== Gouverneur von South Carolina ==Im Jahr 1890 besaß Benjamin Tillman genügend Macht und Einfluss, um sich die Nominierung der Demokratischen Partei für das Amt des Gouverneurs zu sichern. ###>Although the Populist Party played a significant role in the politics of the 1890s, it did not do so in South Carolina, where Tillman had already channeled agricultural discontent into an attempt to take over the Democratic Party.