Populist+Party+Timeline


 * || ﻿The Populist Party Timeline ||
 * 1892 || The Populist Party was created. ||
 * 1892 || The populist party candidate, James B. Weaver, won over one million votes in the presidential campaign. ||
 * 1894 || In mid-term elections, the Populist Party candidate won about 1,400,000 votes. ||
 * 1896 || Two groups come from the populist party. The fusionists (people who want the populist party to mix with the democratic party) and the mid-roaders (people who wanted the populist party to stay a seperate party) were the two groups. ||
 * July 24-26, 1896 || The Populist Convention was held this year in St.Louis. It was between the mid-roaders and the fusionists and they were supposed to decide who the presidential candidate would be. In the end, the fustionists won choosing Williams Jennings Bryan as the candidate for the populist party as well as the democrat party. ||
 * 1896 || It appeared that Williams Jennings Bryan cared more for the democrats than the populist party. ||
 * 1896 || Williams Jennings Bryan loses the presidential campaign which demoralized the fusionists as well as the mid-roaders. ||
 * 1904 || Tom Watson ran as the candidate for the populist party but was not successful because he won only 117,183. ||

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