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INDEX 



Republican party Continued 

 success in West (1894), 168; 

 convention at St. Louis 

 (1896), 172-75; Hanna and, 

 173-74; gold standard, 174; 

 campaign of 1896, 189 



Resumption Act, see Finance 



Review of Reviews on Populist 

 party, 199 (note) 



Robertson, Colonel D. A., and 

 Grange organization, 8 



Roosevelt, Theodore, 195 



St. Louis, seventh annual 

 session of National Grange 

 at, 28; Greenback conven- 

 tion (1880), 93; joint meet- 

 ing of agricultural alliances 

 (1889), 122, 129; Republi- 

 can convention (1896), 172; 

 Populist convention (1896), 

 182 



St. Paul, North Star Grange 

 established at, 8 



Saunders, William, Grange 

 founder, 4, 27 



Schurz, Carl, and Liberal-Re- 

 publican movement, 14; and 

 civil service reform, 15; and 

 radical movements, 19 



Sewall, Arthur, candidate for 

 Vice- President, 185, 188 



Shankland, E. R., of Iowa, 27 



Sherman, John, Secretary of 

 Treasury, 159 (note) 



Silver, platform of National 

 party on coinage of, 89, 90; 

 agrarian demand for free, 

 110, 120, 121, 132; People's 

 Party platform and free, 129; 

 Silver Purchase Act, 132, 

 159-60, 165; party platforms 

 on, 146-47; as issue, 154 et 

 seq.; Bland- Allison act, 158, 

 159, 160, 173; free coinage 

 and the parties (1895), 169; 

 Bryan and, 179, 180-81 



Si mpson, ' ' Sockless ' ' Jerry, 

 134, 136-37, 167 



Sloan, A. S., of Wisconsin, 18 



South, Kelley's trip to, 1, 2-3; 

 reconstruction, 12-13; op- 

 position to Grange move- 

 ment, 26; development of 

 farmers' alliances in, 112- 

 117; Populist campaign in, 

 147, 148-49; elections of 

 1894, 168; Populists and Re- 

 publicans in, 170; Democra- 

 tic (1896), 191 



South Carolina, Grange or- 

 ganization, 25; Grange relief 

 sent to, 75; Alliance forms 

 Democratic platform (1890), 

 133; Democratic in 1894, 169 



South Dakota, election of 1890, 

 138; Independent party, 138; 

 Populist party in, 150 



Southern Alliance, decline of, 

 123-24; in politics, 1?8; see 

 also Farmers' and Laborers' 

 Union of America, National 

 Farmers' Alliance and Co- 

 operative Union of America, 

 National Farmers' Alliance 

 and Industrial Union, Texas 

 Alliance 



Sovereign, J. R., in Coin's 

 Financial School, 161 



Spectator (London), quotation 

 from, 99 



Streeter, A. J., Union Labor 

 candidate for President, 127, 

 128 



Supreme Court, Dartmouth 

 College case, 46; and rail- 

 road laws, 54; "Granger 

 cases," 56-57; Munn vs. 

 Illinois, 57; Olcott vs. The 

 Supervisors, cited, 58 (note); 

 and Minnesota rate regula- 

 tion, 59 



Tariff, Liberal-Republican 

 party on, 15; hardship for 

 farmers, 20; demand for re- 

 form, 35, 132; McKinley 

 134 



