The collection contains information on campaigns, party finances, newspapers and literature, conventions, speakers, organizations, and personal affairs. Papers from his Congressional term discuss currency questions, pension claims, vote fraud, and appointments. Also included is correspondence on the career of James B. Weaver, Greenback-Labor presidential candidate in 1892, and exchanges with prominent Populist Ignatius Donnelly and with Robert Schilling of Milwaukee.
Other correspondents include E.W. Clark of Postville, Iowa; W.R. Mead of Creco, Iowa; and L.G. Kinne of the Iowa Democratic State Central Committee; S.L. Douglas of the Industrial Union; attorney Henry Wilcox of Des Moines, Iowa; and B.F. Clayton, J.H. McDowell, and J.H. Sanders in the 1890s mentioning the Farmer's Alliance.
