Word: populists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nicest thing anyone can say about a Democratic presidential candidate this year is to call him a populist. Not all the candidates like the appellation. George McGovern-as populist a candidate as there is, left of George Wallace-and Scoop Jackson shun the label. But the rest boast of their populist credentials whenever they can. Wallace plays up his poor-country-boy origins in the Deep South; Humphrey points to his populist record over the years. While he was still in the race, John Lindsay tried to project himself as an "urban populist." Ed Muskie held off for a while...
Muskie also made his first appeal for the newly-discovered "Populist" vote that suddenly seems to be attracting much attention from Democratic candidates...
...This populist verve was abundantly evident in the way Montanans overhauled their creaky, 82-year-old state constitution. That laborious, 28,000-word document had been written-or more precisely, foisted upon the people -largely by mining interests, who hobbled the processes of government while exempting their own properties from taxation. But it was not until 1970 that the heel-dragging legislature, under pressure from reform-minded citizens, called for a new charter. Appropriately, members of that legislature, as well as all other elected Montana officials, were not invited to participate actively. This was to be a people...
Even Break. As finally approved after 54 working days, Montana's new charter is a model document. Despite the individual political differences of the writers, it has a nonpartisan, populist character. Mercifully, it is only 12,000 words long, and it sparkles with flashes of human concern from the beginning: "We the people of Montana, grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life...
...proposals call for reductions or other reforms in local property taxes, an extremely popular goal first proposed by Richard Nixon. But the Democrats have replaced the controversial alternative being considered by the President-the so-called value-added tax, which would result in higher consumer prices-with populist soak-the-rich solutions...