The Democrats began as the party of Western farmers and urban artisans.

Some Western farmers can add to their stock quickly and with little capital investment, dairy economists said.

Western farmers considered it to be both unfair and discriminatory, since they had traditionally converted their excess grain into liquor.

Western farmers who owned small stills did not usually operate them at full capacity, so they ended up paying a higher tax per gallon.

Many Western farmers lose something, too, agricultural economists say.

Last week both houses of Congress voted to exempt agricultural sales from the sanctions, a move made under pressure from Western farmers.

He has 56 acres of land, a tiny amount for a Western farmer but a vast tract here.

Bryan's populism was the politics of an embattled minority, the last cry of Western small farmers.

In that portfolio, Dunning established himself as a friend of the Western farmer.

Such Southern hostility to the free farmers gave the North an opportunity for an alliance with Western farmers.