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People's Party   /pˈipəlz pˈɑrti/   Listen
People's Party

noun
1.
A former political party in the United States; formed in 1891 to advocate currency expansion and state control of railroads.  Synonym: Populist Party.






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"People's Party" Quotes from Famous Books



... Republican member from the Norfolk district. The re-districting of the State brought Thomas and Train into the same district. I was nominated by the Republican Convention, and Thomas then became the candidate of the "People's Party," and at the election he was supported by the Democrats. His course in the Thirty-seventh Congress on the various projects for compromise had alienated many Republicans, and it had brought to him the support of many Democrats. My active radicalism had alienated the conservative ...
— Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 2 • George S. Boutwell

... will, but you can never cut yourself wholly away from the great family of your fellows. You may hide from your responsibilities, but the burden of them will lie heavy upon your conscience, the poison will penetrate sometimes into your most jealously guarded paradise. We are of the people's party, you and I, Mannering, and I tell you that the tocsin has sounded. We ...
— A Lost Leader • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... ballot paper showing the compact put forward by the Swedish People's Party is printed on the opposite page. In one corner of the ballot paper was a blank ...
— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys



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