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Populist party
Populist party in U.S. history, political party formed primarily to express the agrarian protest of the late 19th cent. In some states the party was known as the People's party. Formation of the Party During the Panic of 1873 agricultural prices in the United States began to decline. The ... Read more
Ignatius Donnelly
Ignatius Donnelly , 1831-1901, American author and agrarian reformer, b. Philadelphia. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and in 1856 moved to Minnesota. There he gained political prominence, was lieutenant governor (1859-63), Congressman (1863-69), and a state legislator. Strongly expounding ... Read more
Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao , 1888-1927, professor of history and librarian at Beijing Univ., cofounder of the Chinese Communist party with Chen Duxiu . He was the first important Chinese intellectual to support the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. A leader in the May Fourth Movement (1919), he organized several Ma... Read more
Leonidas Lafayette Polk
Leonidas Lafayette Polk 1837-92, American agrarian leader, b. Anson co., N.C. After studying agriculture at Davidson College, he managed a plantation in North Carolina, served with the Confederate army in the Civil War, and then returned to farming. He led in the North Carolina Granger movement aft... Read more
William Hope Harvey
William Hope Harvey 1851-1936, American writer on economics, called Coin Harvey, b. Buffalo, Putnam co., W.Va. He studied at Marshall College, practiced law, and interested himself in monetary problems. He was a vigorous advocate of bimetallism at the time the argument over coinage of silver was ... Read more
free silver
free silver in U.S. history, term designating the political movement for the unlimited coinage of silver. Origins of the Movement Free silver became a popular issue soon after the Panic of 1873, and it was a major issue in the next quarter century. The hard times of 1873-78 stimulated adv... Read more
Jerry Brown
Jerry Brown (Edmund Gerald Brown, Jr.), 1938-, American political leader, b. San Francisco. The son of Edmund Gerald (Pat) Brown (1905-96), governor of California (1959-67), Brown abandoned early ideas of entering the priesthood and obtained a law degree (Yale, 1964). He entered California politics... Read more
Joseph Gurney Cannon
Joseph Gurney Cannon 1836-1926, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (1903-11), b. Guilford co., N.C. A lawyer in Illinois, Cannon served as a Republican in Congress from 1873 to 1923, except for the years 1891-93 and 1913-15, when first the Populists and then the Progressives were able to ... Read more
Hamlin Garland
Hamlin Garland 1860-1940, American author, b. near West Salem, Wis. He grew up in the Middle Western farmlands, the region he later wrote about in verse, stories, and autobiography. His tales, collected as Main-travelled Roads (1891), Prairie Folks (1893), and Wayside Courtships (1897), were ... Read more
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Mary Elizabeth Lease 1853-1933, American agrarian reformer and temperance advocate, b. Ridgeway, Pa. The daughter of an Irish political refugee, she first gained recognition for a series of lectures (1885-87) on Ireland and the Irish. She had gone to Kansas as a young woman, was admitted to the bar... Read more

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Populist Era
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...rural folkways antedating the Civil War . Populist Politics. The politics of the Populist Era were issue‐oriented...that often seemed indistinguishable, the Populist party and Populists generally took a sharply different approach...
Populist Party
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...an aspect of the Populists’ financial...Jennings Bryan . The Populist party thus faced...McKinley won despite Populist support for Bryan...faded, leaving Populists with only the consoling...For many, the Populist movement remains...x201C;The Populists’ message...
Populist party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...The goal of the Populists in 1892 was no less...Weaver was the Populist candidate for President...000 votes. The Populist votes in the 1894...platform, the Populists kept intact their...President. Although the Populists tried to retain...the bulk of the Populist votes in 1896...
Populist Movement
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History POPULIST MOVEMENT The Populist Movement is the name given...The next important wave of populist reformism emerged in the 1890s...strategic political goal of the Populist Party was to displace the...Equally important, the Populists, at least in principle...
Social Democratic Populist Party
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa SOCIAL DEMOCRATIC POPULIST PARTY Center-left political party...1985 to 1998. The Social Democratic Populist Party (Sosyal Demo-krat Halk...n ü , and Necdet Calp's Populist Party, which also was founded in 1983...
Flat Tax Provision (Issue)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...1880s, culminating in the formation of the Populist Party in Omaha, Nebraska in 1892. Populists advocated ending the gold standard, reducing...a platform of lower tariffs. Although the Populist Party won only nine percent of the presidential...
Ignatius Donnelly
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...involved in the establishment of the Populist, or People's, Party. Presiding...1892 platform, he was among the Populists' foremost leaders. Four years later...ran for the vice presidency on the Populist ticket in 1900. Late in life Donnelly...
Populism
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Further, the causes of populist movements are quite...x2019; Alliance. Populists formed their own political...presidential election. Populist movements in somewhat...major figures in the populist movement, the alliance...revered document among Populists who regarded it as a...
Socialism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History ...Nikolai G. Chernyshevsky, the populists gained a substantial following...1860s and 1870s. Although all populists agreed that Russia could by...The failed attempt by the populist Dmitry V. Karakozov to assassinate...But the ultimate goal of the populists was to prepare the masses...
Mary Elizebeth Clyens Lease
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...gained national fame during the Populist crusade for reform in the...campaign of 1892, accompanying Populist candidate James Baird Weaver...speeches a day. When the Populists gained control of the administration...antifusion faction in the Populist party, which fought a merger...

