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  1. (title page) People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898. State Executive Committee of the People's Party of North Carolina. 96 p. Raleigh, N. C. Capital Printing Company, Printers and Binders 1898 Call number C329 P42 1898 c.4 (North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

  2. During the 1890s, a national phenomenon called Fusion politics united political parties. In some western states the Populist (or People’s Party) and the Democratic Party united, but in North Carolina the movement, spearheaded by agricultural leader Marion Butler (1863-1938), combined the Populist and Republican parties.

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  4. The "alliancemen" were active supporters of the new People's Party, also known as the Populist Party, led nationally by North Carolinian Leonidas LaFayette Polk. The Populists ran several candidates in the 1892 election in North Carolina and the results were surprising.

  5. hide. (Top) Origins. Third party antecedents. Farmer's Alliance. Formation. 1892 election. Between presidential elections, 1893–1895. Populist-Republican fusion in North Carolina. Women and African Americans. Conspiratorial tendencies. Presidential election of 1896. Collapse. Legacy. Debate by historians. Influence on later movements.

  6. The origin of the so-called Fusion was the rise of the People's Party, or Populist Party, after years of economic depression and hardship had motivated small farmers, who suffered the most, to take political action.

  7. Apr 11, 2012 · The People's Party is and has always been more distinctly than any other party in North Carolina a white man's party, and is more anxious than any other party to solve the race problem, and to force all parties to a discussion of the great economic issues so vitally affecting the welfare of all wealth producers, of the State and nation, and ...

  8. In early 1892, Alliance leaders in North Carolina began to organize the Populist Party (also known as the People‟s Party). Polk supported the move and redesigned his Progressive Farmer as the state

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