antisemitism and populism

[Max Sawicky]

"Did Jefferson dream that in 100 years or less >his< party would be
prostituted to the vilest purposes of monopoly; that red-eyed Jewish
millionaires would be chiefs of that Party, and that the liberty and
prosperity of the country would be..constantly and corruptly sacrificed
to Plutocratic greed in the name of Jeffersonian Democracy?"
--Tom Watson, l892, from the People's Party Campaign Book,quoted in
Kazin, The Populist Persuasion, p.10.

Kazin notes that Watson only became a major Antisemite after the
People's Party failed. Before that, I guess he was a minor antisemite.
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mbs:
See C. Vann Woodward's classic bio.  In his better,
earlier days Watson was a model of democratic insurgency
in a very difficult place for such roles.