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Middle-of-the-Road Populists
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD POPULISTS, the name given during...of the People's (Populist) Party who objected...convention to nominate a Populist, Thomas E. Watson...Middle-of-the-Road Populists formed a separate organization...Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History...
populist
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...x220E;  ( Populist ) a member of the Populist Party, a U.S. political party formed in 1891...monopolies. • adj. of or relating to a populist or populists: a populist leader. DERIVATIVES: pop·u·...
Populist Movement
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Populist Movement (Russia) A group of agrarian socialists in Russia devoted to...were soon persecuted by the police. In 1879 the most radical wing of the Populist group re-formed under the name of the People's Will Movement and began...
Populist Party
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Populist Party (USA) A US agrarian organization that began in 1889 as a grouping of southern and western interests seeking to remedy the...
Populism: United States
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...a simpler life. Populist movements often...development that the populists find threatening...historically, powerful populist movements have arisen...On the left, populists are usually concerned...more conservative populists prefer a movement...most influential populist movement is ...
Populism: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...identified with such preeminent populists as L á zaro C...beginning in the 1960s ended the populist phase. But since the 1980s...goings-on have been called "populist." These include radical...grassroots peasant movements (the populist Mexican Revolution's Zapatistas...
Ocala Platform
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...behalf. In July 1892 they organized the Populist Party at Omaha, Nebraska, and nominated...finished third in the race. In 1896 the Populist Party fused with the Democratic Party...second to William McKinley, and the Populist Party soon disbanded. BIBLIOGRAPHY Hicks...
Third Parties
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Nothing Party, and the agrarian Populist parties have been most valuable...nineteenth century, the agrarian Populist protest movement produced...Some of the more radical Populist schemes proposing public ownership...electoral votes. That year Populists sent a dozen congressmen to...
Oregon System
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...initiative and referendum, populist lawmaking tools. The former...become a major goal of the Populist movement, which aimed to...the electoral project of the Populists. He used his party to create...Thus, the strong residual populist influence on politics in the...
Coxey's Army
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Industrials, demanded measures that were mainly Populist, and they were generally supported By the Populists and organized labor. Although they failed...of the period and as an unusual type of Populist propaganda. BIBLIOGRAPHY McMurry, Donald...

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A populist, and proud of it. (The People's or Populist Party of 1890's)
Magazine article from: National Review; 10/19/1984; ; 700+ words ; ...SOME CIRCLES the term "populist" is a synonym for...To say that every populist is a demagogue is as...The 1980s-style populists I describe in The Establishment...run the government. Populists stand in opposition...a better word than "populist" to describe the people...
Why democrats must be populists: and what populist-phobes don't understand about America.
Magazine article from: The American Prospect; 9/9/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...late 19th-century populists were an amalgam of themes...nativist current within the populists; there was also considerable...claimed to be wearing the populist mantle in their attacks...there was a defining populist worldview that has influenced...worldview was what the populists called ...
Right-wing populist parties in Austria and Switzerland: a comparative analysis of electoral support and conditions of success.
Magazine article from: West European Politics; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...the comparative study of right-wing populist parties as one of the most discussed...identifying the relevant right-wing populist parties in both countries. This is then...conditions of success for right-wing populist parties. DEFINING RIGHT-WING POPULIST...
For the People: American Populist Movements from the Revolution to the 1850s.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 5/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...discovers a remarkable shift in populist strategy from the archaic...violence, most significantly populist engagement in grassroots...By refusing to portray some populists as either progressive heroes...thoroughly convincing. By placing populist movements front and center...
Populist Party plans Nashville convention.
PR Newswire; 6/26/1984; 700+ words ; ...Tenn., June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Populist Party of the United States will meet...This event will mark the first time the Populist Party has held a convention since 1892...Opry, was the unanimous choice of the Populist Party National Executive Advisory Conference...
Populist Pitch -- Without the Punch; Both Parties Claim Title, but Neither Makes Full-Scale Attack on Moneyed Interests
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/6/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...are stepping up efforts to claim the title "populist." "President Bush is a populist," Bush senior adviser Karl Rove declared last...president's latest string of speeches had populist themes. House Democrats, meanwhile, have...
Ag group has Populist roots
Newspaper article from: The Topeka Capital-Journal; 5/23/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...industry," Populists charged...us!" Kansas Populist organizer Mary...of the Kansas Populists. Nevertheless, the state's Populist voices continue...organize the neo-Populist federation...Center. "Are we Populists, or are we...
The perils of a populist age; Podium From the Mishcon Lecture given by the Principal of Mansfield College, O xford, at University College, London
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/25/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...intermediaries as remain. Populists speak of "the people...to whom, in the populist vision, sovereignty...has been argued in populist language, but only...don't claim that populists cannot answer those...Here too, the populist answers are sterile...destructive. For populists, ...
The Results of Populist Chic
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 11/13/1991; ; 700+ words ; ...That too is a part of the populist tradition that its current...attachment to the common man, populist politicians frequently gave...it so loosely, the neo-populists of the left and right can...constitutional convention to adopt the populist ploy of abolishing party nominations...
Populists set up camp in House.(PLUGGED IN - POLITICS)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 2/17/2009; 700+ words ; ...Asked if President Obama is a populist, Mr. Braley hedges. I think...communicating, he is definitely a populist, he said, but a lot remains...its trade agenda. The new populists are deeply skeptical of the...administrations of the recent past. Populist Caucus members say they will...