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Arkansas | Back to Bibliography | Home | Barjenbruch, Judith. "The Greenback Political Movement: An Arkansas View." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1977 36(2): 107-122. The Greenback Party often replaced the Republican Party by briefly allying itself with the Democrats. Its greatest appeal in Arkansas was to agrarian radicals. American History and Life, 16A:2313
Bayliss, Garland E. "Public Affairs in
Arkansas, 1874-1896." Ph.D. dissertation, U of Texas, Austin,
August 1972. 358 p. Elkins, F. Clark. "The Agricultural Wheel: County Politics and Consolidation, 1884-1885." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1970 29(2): 152-175. Two organized farm groups, the Agricultural Wheel and the Brothers of Freedom, actively participated in the elections of 1884. They had substantial success in seven of the 11 counties in which they yielded candidates. Similarity of political goals and of social and educational interests of the two groups led to a merger in 1885. America: History and Life, 9:850
_____. "The Agricultural Wheel in Arkansas,
1882-1890." Ph.D. dissertation, Syracuse U, 1953. _____. "The Agriculture Wheel in Arkansas, 1887." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1981 40(3): 249-260. Details the demands of the state and national wheel organizations, and the circumstances of their 1887 meetings. The Wheel merged with the Southern Farmers' Alliance in 1889. America: History and Life, 19A:9051
_____. "Arkansas Farmers
Organized for
Action, 1882-1884." Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 13:
231‑48. Autumn 1954. _____. "State Politics and the Agricultural Wheel." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1979 38(3): 248-258. The Agricultural Wheel movement was founded by disaffected farmers in 1882. It spread rapidly across the state and was involved unsuccessfully in the state election of 1886. America: History and Life, 17A:8407
Henningson, Berton E., Jr. "Northwest
Arkansas and the Brothers of Freedom: the Roots of a Farmer
Movement." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1975 34(4): 304-324.
A class-oriented, anticapitalist movement of 40,000 raised farmers'
hopes by instilling confidence, calling for frugality, contracting with
local merchants for supplies at lower prices, and entering politics. In
1885 it merged with the Agricultural Wheel.
Holmes, William F. "The Arkansas Cotton
Pickers Strike of 1891 and the Demise of the Colored Farmers'
Alliance." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 32(2): 107-119. 1973.
Howard, James E. "Populism in
Arkansas." M. A. thesis, George Peabody College, 1931.
The University of Arkansas Library has a copy.
Ledbetter, Calvin R., Jr. "Adoption of
Initiative and Referendum in Arkansas: The Roles of George W. Donaghy and
William Jennings Bryan." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 1992
51(3): 199-223. Although
initially endorsed by Arkansas Populists in 1896, additional support came
from the State Federation of Labor in 1904, the Farmer's Union, the
Democratic Party, and Governor George W. Donaghy.
William Jennings Bryan blitzed the state in a pro-amendment tour
funded by Donaghy.
Moneyhon, Carl H. "Black Politics in
Arkansas During the Gilded Age, 1876-1900." Arkansas Historical
Quarterly. 44(3):222-45. 1985. Some
on fusion.
Niswonger, Richard Leverne. "Arkansas
Democratic Politics, 1896-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, University of
Texas at Austin, 1974. DAI
1974 35(1):377-A.
_____. "Arkansas and the Election of 1896." Arkansas
Historical Quarterly 1975 34(1): 41-78.
Arkansans joined other Southern and Western states against
President Cleveland and for free silver.
Silverite Daniel Jones gained the party's gubernatorial nomination
in 1896, and conservative bimetallite Senator James K. Jones played
significant roles at the Democratic and Populist national conventions,
which nominated William Jennings Bryan for president.
Paisley, Clifton. "The Political Wheelers
and Arkansas' Election of 1888." Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Spring 1966 25(1): 3-21. Arkansas
farmers founded the Agricultural Wheel in 1882.
The National Union Labor Party adopted their demands in 1888.
Democrats defeated the ULP 99,123 to 81,213 in November.
This threat encouraged Democrats like Jefferson Davis to adopt the
language of the agrarians.
Saloutos, Theodore. "The Agricultural Wheel
in Arkansas." Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 2:127-40.
June 1943.
Seagraves, Joe Tolbert. "Arkansas Politics,
1874-1918." 434 p. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Kentucky, 1973.
DAI 1974 34(10): 6576-A.
Wheeler, John McDaniel. "The People's Party
in Arkansas, 1891-1896." Ph.D. dissertation, Tulane University, 1975.
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