it touched everyone, it was here at the wichita auditorium that loren lorenzo lewelling. >> his rhetoric was that of a war general, kind of leading some troops into battle. he talked about taking down the government that had been in bed with the railroads and he also talked about cooperation with the state's other political party, the democrats and that's really what kind of won him over, or won the people here at the populous convention was the fact this

. >>> lorenzo lewelling was the first populist governor not only of kansas but of the nation. >> what led to the populist movement was a rural versus urban environment. there was the agrarian west where you had the railroads taking the money and the bankers taking the money. the farmers weren't ending up with anything. one of the things that i think makes a pop u list movement is that it touched everybody. it was here at the wichita auditorium that lorenzo lewelling, at that point an unknown gave this talk that so impassed the people he was elected governor. >> his speech was a fiery speech. his rhetoric was that of a war general leading troops into battle. he talked about taking down the prola tear yut government that had been in bed with the railroads. he also talked about cooperation with the state's other political party, the democrats. that's really what kind of won him over, won the people over here at this pop u list convention, was the fact that he was willing to accept this fusion ticket, which would become such a point of contention among the populists in later years. in 189

it was here at the wichita auditorium that lorenzo lewelling, at that point an unknown gave this talk that so impressed the people he was elected governor. >> his speech was a fiery speech. his rhetoric was really towards that of a war general leading troops into battle. he talked about taking down the proletariat government that had been in bed with the railroads. he also talked about cooperation with the state's other political party, the democrats. that's really what kind of won him over, won the people over here at this populist convention, was the fact that he was willing to accept this fusion ticket, which would become such a point of contention among the populists in later years. in 1892, they needed those democratic votes to secure an electoral victory. that's basically what won him this nomination. >> he took office on january >> he took office on january 10th of 1893. almost immediately, there was this power play between the populist and the republican party. neither one was going to yield power. it was up to lewelling to decide what was going to happen. he ends up calling i