By Stephen Cresswell
A revisionary examine of Mississippi's past due nineteenth-century snapshot as a one-party country of Democrats
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In Mississippi, a Republican or third-party candidate who won 45 percent would be doing very well indeed. S. " But in Mississippi, meaningful comparisons of the strength of the various opposition movements are possible only if we do change the rules of comparison. In Mississippi's one-party system, a dissident party's winning a statewide election was a near impossibility. The carrying of one congressional district in one election was a signal achievement. The carrying of one or more counties became an important indication of success for a given party, even if success was confined to the local level.
Chapter 2 explores the history of the state's Greenback party, which flourished as it supported agrarian politics and benefited from the absence of any credible Republican opposition. The chapter will assess who the Greenbackers were, what they accomplished, and why they were not able to win statewide elections. Chapter 3 examines the response of the Greenback party to a Republican resurgence. The chapter examines the startling strength the opposition parties developed in the 1882 elections, but once again appraises the failure of Greenbackers, Republicans, and Independents by the end of the 1880s.
The situation was all the more maddening when farmers remembered that these railroads had been built with aid from the state government; in other words, their tax dollars had been used to help build a hated system. While agrarians did call for railroad regulation, the railroads had a strong influence in the Mississippi legislature. Railroads had placed a number of key legislators on a general retainer, while free passes were distributed to other members. In these days before good roads, when railroads were the chief means of travel between towns, distributing a free pass on the railroads was arguably analogous to giving a legislator a free automobile in modern times.
