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more, and with greater unanimity than ever before, 

 the farmers, especially in the West, threw aside 

 their old party allegiance to fight for the things 

 which they deemed not only essential to their own 

 welfare but beneficial to the whole country. Some 

 aid, it is true, was brought by labor, some by the 

 mining communities of the mountain region, some 

 by various ref orm organizations ; but the movement 

 as a whole was distinctly and essentially agrarian, 



