Without too great disregard of the reticence concerning the living which I promised myself, I may mention Dr. Edward Everett Hale and Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson as prominent authors who encouraged the Nationalist movement eventuating in populism, though they were never Populists.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
In 1896, when the Democratic party made its surrender to populism and wild-eyed socialism by nominating Bryan, I was at the convention in Chicago, telegraphing editorial articles.
"Recollections of a Varied Life"
George Cary Eggleston
It remained to be seen whether the victors would attempt to study and meet the complaints of the farmer and the wage earner; whether the new Republican leaders would be able to preserve the laissez faire attitude toward the railroads and the corporations; and whether the forces of dissent represented in populism and radical Democracy had received a death blow or only a rebuff.
"The United States Since The Civil War"
Charles Ramsdell Lingley