INDEX 



Middlemen, farmers' relations 

 with, 63-64, 71 



Minnesota, Kelley in, 2, 6; 

 Grange movement in, 8-9, 

 25, 30; railroad regulation, 

 45, 46-47, 49-50, 55; Alli- 

 ance grain elevators in, 119; 

 election of 1890, 138; Popu- 

 list party in, 150; press 

 comment on Populist party, 

 152; election of 1896, 191; 

 Non-Partisan League in, 198 



Minnesota State Alliance, po- 

 litical aims, 120 



Mississippi, Grange organiza- 

 tion, 25 



Missouri, Democracy in, 31; 

 Liberal Republican party in, 

 31; Grange plans implement 

 factory, 70; Grange relief 

 sent to, 75; Union Labor 

 party in, 127; Populist party 

 in, 150; fusion of parties 

 (1896), 188 



Murdock, Victor, 136 



Nation quoted, 16 



National Agricultural Wheel, 

 117 



National Farmers' Alliance, 

 118; resolutions (1887), 121; 

 see also Northwestern Alli- 

 ance 



National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Cooperative Union of 

 America, 115 



National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Industrial Union, 122 



National Grange of the Pa- 

 trons of Husbandry, organi- 

 zation, 4; motto, 4; "De- 

 claration of Purposes of the 

 National Grange," 28; ob- 

 jections to, 29; farmers' 

 attitude toward, 62; see 

 also Grange movement 



National Greenback party, 82; 

 see also Greenback Labor 

 party 



National Labor party, 80 



National Labor Union, 79, 80 



National party, name adopted 

 at Toledo convention, 89; 

 campaign of 1880, 93-95; 

 in later elections, 96-97; 

 convention at Indianapolis 

 (1884), 96-97; see also Green- 

 back Labor party 



Nebraska, election of 1890, 

 137-38; Populist, 150; elec- 

 tion of 1894, 168 



Negroes, excluded from Farm- 

 ers' Alliance, 113, 122; sepa- 

 rate lodges for, 117 (note); 

 Colored Farmers' Alliance, 

 123 



Nevada, Populist success in, 

 149; election of 1894, 168 



Newton (Iowa), Grange estab- 

 lished at, 8 



Non- Partisan League, 198 



North Carolina, Alliance forms 

 Democratic platform (1890), 

 133; fusion of parties (1896), 

 188 



North Dakota, Alliance grain 

 elevators in, 119; Populist 

 success in, 149; Republican 

 in 1894, 168; election of 

 1896, 191; Non-Partisan 

 League, 198 



Northwestern Alliance, foun- 

 dation, 118; platform, 119, 

 131; meets with Southern 

 Alliance, 122; decline, 124; 

 quotation from speech at 

 meeting, 126; see also Na- 

 tional Farmers' Alliance 



Norton, S. F., at Populist con- 

 vention (1896), 186 



Ocala (Fla.), meeting of South- 

 ern Alliance at (1890), 123 

 O'Conor, Charles, 51 

 Ohio, drought in (1895), 105 

 "Ohio idea," 155 

 Oklahoma, Weaver and open- 

 | ing of, 93 



