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Cincinnati (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
People's party. The Farmer's Alliance may be considered its nucleus. It was organized at Cincinnati in May, 1891, and in 1892 it nominated for President Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, and James G. Field, of Virginia, for Vice-President. In the ensuing election Weaver received 22 electoral votes (in the West), and 1,041,028 popular votes. Several Senators and Representatives in the later Congresses have been Populists. In the Presidential election of 1896 the People's party combined with the Democratic party in nominating William J. Bryan for President, but nominated Thomas E. Watson for Vice-President. See political parties in the United States; Presidential elections. The Hon. W. A. Peffer, late United States Senator for Kansas, one of the leaders of the People's party, wrote as follows during the campaign of 1900: That the People's party is passing must be evident to all observers. Why it is going, and where, are obviously questions of present public concern.
Chicago (Illinois, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
ver and gold at the sixteen-to-one ratio, and every United States bond now out expressly declares on its face that it is redeemable, principal and interest, in coin of the standard value of July 14, 1870, and the ratio was sixteen to one at that time. Besides, the greenbacks and treasury notes are all redeemable in that kind of coin, and for these reasons Populists are not willing to change the ratio. Nor can they agree with the Democrats on the subject of government paper money. The Chicago platform says: We demand that all paper which is made legal tender for public and private debts, or which is receivable for duties to the United States, shall be issued by the government of the United States and shall be redeemable in coin. That is to say, not that we demand or favor that kind of paper; but that, if any of it is issued, it shall be redeemable in coin. The truth is, the Democratic party is now, as it has always been, opposed to government legal-tender paper money.
Nebraska (Nebraska, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
tion, cannot, in the opinion of the Anti-fusionists, be safely accepted or allowed. It lacks evidence of party loyalty in the first place, they say; it lacks good faith in the second place; and in the third place it is wanting in truth. They are not waiting. On the contrary, they are actively at work forming local alliances preparatory to the Congressional campaign in 1898 and the Presidential contest in 1900. In every part of the country where they are comparatively strong, as in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, they are in hearty accord with the fusion Democrats. In Iowa, at the late election, the regular State convention of the People's party refused to put out a ticket of its own, and personally the fusion members united in support of the Democratic nominees from governor down. In Nebraska, where the Populists are largely in majority over Democrats, they united in support of a ticket headed by a Democrat. In Kansas the patronage of the State administration (Populist) is divided a
Edgefield (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
s to their fusion brethren, for they have warned them from time to time of attempts of their national committee to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over them. They have repeatedly asked for a conference of the disagreeing factions, with the view of a friendly adjustment of their differences, but no attention is paid to these requests. And that their number and temper might not be underestimated or their motives and wishes misunderstood, they called a conference themselves, held at Nashville, Tenn., July 4, 1897, and on that occasion it was unanimously resolved by them to have no further union or alliance with other parties, and a committee was appointed to reorganize the Anti-fusion Populists of the country. Several independent suggestions have been submitted by individual Anti-fusionists on their own responsibility, proposing plans to bring the members of the party together on new lines. One of these is to call a conference of delegates representing all political bodies that
Iowa (Iowa, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
The Farmer's Alliance may be considered its nucleus. It was organized at Cincinnati in May, 1891, and in 1892 it nominated for President Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, and James G. Field, of Virginia, for Vice-President. In the ensuing election Weaver received 22 electoral votes (in the West), and 1,041,028 popular votes. Sevees preparatory to the Congressional campaign in 1898 and the Presidential contest in 1900. In every part of the country where they are comparatively strong, as in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, they are in hearty accord with the fusion Democrats. In Iowa, at the late election, the regular State convention of the People's party refuIowa, at the late election, the regular State convention of the People's party refused to put out a ticket of its own, and personally the fusion members united in support of the Democratic nominees from governor down. In Nebraska, where the Populists are largely in majority over Democrats, they united in support of a ticket headed by a Democrat. In Kansas the patronage of the State administration (Populist) is
