M.
McDowell, F. M., Grange founder, [4].
McKinley, William, candidate for Presidency (1896), [173]-[175]; campaign, [189]; election, [190]-[191]; Peffer supports, [195].
Macune, C. W., and Texas Alliance, [115]; president of National Farmers' Alliance, [115]-[116]; quoted, [128]-[129]; chairman of monetary committee, [130].
Manufacturers, farmers' relations with, [64]-[65], [71].
Manufacturing, Grange activities, [68]-[70].
Martin, John, and silver, [168].
Meridian (Miss.), joint conference of agricultural orders at, [117].
Michigan, Greenback movement in, [87]; drought (1895), [105]; election of 1890, [138].
Middlemen, farmers' relations with, [63]-[64], [71].
Minnesota, Kelley in, [2], [6]; Grange movement in, [8]-[9], [25], [30]; railroad regulation, [45], [46]-[47], [49]-[50], [55]; Alliance grain elevators in, [119]; election of 1890, [138]; Populist party in, [150]; press comment on Populist party, [152]; election of 1896, [191]; Non-Partisan League in, [198].
Minnesota State Alliance, political aims, [120].
Mississippi, Grange organization, [25].
Missouri, Democracy in, [31]; Liberal Republican party in, [31]; Grange plans implement factory, [70]; Grange relief sent to, [75]; Union Labor party in, [127]; Populist party in, [150]; fusion of parties (1896), [188].
Murdock, Victor, [136].
N.
Nation quoted, [16].
National Agricultural Wheel, [117].
National Farmers' Alliance, [118]; resolutions (1887), [121]; see also [Northwestern Alliance].
National Farmers' Alliance and Coöperative Union of America, [115].
National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, [122].
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, organization, [4]; motto, [4]; "Declaration of Purposes of the National Grange," [28]; objections to, [29]; farmers' attitude toward, [62]; see also [Grange movement].
National Greenback party, [82]; see also [Greenback Labor party].
National Labor party, [80].
National Labor Union, [79], [80].
National party, name adopted at Toledo convention, [89]; campaign of 1880, [93]-[95]; in later elections, [96]-[97]; convention at Indianapolis (1884), [96]-[97]; see also [Greenback Labor party].
Nebraska, election of 1890, [137]-[138]; Populist, [150]; election of 1894, [168].
Negroes, excluded from Farmers' Alliance, [113], [122]; separate lodges for, [117 (note)]; Colored Farmers' Alliance, [123].
Nevada, Populist success in, [149]; election of 1894, [168].
Newton (Iowa), Grange established at, [8].
Non-Partisan League, [198].
North Carolina, Alliance forms Democratic platform (1890), [133]; fusion of parties (1896), [188].
North Dakota, Alliance grain elevators in, [119]; Populist success in, [149]; Republican in 1894, [168]; election of 1896, [191]; Non-Partisan League, [198].
Northwestern Alliance, foundation, [118]; platform, [119], [131]; meets with Southern Alliance, [122]; decline, [124]; quotation from speech at meeting, [126]; see also [National Farmers' Alliance].
Norton, S. F., at Populist convention (1896), [186].
O.
Ocala (Fla.), meeting of Southern Alliance at (1890), [123].
O'Conor, Charles, [51].
Ohio, drought in (1895), [105].
"Ohio idea," [155].
Oklahoma, Weaver and opening of, [93].
Omaha, Populist party organized at, [142]; Bryan at Democratic convention (1888), [178].
Oregon, and Populist party, [151]; election of 1896, [191].
P.
Panics, see [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]; Senator from Kansas, [139], [168], [170]; life, [139]-[140]; Prohibition candidate for Governor of Kansas, [195]; becomes Republican, [195].
Pendleton, G. H., candidate for Presidency (1868), [155].
Pennsylvania, Greenback party in, [87].
Pensacola Address, [149].
People's Independent party in Nebraska, [137].
People's Party, [125] et seq.; adopts Alliance platform, [129]; decline of, [191]-[193]; see also [Populist party].
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Company, failure, [104].
Politics, agricultural clubs in, [30]-[31]; Alliances in, [119]-[121], [128], [133]-[134]; see also names of parties.
Pomeroy, M. M., and Greenback Clubs, [86]; Brickdust Sketches, [86]; Brick Pomeroy's Democrat, [86]; Hot Drops, [86]; Meat for Men, [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 question, [162]-[163]; contest with Republicans in Kansas Legislature, [165]-[168]; and Democrats, [188]; decline, [195]; bibliography, [204]-[205]; see also [People's Party].
Prices, decline after Civil War, [19]; (1883-89), [102]; (1891-92), [103]-[104]; rise as result of McKinley Tariff, [133]-[134]; and silver standard, [162].
Producers' Convention in Illinois, [47].
Progressive party, [200].
R.
Railroads, and the farmer, [22]-[23]; government aid, [23]; legislative reforms in Middle West, [32], [35]; state regulation, [43] et seq.; distribution of favors, [53]; "Granger" laws repealed, [55]-[56]; National Alliance demands state regulation, [120], [121]; government ownership, [129]-[130], [143]; regulation accomplished, [198].
Ramsey, Alexander, governor of Minnesota, [39], [40].
Reconstruction in South, [12]-[13].
Referendum favored by Populist party, [144].
Reform party, [31].
Republican party, in control in North, [11]-[12]; dissatisfaction with, [12], [14], [126], [134], [153]; Liberal Republican movement, [14] et seq.; nominates Grant (1872), [16]; supports new party in Missouri, [31]; in Illinois (1873), [34]; attitude on currency question, [79]; well established, [97]-[98], [125]; in 1890, [137]-[138]; platform (1892), [147]; Populists seek control in South, [148]-[149]; election of 1892, [150]; Weaver on, [151]-[152]; and free silver, [158]; in Kansas (1893), [165]-[167]; success in West (1894), [168]; convention at St. Louis (1896), [172]-[175]; Hanna and, [173]-[174]; 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].