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Barns, William D. "Farmers
Versus Scientists: The Grange, the Farmers' Alliance, and the West
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station." Proceedings of the West
Virginia Academy of Science. 37:197-206. 1965.
West Virginia's first agricultural experiment station and its
directors versus practical "applied" science Grangers, etc.
_____. "The Granger and
Populist Movements in West Virginia, 1873-1914." Ph.D. Dissertation,
U of West Virginia, 1947.
Benson, Lee. "The New York
Farmers' Rejection of Populism: The Background." M.A. Thesis,
Columbia U, 1948.
Berman, David R. "Electoral
Support for Populism in the Mountain States: Some Evidence from
Arizona." Social Science Journal 1987
24(1): 43-52. Stressful
changes in Arizona miners' occupational status created a new class of
industrial workers who became Populists.
Dailey, Alan D. "Agrarian
Movements in Indiana, 1870-1896, Compared with the Movements in Other
Middle Western States." M.A. Thesis, Indiana U, 1947.
Dimter, Lauren H. "Populism
in Utah." M.A. Thesis, Brigham Young U, 1914.
Doolen, Richard M. "Pastor
in Politics: The Congressional Career of the Reverend Gilbert de la Matyr."
Indiana Magazine of History 1972 68(2): 103-124.
Methodist minister Gilbert De La Matyr began preaching in favor of
financial and currency reform he catapulted in the 1870s.
His references to the moneyed classes as oppressors of the masses
incurred the wrath of conservatives.
In 1878, the Indianapolis Sun became his defender and began
carrying his sermons on financial reform.
His fellow ministers forced him to retire from the pulpit in 1878,
when he ran for Congress on the Greenback Party ticket.
Once in Washington, he did propose several pieces of legislation
but none passed. He was
defeated for reelection in 1880 when the Democrats withdrew from fusion.
De La Matyr probably brought Greenbackism a certain degree of
respectability. Fleming,
Elvis E. "'Sockless' Jerry Simpson: The New Mexico Years,
1902-1905." New Mexico Historical Review 69 (January 1994):
49-70. Simpson moved to New
Mexico for health reasons. He
became active in the political and economic live of his new home.
Fry, Joseph A. "Silver and
Sentiment: The Nevada Press and the Coming of the Spanish-American
War." Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 1977 20(4): 222-239. All Nevada newspapers criticized Spanish rule in Cuba and
most disagreed with Cuban policies of President William McKinley
(1843-1901). Populist and
Democratic papers resorted to yellow journalism and advocated war with
Spain to improve Nevada's economy. Republican
papers called for war with Spain, but cited principally self-defense and
humanitarian reasons.
Gersuny, Carl. "John Francis
Smith, Heterodox Yankee Printer." Rhode Island History 1979
38(3): 87-95. A Rhode Island
publisher and editor, John Francis Smith embraced many causes, ranging
from Socialism, Populism, Libertarianism, and Secularism to energy
conservation, environmental protection, and the rights of women and
children.
Glass, Mary Ellen. Silver and
Politics in Nevada, 1892-1902. Reno: U of Nevada P, 1969.
Goldschmidt, Eli. "Labor and
Populism: New York City, 1891-1896." Labor History 1972 13(4):
520-532. New York City
laborers did not vote for Populists because they opposed free silver and
the believed Populism was essentially an agricultural movement with little
to offer to labor.
Griffiths, David B. "Far
Western Populism: The Case of Utah, 1893-1900." Utah Historical
Quarterly. 37(4):396-407. Fall 1969.
Populism in Utah built its program around labor reform legislation
and political reform. It drew
its support primarily from labor sources.
Larson, Robert W. New Mexico's
Quest for Statehood, 1846-1912. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1968.
Chapter 11, "Free Silver and Populism."
_____. New Mexico Populism: A
Study of Radical Protest in a Western Territory. 240 P. Boulder,
Colorado Associated UP, 1974. _____. "Populism in New Mexico." In New Mexico, Past and Present: A Historical Reader. Pp. 184-89. Richard n. Ellis, ed. Albuquerque: U of New Mexico P, 1971. America: History and Life, 13a:6859
_____. "The White Caps of
New Mexico: A Study of Ethnic Militancy in the Southwest." Pacific
Historical Review. 44(2):171-85. 1975.