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
Thomas E. Watson for Vice-President. See political parties in the United States; Presidential elections. The Hon. W. A. Peffer, late United States Senator for Kansas, one of the leaders of the People's party, wrote as follows during the campaign of 1900: That the People's party is passing must be evident to all observers. Congressional campaign in 1898 and the Presidential contest in 1900. In every part of the country where they are comparatively strong, as in Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas, they are in hearty accord with the fusion Democrats. In Iowa, at the late election, the regular State convention of the People's party refused to put out a tickominees from governor down. In Nebraska, where the Populists are largely in majority over Democrats, they united in support of a ticket headed by a Democrat. In Kansas the patronage of the State administration (Populist) is divided among the parties to the triple alliance of 1896. These things indicate the direction of politi
London, Madison County, Ohio (Ohio, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
95, of which the ninth section is as follows: From and after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to receive at any United States mint, from any citizen of the United States, silver bullion of standard fineness, and coin the same into silver dollars of 412 1/2 grains each. The seigniorage on the said bullion shall belong to the United States, and shall be the difference between the coinage value thereof and the price of the bullion in London on the day the deposit is made, etc. The Democrats are now everywhere trying to get together on the silver question, and they can readily effect a union by agreeing to a law which shall have this section nine as one of its provisions. It is proverbially a party of compromise. A party with Bryan and Croker working harmoniously together in it need not struggle hard or long over so trifling a matter as the ratio between silver and gold. There is nothing in any of the public utterances of
Arkansas (Arkansas, United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
uniformly opposed internal improvement by the general government except for military or naval purposes. That party believes in metallic money as the only real money; it is a hard money party, and it favors State bank-notes for currency. And while from the Populist doctrine on silver coinage, sixteen to one was made the Bryan battle-cry in 1896, there is no evidence that his party had then or has since changed front on the theory of Senate bill No. 2,642, introduced by Senator Jones, of Arkansas, on Jan. 23, 1895, of which the ninth section is as follows: From and after the passage of this act the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to receive at any United States mint, from any citizen of the United States, silver bullion of standard fineness, and coin the same into silver dollars of 412 1/2 grains each. The seigniorage on the said bullion shall belong to the United States, and shall be the difference between the coinage value thereof and the price o
United States (United States) (search for this): entry people-s-party
elections. The Hon. W. A. Peffer, late United States Senator for Kansas, one of the leaders of to re-establish popular government in the United States, and the people would be in power again. rd answer. They believe the people of the United States constitute a nation; they believe the govenited States mint, from any citizen of the United States, silver bullion of standard fineness, and ge on the said bullion shall belong to the United States, and shall be the difference between the cd at the sixteen-to-one ratio, and every United States bond now out expressly declares on its fac, or which is receivable for duties to the United States, shall be issued by the government of the United States and shall be redeemable in coin. That is to say, not that we demand or favor that tary of the Treasury to issue bonds of the United States to the amount of $500,000,000, coupon or r the government, and for the redemption of United States legal-tender notes and of treasury notes i
Thomas E. Watson (search for this): entry people-s-party
at Cincinnati in May, 1891, and in 1892 it nominated for President Gen. James B. Weaver, of Iowa, and James G. Field, of Virginia, for Vice-President. In the ensuing election Weaver received 22 electoral votes (in the West), and 1,041,028 popular votes. Several Senators and Representatives in the later Congresses have been Populists. In the Presidential election of 1896 the People's party combined with the Democratic party in nominating William J. Bryan for President, but nominated Thomas E. Watson for Vice-President. See political parties in the United States; Presidential elections. The Hon. W. A. Peffer, late United States Senator for Kansas, one of the leaders of the People's party, wrote as follows during the campaign of 1900: That the People's party is passing must be evident to all observers. Why it is going, and where, are obviously questions of present public concern. The party has a good and sufficient excuse for its existence. With our great war old issu
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