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…showed last 75 words of 1594 total…except Alabama and Arkansas. The main reasons for its failure were its inability to accomplish the purposes for which it was founded and the weakening of its strength by groups within it. Despite their defeat, the Greenbackers popularized a number of reform issues that gained national attention at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. The Populist Party soon was to take over the crusade of the farmer and the laborer.