INDEX 



213 



Omaha, Populist party organ- 

 ized at, 142; Bryan at Demo- 

 cratic convention (1888), 178 



Oregon, and Populist party, 

 151; election of 1896, 191 



Panics, ??e Finance 



Parker, Judge A. B., candidate 

 for Presidency, 194 



Patrons of Husbandry, see 

 Grange movement, National 

 Grange of the Patrons of 

 Husbandry 



Peffer, W. A., 134, 184; Sena- 

 tor from Kansas, 139, 168, 

 170; life, 139-40; Prohibi- 

 tion candidate for Governor 

 of Kansas, 195; becomes Re- 

 publican, 195 



Pendleton, G. H., candidate 

 for Presidency (1868), 155 



Pennsylvania, Greenback party 

 in, 87 



Pcnsacola Address, 149 



People's Independent party in 

 Nebraska, 137 



People's Party, 125 et seq.\ 

 adopts Alliance platform, 

 129; decline of, 191-93; see 

 also Populist party 



Philadelphia and Reading Rail- 

 road Company, failure, 104 



Politics, agricultural clubs in, 

 80-31; Alliances in, 119-21, 

 128, 133-34; see also names 

 of parties 



Pomeroy, M. M., and Green- 

 back Clubs, 86; Brickdust 

 Sketches, 86; Brick Pome- 

 roy's Democrat, 8Q; Hot Drops, 

 86; Meatfor j\Icn,86; quoted, 

 90; radical leader, 93 



Poolville (Tex.), non-partisan 

 alliance organized, 112 



Populist party, organized 

 (1892), 142; platform, 142- 

 144; manifesto Feb. 22, 1895, 

 154; relations to silver ques- 

 tion, 162-63; contest with 



Republicans in Kansas 

 Legislature, 165-68; and 

 Democrats, 188; decline, 195; 

 bibliography, 204-05; see 

 also People's Party 



Prices, decline after Civil War, 

 19; (1883-89), 102; (1891- 

 92), 103-04; rise as result 

 of McKinley Tariff, 133- 

 134; and silver standard, 162 



Producers' Convention in Illi- 

 nois, 47 



Progressive party, 200 



Railroads, and the farmer, 22- 

 23; government aid, 23; 

 legislative reforms in Middle 

 West, 32, 35; state regula- 

 tion, 43 et seq.; distribution 

 of favors, 53; "Granger" 

 laws repealed, 55-56; Na- 

 tional Alliance demands 

 state regulation, 120, 121; 

 government ownership, 129- 

 130., 143; regulation accom- 

 plished, 198 



Ramsey, Alexander, governor 

 of Minnesota, 39, 40 



Reconstruction in South, 12-13 



Referendum favored by Popu- 

 list party, 144 



Reform party, 31 



Republican party, in control in 

 North, 11-12; dissatisfac- 

 tion with, 12, 14, 126, 134, 

 153; Liberal Republican 

 movement, 14 et seq.; nomi- 

 nates Grant (1872), 16; 

 supports new party in Mis- 

 souri, 31; in Illinois (1873), 

 34; attitude on currency 

 question, 79; well estab- 

 lished, 97-98, 125; in 1890, 

 137-38; platform (1892), 

 147; Populists seek control 

 in South, 148-49; election of 

 1892, 150; Weaver on, 151- 

 152; and free silver, 158; 

 in Kansas (1893). 165-67; 



