... the farmers attempted to use their new organizations as a means of eliminating the one and controlling the other As in the parallel case of the railroads, the farmers' animosity, though it was ... one-third in the East That the movement, even in the East, was largely agrarian, is indicated by the famous argument of Solon Chase, chairman of the party convention in Maine "Inflate the currency, and ... membership of about 400,000 It was evident that the organization of the farmers of the cotton belt was rapidly being consummated As the Alliance spread into Arkansas and some of the adjoining States,...