may 1, 1892 - The Emergence of the Populists

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Attacked Wall Street and the “money trust”
Free coinage of silver struck many populists as the cure; Especially after circulation of William Hope Harvey’s Coin’s Financial School; Mary Elizabeth Lease: queen of Populist calamity howlers; demanded Kansans to raise more hell instead of more corn; became known as “Kansas Pythoness”;

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