Ocala Demands
Platform for economic and political reform that was later adopted by the People's Party.
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Ocala, Florida
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".
People's Party (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.
Farmers' movement
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:
James B. Weaver
Member of the United States House of Representatives and two-time candidate for President of the United States.
Alliance members gathered that December in Ocala, Florida, and formulated a platform, later called the Ocala Demands, that called for looser money, government control of the railroads, a graduated income tax, and the direct election of senators.
History of the United States (1865–1918)
The history of the United States from 1865 until 1918 covers the Reconstruction Era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of immigration in the United States.
These were known as the Ocala Demands.
1892 South Carolina gubernatorial election
Held on November 8, 1892 to select the governor of the state of South Carolina.
Tillman had forced the state Democratic party to adopt the entire Ocala Platform in order to avoid a challenge from the Populist Party.