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United States People's Party, 1890–1896

The national People's Party's claims, platforms, and electoral strategy from organization through the 1896 campaign; not American agrarian politics generally.

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Boundary: The national People's Party's claims, platforms, and electoral strategy from organization through the 1896 campaign; not American agrarian politics generally.
Why this case: The named Populist Party supplies a historical agrarian movement whose self-description and proposals can be separated from later scholarly uses of populism.
United States People's Party, 1890–1896 1890–1896

The national People's Party's claims, platforms, and electoral strategy from organization through the 1896 campaign; not American agrarian politics generally.

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The Omaha Platform demanded public control of railroads and communications, a national currency, graduated income taxation, and measures intended to secure a free ballot.

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The People's Party's 1896 platform reaffirmed its 1892 principles while supporting electoral cooperation around William Jennings Bryan, showing that movement claims and party strategy changed within the case period.

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