Populism in AlabamaAuburn printing Company, 1927 - 196 páginas |
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... majority of that party.11 Politics must be righted be- fore business could be improved . Another issue always before the people and the press was the question of the state debt . That is , how the more than $ 30,000,000 claims against ...
... majority of that party.11 Politics must be righted be- fore business could be improved . Another issue always before the people and the press was the question of the state debt . That is , how the more than $ 30,000,000 claims against ...
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... majority of Democrats , con- vened at Montgomery November 16 and the leaders in both houses were eager to show their courage to stand for the undoing of the chaotic conditions in Alabama . A motion came from each house calling for a ...
... majority of Democrats , con- vened at Montgomery November 16 and the leaders in both houses were eager to show their courage to stand for the undoing of the chaotic conditions in Alabama . A motion came from each house calling for a ...
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... majority of 56,445 votes . The future history of the state , even though now under a Democratic governor , would depend upon what the legislators did . It was for them to make possible legal changes . True to expectations , 87 the ...
... majority of 56,445 votes . The future history of the state , even though now under a Democratic governor , would depend upon what the legislators did . It was for them to make possible legal changes . True to expectations , 87 the ...
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... majority of the populace.39 Good government was emphasized as the very first want of the state . With the dethronement of the Repub- lican party , its successor had ample opportunity to try out its hand at fulfilling its elaborate list ...
... majority of the populace.39 Good government was emphasized as the very first want of the state . With the dethronement of the Repub- lican party , its successor had ample opportunity to try out its hand at fulfilling its elaborate list ...
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... majority , and opposed endors- ing the Independent candidate , but the few whites in the convention had their way . The warmest24 contest between Greenbacks and Demo- crats was in the eighth Congressional district between General ...
... majority , and opposed endors- ing the Independent candidate , but the few whites in the convention had their way . The warmest24 contest between Greenbacks and Demo- crats was in the eighth Congressional district between General ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Advertiser Age-Herald Agrarian Crusade Agric Agricultural Society Alabama Alliance members April Arnett Article Auburn August ballot bama banks Birmingham black belt Brown Buck candidate Captain Kolb cent Cleveland commission Commissioner Kolb Commissioner of Agriculture contest coöperative cotton delegates Democracy Democratic party DuBose election Eleventh Census executive committee farmers favor fertilizer fraud free silver Governor Jones Grange Granger Movement Greenback Herald Ibid industrial interests Iron Age J. C. DuBose Jeffersonians Johnston July 19 July 24 June June 28 Kolb's labor legislation legislature March McVey Miller Montgomery mortgage negro nomination Oates Ocala Ocala demands organization Owen passim People's party platform political Populism Populist Movement Populist party President Proceedings Fourth Ann railroads Republican S. M. Adams Scrap Book Senate Sept Sess session Solid South state's Third Ann third party ticket tion urged vote white counties white supremacy
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Página 53 - The general purpose of the Patrons was "to labor for the good of our Order, our Country, and Mankind." This altruistic ideal was to find practical application in efforts to enhance the comfort and attractions of homes, to maintain the laws, to advance agricultural and industrial education, to diversify crops, to systematize farm work, to establish cooperative buying and selling, to suppress personal, local, sectional, and national prejudices, and to discountenance "the credit system, the fashion...
Página 164 - York delegation stood here solid and immovable for a candidate committed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 ; and that if we are for it still tt is in some measure from your teachings.
Página 93 - Senate a majority of the party have been recorded not only in favor of bimetallism, but for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.
Página 62 - I take my pen in hand to let you know that I am well, and I hope these few lines will find you enjoying the same blessing.
Página 85 - Why should the farmer delve and ditch, Why should the farmer's wife darn and stitch? The Government can make 'em rich, And the People's Party knows it. So hurrah, hurrah for the great PP 1 = 7 and 0 = 3, A is B and X is Z, And the People's Party knows it l" Greensboro Patriot, July 27, 1892.
Página 89 - We do not claim that it is the best, or the only measure through which relief may be brought to our oppressed, suffering and distressed people, but we submit it as the best we have been able to devise. We would be only too happy to receive at your hands a wiser and a better measure."8 Eighteen-ninety, of course, was an election year.
Página 170 - Palmer, of Illinois, for President, and General Simon Bolivar Buckner, of Kentucky, for Vice President, on a platMcKinley, AD 18971901.
Página 90 - ... And finally, there were discordant elements in the party itself for which there was no single principle, like the limitation of the spread of slavery, potent enough to act as a solvent. Free silver was a weak slogan as compared with free soil. The largest of the farmers' associations, for example, was the Southern Alliance, which claimed a membership of three million. But delegates from seven Southern states threatened to withdraw from the St. Louis conference if an independent political party...
Página 130 - The Democratic party is like a mule. It has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity. IGNATIUS DONNELLY: Speech in the Minnesota Legislature, 1860 Democratic Party 279 Demon I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers.
Página 28 - ... of the Alabama Greenback-Labor party adopted a platform which demanded adequate educational facilities, denounced the convict-lease system, and demanded an equalization of the tax burden.10 Alabama was the only state in which the party made any headway at all, but in that state "Greenbackism . . . was a significant experiment in political discontent, and gave impetus to Populism as its successor in the state."11 The most significant and the largest farmers' organization in the nineteenth century...