Populist Party

The People's Party, also known as the "Populists", was a short-lived political party on the left in the United States. It was established in 1891 during the Populist movement. It was most influential from 1892 to 1896, and it faded away rapidly after. Based among poor, white cotton farmers in the South (especially North Carolina, Alabama, and Texas) and hard-pressed wheat farmers in the plains states (especially Kansas and Nebraska), it represented a radical crusading form of agrarianism and hostility to banks, cities, railroads, gold, and elites generally. It sometimes formed coalitions with labor unions in the North and with the Republican Party in the South. Its strongest election came in 1894. In 1896 the Populists endorsed the Democratic presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan, but added their own vice presidential nominee. They lost their distinctive identity and faded away. 
== Tossup Questions ==
# During this party's last two presidential elections, it nominated Georgia politician and Ku Klux Klan advocate Thomas E. Watson. Earlier, this party nominated Wharton Barker and Ignatius Donnelly, who had authored the preamble to its (*) Omaha Platform. This party's greatest electoral success came with James B. Weaver, but it came to greater prominence four year later when it supported the "fusion" Democrat and "Cross of Gold" orator Williams Jennings Bryan. For 10 points, name this third party which advocated bimetallism and radical agrarianism.
# After one major defeat, this political party's leadership went to the conservative Georgia senator Tom Watson. The first presidential candidate for this party was James B. Weaver. Ignatius Donnelly wrote the preamble to this party's Omaha Platform, which demanded such reforms as the abolition of banks and free coinage of silver. This party fused with the Democrats in 1896 to support the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan. For 10 points, name this late nineteenth century party of workers and farmers.
# This party's ideology was shaped by the Ocala Demands and codified in the Omaha Platform, developed the year this party ran former Greenbacker James B. Weaver for president. In the election of 1896, it shared a nominee with the Democratic Party; William Jennings Bryan, lost to William McKinley. For 10 points - the Farmer's Alliance helped create what agrarian, anti-elitist party?