Elitists ... rural and urban.

Subsequently Foster saw to the adoption of the Louisiana Constitution of 1898, " to disenfranchise blacks, Republicans, and white Populists " ( all of whom had voted overwhelmingly for John N. Pharr ) and moved Louisiana more toward " Solid South " Democratic hegemony.

The notion that the black man had somehow betrayed Populism would constantly haunt the Georgia People's Party from the very beginning Populists had realized the political importance of blacks.

The third party Populists, who had high support among farmers and laborers in the South and West, also gained a few seats.

Kansas has had 45 governors: 32 Republicans, 11 Democrats, and 2 Populists.

Kansas has had 33 US Senators: 28 Republicans, 3 Democrats, and 2 Populists.

In that year's presidential election, the Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, who focused ( as Populists rarely did ) on the free silver issue as a solution to the economic depression and the maldistribution of power.

The Populists likely would have nominated Polk for president in 1892 ( see U. S. presidential election, 1892 ), but he died unexpectedly from a hemorrhaging bladder in Washington, D. C. on June 11, 1892.

In 1896, he was elected governor on a Fusionist ticket, a collaboration between Republicans and Populists that was victorious over the Democrats.

However, Bryan did gain the support of the Populists, as well as a convention of Silver Republicans.

He was a staunch supporter of the gold standard, vehemently opposing the Populists and the silverites, who were led by the left-wing Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

One of the great orators of the day, Bryan generated enormous excitement among Democrats with his " Cross of Gold " speech, and appeared in the summer of 1896 to have a good chance of winning the election, if the Populists voted for him.

Some historians see a close link between the Populists of the 1890s and the progressives of 1900-1912, but most of the leading progressives ( except Bryan himself ) fiercely opposed Populism.

The remaining Populists also endorsed Bryan, hoping to retain some influence by having a voice inside the Bryan movement.

In 1896, Butler strongly supported William Jennings Bryan, a Democrat, in his quest for the Presidency, while ironically continuing to encourage cooperation between Populists and Republicans in North Carolina.

In 1896 White attracted national attention with a scathing attack on William Jennings Bryan, the Democrats, and the Populists titled " What's the Matter With Kansas?

The Populists also endorsed Bryan and free silver in 1896, which marked the effective end of their independence.

The agrarians formed a coalition with the Populists and vehemently denounced the politics of big business, especially in the decisive 1896 election, won by Republican William McKinley, who was easily reelected over Bryan in 1900 as well.

In Russia the intellectuals of the " Populists " ( Narodnaya Volya ) and, later, the Socialist-Revolutionary Party developed a theoretical basis for a peasant movement, building a rich, well-developed humanistic ideology which influenced eastern Europe, especially the Balkans.

One Republican Minnesota state legislator was clear about what his party was trying to do: " We don't propose to allow the Democrats to make allies of the Populists, Prohibitionists, or any other party, and get up combination tickets against us.

An opponent of the gold standard and national banks, he is most famous as the presidential nominee of the People's Party ( commonly known as the " Populists ") in the 1892 election.

In 1891 Weaver helped found the People's Party, a group commonly known as the " Populists.

Populists did best in Alabama, where electoral chicanery probably carried the day for Democrats.

He authored several Senate bills that advanced ideas advocated by the Populists: a bill to foster the creation of worker-owned cooperatives, and a bill to allow the issuance of currency backed by land value instead of only the gold standard.

: This is about the American political party commonly known as the " Populists " which existed from 1892 to 1908.

For example, in the elections of 1894, a coalition of Populists and Republicans led by Populist Marion Butler swept state and local offices in North Carolina, and the coalition would go on to elect Republican Daniel Lindsay Russell as Governor in 1896.

Quite separate from the Populists were the Silverites in the western mining states, who demanded Free silver to solve the Panic of 1893.

The Populists followed the Prohibition Party in actively including women in their affairs.

Some southern Populists, including Thomas E. Watson of Georgia, openly talked of the need for poor blacks and poor whites to set aside their racial differences in the name of shared economic self-interest.

By 1898, the Democrats used a violently racist campaign to defeat the North Carolina Populists and GOP and in 1900 the Democrats ushered in disfranchisement.

Since the 1890s historians have vigorously debated the nature of Populism ; most scholars have been liberals who admired the Populists for their attacks on banks and railroads.

Corruption accounted for such outrages and Populists presented popular control of government as the solution, a point that later students of republicanism emphasized.

Postel ( 2007 ) rejects the notion that the Populists were traditionalistic and anti-modern.

Between 1880 and 1904, Republican presidential candidates in the South received between 35 and 40 percent of that section's vote ( except in 1892, when the 16 percent for the Populists knocked Republicans down to 25 percent ).

During his tenure with the Populists, Butler was an advocate of " Fusion ", meaning outright cooperation with the North Carolina ( and national ) Republican Party as a means to achieve some of the more important goals of his party.

However, facing the limitations in attempting to implement their reforms absent of engaging the electoral process, Black Populists helped to launch the People ’ s Party and used the then left-of-centre Republican Party in fusion campaigns.

The party was formed in 1896 from an alliance of Democrats, Free Silver Republicans, and Populists who were opposed to the platform of the state Republican Party.