Word: workdayã
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...send a message” to incumbent parties rather than to win the presidency outright, this was a significant victory. A hundred years earlier, the Populist Party—which was the first to advocate a graduated income tax, direct election of Senators, and the eight-hour workday??won almost 10 percent of the vote in the 1892 election. The Democrats were so shocked that in 1896 they claimed the former Populist candidate, William Jennings Bryan, for their own, after adopting the party’s most attractive planks. The Republicans, who won that election, ultimately enacted many...
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