Republican -- Democrat -- Populist -- Socialist -- Green Back -- Independent -- Independent-Republican -- Prohibition and Bull Moose.
In 1894 the Populists had forty-two members in Norway Township. This party was made up of members from all the parties existing at that time. Its platform was "Control of Interest and Freight Rates, Election of Senators by Direct Vote and Woman's Sufferage."
This party was bitterly opposed by many, and its leaders were denounced as anarchists and turncoats. Over two hundred Union soldiers were considered unpatriotic for having left the party that had saved the Union.
In an article by Editor Tabor of the "Topeka Capital" of June 27, 1889 referring to a convention of 500 Populist delegates in 1884, he says, "The Populist Party was a victorious party, then its undoing was caused by strife among its members."
The Republican party was returned to power and passed most of the important laws advocated by the Populists. Not many of their ideas have been discarded. Carrie Nation was not a "party" but once her ideals were adopted by the Nation, although they were later rejected.
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