The Populist Platform immediately declares their concerns and demands as soon as the reader starts reading the Preamble. The Preamble was written by Ignatius Donnelly, Donnelly was a lawyer, farmer, politician, and a novelist from Minnesota. He doesn’t waste any time in the Preamble and jumps straight to the points. He starts off by stating that, “corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures, the Congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench.” This is how most of the Preamble goes. We then get down to the Platform, where the demands are uncovered. It is demanded that free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to no less than $50 per