Juan José Herrera organized the white caps of New Mexico to
save hispanic communal land grant (Las Vegas community grant) from Anglo
and corporate ranchers. Their
activities dramatized the issue sufficiently that legislative and court
action preserved the grant. The white caps were also responsible for the
rapid growth of the Knights of Labor in San Miguel County.
Herrera also organized the People's Party, which had some success
in 1890 and 1892. Lilley,
William, III. "The Early Career of Francis G. Newlands,
1848-1897." Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 1965.
Includes Silver and Populist Parties.
Macoll, John D. "Ezra a.
Olleman: The Forgotten Man of Greenbackism, 1873-1876." Indiana
Magazine of History 1969 65(3): 173-196.
A prosperous Indiana merchant, Olleman became one of the prime
movers in the Greenback movement. As
associate editor of the Indiana Farmer, Olleman helped found the
Greenback Party in Indiana, but in 1876 he fell out with the State's party
leaders. His lasting
influence is a result of his editorial work for the Greenback movement.
MacFerran, William, Jr.
"Col. Hughes and the Legislative War." Shawnee County
Historical Society, Bulletin. 17:25‑29. December 1952.
On the refusal of James W. F. Hughes, commanding the National Guard
of Kansas, to obey the order of L.D. Lewelling, Populist Governor of
Kansas, to expel Republican members of the House of Representatives in
1893.
Nutter, Kathleen Banks.
"'This Greenback Lunacy': Third Party Politics in Franklin County,
1878." Historical Journal of Massachusetts 1994 22(2):
106-120. Advocates of the Greenback Party in Greenfield, Massachusetts
included farmers, skilled and unskilled laborers, small business owners,
and professionals. They
accepted industrial capitalism and sought to define their role in the new
system.
Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and
Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in
America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 19977. Derived from
the author's 1992 MIT Political Science Ph.D. dissertation, "Parties
and the Politics of Money: The Antimonopoly Tradition and American
Political Development, 1865-1896."
Various movements from the National Labor Union to the Populists
were involved in the antimonopoly movement had an alternative political
economy tradition rooted in the republican persuasion of Jeffersonians and
Jacksonians. They sought to
preserve economic opportunity and political participation for all classes
in all regions of the country. Antimonopolists
were particularly concerned with reforming the monetary and banking
systems, in order to mitigate economic inequality and political
corruption. The author uses
three case studies to consider the impact of geography - North Carolina,
Illinois, and Massachusetts. Antimonopolism
was a strong, coherent tradition which offered an intellectually
reasonable alternative to corporate liberalism.
They failed because of the combined constraints of the party
system, the political culture, economic institutions, and poor strategic
choices.
Rusco, Elmer R. "Campaign
Finance Reform in the Silver Era: A Puzzle" (part one). Nevada
historical society quarterly 1995 38(3): 133-152. The Purity of
Elections Act of 1895, a Nevada statute designed to remove from elections
the baneful influence of money, particularly the Southern Pacific
Railroad, passed with support from a Silver/Populist coalition of
legislators.
Schlup, Leonard. "Nevada's
Doctrinaire Senator: John P. Jones and the Politics of Silver in the
Gilded Age." Nevada historical society quarterly 1993 36(4):
246-262. During the 1890's, Jones bolted from the Republican Party,
joined the Populists, supported the presidential candidacy of William
Jennings Bryan in 1896. Afterward,
he returned to the Republican Party, although he continued to advocate the
free coinage of silver. Sorg,
Eric V. "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief: The Life of Frank Powell,
Medicine Man." Wyoming History Journal 1995 67(1): 32-47. Following his 1873 graduation from Louisville Medical
College, Powell became an army contract surgeon. Powell, known by the
nickname White Beaver, became associated with forty Western dime novels.
He and "Buffalo Bill" Cody shared a patent medicine business.
During the 1880's and 1890's, Powell served four terms as mayor of La
Crosse, first as a Populist and then as a Republican. Stewart, Ernest D. "The Populist Party in Indiana." Indiana Magazine of History. 14:332‑67, 15:53-74. 1918-1919. Excellent "who's who" in Indiana Populism. Sees Populism as a phase of American radicalism which began with Grangers and was transmitted to the Progressives. Wyman,
Roger E. "Agrarian or Working-Class Radicalism? The Electoral Basis
of Populism in Wisconsin." Political Science Quarterly 1974/75
89(4): 825-848. Wisconsin Populism arose out of socialist-oriented labor
radicalism. Challenges
commonly-held belief that Wisconsin had a long tradition of agrarian
radicalism in the late nineteenth century. |