What is People's Party (United States)?
{{Infobox political party | name = People's Party | leader = [[James B. Weaver]]<br>{{nowrap|[[William Jennings Bryan]]}}<br>[[Thomas E. Watson]] | foundation = {{Start date|1891}} |colorcode = #ACE1AF | ideology = [[Populism]]<br>[[Agrarianism]]<br>[[Bimetallism]] | international = | country = United States | dissolution = {{End date|1908}} | merged = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] | position = [[Left-wing politics|Left-wing]] | predecessor = [[Farmers' Alliance]]<br>[[Greenback Party]]<br>[[Labor Party (United States, 19th century)|Union Labor Party]] }} The '''People's Party''' (also known as the '''Populist Party''') was a [[left-wing]] [[political party]] in the [[United States]]. The party wanted [[direct election]] of [[United States Senate|senators]], government ownership of the [[Railroad company|railroads]], [[Telegraphy|telegraph]] and [[telephone|telephone systems]], [[price support]] for farmers, a [[Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|graduated income tax]], unilimited [[silver]] coinage, an 8-hour work day and more [[proposition]]s and [[referendum]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wwnorton.com/college/history/eamerica/media/ch22/resources/documents/populist.htm |title=Primary Source: Populist Party Platform (1892) |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company |access-date=20 October 2017}}</ref> The party was formed in 1891 after a series of conferences involving the leaders of a few [[agrarian]] organizations.<ref>Hild, Matthew (2007). ''Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists, Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South.''The University of Georgia Press, Athens & London, p. 123.</ref> The Populists were very popular among farmers in the [[Southwestern United States|southwest]] and [[Great Plains]]. The party nominated [[James B. Weaver]] as their presidential candidate for the [[United States presidential election, 1892|1892 election]], and he would later receive 8.5% of the p