The Southern Democrats appealed to Southern farmers that they were paying taxes for black.
The Southern Democrats were able to convince Southern poor white farmers that they were paying taxes for black.
The Southern Democrats told Southern Farmers Organizations like Populists that they will comply to demands such as to :
- to end the adverse effects of the crop-lien system on farmers in the time following American Civil War.
- transportation should be improved in the South
- establishment of income tax to restrict speculative profits
- adoption of an inflationary relaxation of the nation's money supply as a means of easing the burden of repayment of loans by debtors.