Populist party

Cultural  

1. A third-party movement that sprang up in the 1890s and drew support especially from disgruntled farmers. The Populists were particularly known for advocating the unlimited coinage of silver. The party endorsed William Jennings Bryan, a champion of free silver, in the presidential election of 1896.

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Example Sentences

Those echoes have powerful appeal around here, too, not far from where the Populist party convened with William Jennings Bryan in Omaha just before the turn of the 20th century.

From The Guardian • Sep. 24, 2019

After briefly threatening to upend America’s two-party system, the Populist party collapsed after selecting the Democratic nominee for president, William Jennings Bryan, who lost in 1896.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2019

His grandfather, "Uncle Tommy" Meredith, ran a newspaper in Des Moines, The Farmers' Tribune, which cheered for the defunct Populist party.

From Time Magazine Archive

Watching the straws in the wind, she saw Republican supremacy seriously threatened by the new Populist party.

From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma

The fusion of 1896 and the rising prices of agricultural products killed the Populist party in the South, but the influence of the movement remains to this day.

From The New South A Chronicle of Social and Industrial Evolution by Thompson, Holland