For the moment I'll retract somewhat from my statement that the Georgists didn't endorse Bryan, and reserve my opinion on the relationship between George and the greenbackers for the moment pending further research. Virtually every claim that George was a greenbacker I have found sources back to Zarlenga, but that doesn't mean he wasn't a greenbacker ipso facto. George did refer sometimes to "greenbackers" in his addresses to drive home certain points about the single tax having a higher priority than financial reform, that I know, which would seem to infer he was something other than a greenbacker. I have found two or three sources that say that George did endorse Bryan that have no obvious link to Zerlenga.
One example:
***] Bryan moved to bring other silverites into his coalition:
fusion of radicals
Populist Party (Tom Watson as VP) National Silver Party Single Taxers of Henry George Rev. W. D. P. Bliss's Christian Socialists "Broad gauge" Prohibitionists [***
Here, the single-taxers are classified by the writer among the "other silverites." No mention here that among the "fusion" were the various greenbacker parties that endorsed Bryan and were prominently and officially in the fusion which is a significant omission, to my mind, that calls into question the degree of scholarship displayed. It is news to me that the Georgists were considered to be "silverites." Even Zarlenga describes George as being a "greenbacker" which is a whole 'nother animal from the populists though they were kindred in spirit. As I have said, I think calling George a "greenbacker" is a stretch. I think it is true that radicals in general were invited to join the "fusion" coalition and that many did so officially.
Note: the correct spelling of granger is without the i.
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