What candidate did populists endorse in the 1896 presidential election quizlet?

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(1880s) By the end of Rutherford Hayes' presidencies two groups were competing for control of the Republican party.
• Roscoe Conkling's (New York) Stalwarts, supporters of traditional machine politics, and U.S. Senator James G. Blaine's (Maine) Half-Breeds, who favored reform. In reality, little separated the two groups. Both were primarily interested in a bigger piece of the patronage pie.
• In 1880 the Stalwarts wanted to nominate former President Grant for a third term, while the Half-Breeds supported Blaine. The two factions were so evenly matched that neither candidate could gain the necessary majority. As a compromise, the party agreed on Senator James A. Garfield of Ohio, a Half-Breed. To gain the support of Conkling and his Stalwarts, the convention chose Chester Arthur, a Stalwart, as the vice-presidential candidate.
• Garfield tried to defy the Stalwarts on appointments and was soon in a public dispute with Conkling and other Stalwarts. His assassination ended the quarrel. The Stalwarts were astounded when Arthur, an ally of Conkling, followed his own course and even promoted reform.
• The political struggle between the two groups was typical of the period because it was over who would get the bigger share of political patronage.

(Populists) (1900s) The late-nineteenth-century political movement of farmers, most notably in the West and South, that identified laissez-faire capitalism (in which the government had limited involvement) and big business as responsible for the worsening economic circumstances in rural America.
• In 1892, the People's (or Populist) Party captured a million votes and carried four western states, representing the first agrarian protest to truly challenge the entrenched two-party system. In their Omaha platform, they called for free coinage of silver and paper money, a national income tax, a direct election of senators, regulation of railroads, and other government reforms to help farmers.
• In 1896 the Populists gambled on endorsing the Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan since he endorsed the important issue of free silver. By doing so the Populists sacrificed their independent party identity which they never effectively regained even though Bryan lost the election.
• Many of the Populist ideas were later adopted by the Progressive Party.
• Although ultimately unsuccessful, the Populists were the most successive third party and reform movement up to that point in American history.

(Populists) Lease was a writer, lecturer, and political activist. Most of her work was in support of temperance, but after she and her husband failed at farming ventures, she got involved in the Populist Party.
• She advised Kansas farmers to "raise less corn and more hell."
• Lease argued "Wall street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master."
Lease was renowned for her oratorical skills. She was more an agitator than a politician and by 1896 was alienated from the Populist Party and spent her time on personal interests

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