A report on Ocala Demands
Platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.
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People's Party (United States)
0 linksLeft-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States.
Left-wing agrarian populist late-19th-century political party in the United States.
The Ocala Demands laid out the Populist platform: collective bargaining, federal regulation of railroad rates, an expansionary monetary policy, and a Sub-Treasury Plan that required the establishment of federally controlled warehouses to aid farmers.
Ocala, Florida
0 linksCity in and the county seat of Marion County within the northern region of Florida, United States.
City in and the county seat of Marion County within the northern region of Florida, United States.
At the convention, the Alliance adopted a platform that would become known as the "Ocala Demands".
Farmers' movement
0 linksThe farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896.
The farmers' movement was, in American political history, the general name for a movement between 1867 and 1896.
Thus, the Southern Alliance in 1890 (the chief platforms were the one at Ocala, Florida, and that of 1889 at St Louis, Missouri, in conjunction with the Knights of Labor) declared its principles to be: