Anti-Monopoly Party
The Anti-Monopoly Party (Engl. For anti- monopoly -party) was a political party in the United States , which was active in the 1870s and 1880s in several states. At the federal level it was founded on May 14, 1884 in Chicago .
Before this Chicago Convention, there were anti-Monopoly parties operating at the state level, particularly in California and New York . Their platforms were similar to those of other parties that were classified as progressive . The party called for the direct election of the senators , a progressive income tax , rights for trade unions and tightening of the antitrust law (especially monopoly bans).
The former general of the Union Army and governor of Massachusetts , Benjamin Franklin Butler , was a presidential candidate for the elections of 1884 nominated. Like the United States Greenback Party , the AMP voted in favor of Butler. Both parties nominated Absolom M. West of Mississippi for the office of vice president . Butler received 175,370 votes in the election, with the Anti-Monopoly Party not last long after the election. Many of the two parties' demands were later implemented.
Elected representatives
One member of the Anti-Monopoly Party was elected to the US Senate and one to the United States House of Representatives :
- Newton Booth , Senator from California . He sat in the 44th, 45th and 46th US Congresses (1875–1881).
- Benjamin F. Shively , a member of Indiana's 13th Congressional constituency, served in the 48th Congress between March 4, 1883 and March 3, 1885.