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Populism & the Election of 1896 By:  Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS  Chappaqua, NY
What were some of the major problems facing farmers during the Gilded Age ??
The Silver Issue ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Populism: An Agrarian Revolt
Price Indexes for Consumer & Farm Products:  1865-1913
Founder of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry  (1867)
The Grange Movement ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Supreme Court Decisions ,[object Object],[object Object]
Gift for the Grangers: The  Farmer Pays  for All!
The Farmers Alliances ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
United We Stand, Divided We Fall ,[object Object]
The Populist (Peoples’) Party ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Platform of Lunacy
The Populist (Peoples’) Party ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],James B. Weaver, Presidential Candidate & James G. Field, VP
Omaha Platform of 1892 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Govt.-Owned Companies
1892 Election
Bi-Metallism Issue
The Panic of 1893
Causes of the 1893 Panic ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Here Lies Prosperity
Written by a Farmer at the End of the 19c When the banker says he's broke   And the merchant’s up in smoke,   They forget that it's the farmer    who feeds them all.   It would put them to the test   If the farmer took a rest;   Then they'd know that it's the farmer    feeds them all.
Coxey’s Army, 1894 ,[object Object],[object Object]
Result of Election Returns   ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The 1896 Election
Gold / Silver Bug  Campaign Pins
William Jennings Bryan  (1860-1925) The “Great Commoner”
William Jennings Bryan Prairie avenger,    mountain lion, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan,    Bryan, Gigantic troubadour,    speaking like a siege    gun, Smashing Plymouth Rock    with his boulders   from the West. ,[object Object]
Bryant’s “Cross of Gold” Speech You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a   cross of gold !
Bryan: The Farmers Friend (The Mint Ratio) 18,000 miles of campaign “whistle stops.”
Democratic Party Taken Over by the Agrarian Left Platform    tariff reductions;  income tax;  stricter control of the trusts (esp. RRs); free silver.
Mark Hanna:  The “Front-Porch” Campaign
 
William McKinley  (1843-1901)
Mark Hanna to Candidate    McKinley
“ A Giant Straddle”:  Suggestion for a McKinley Political Poster
The Seasoned Politician vs. The “Young” Newcomer
Joshua A. Levering:  Prohibition Party
Into Which Box Will the Voter of ’96 Place His Ballot?
1896 Election Results
Why Did Bryan Loose? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Gold Triumphs Over Silver ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
The Wizard  of Oz   by L. Frank Baum
1964:  Henry Littlefield’s    “Thesis”?
“ Parable of the Populists”? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Heyday of Western Populism
Why Did Populism Decline? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
But, Populism Still Lives! Al Gore (Dem) in 2000
But, Populism Still Lives! John Edwards (Dem) in 2008

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