In 1892, the Populists' People's Party ran James Baird Weaver as their Presidential candidate. That same year, Weaver published "A Call to Action," which offered a cogent indictment of the rise of the Corporate State in place of the recently dismantled Slave State in America. You can read a sampling from Weaver's book by clicking on the links, below.

James Baird Weaver was born in Dayton, Ohio, June 12, 1833; moved with his parents to Michigan in 1835 and subsequently moved to Iowa and settled on a farm near Bloomfield. He attended the common schools; studied law at Bloomfield 1853-1856 and graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in April 1856, then was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in Bloomfield. He enlisted as a private in the Second Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry, in April 1861 and was commissioned first lieutenant of Company G May 27, 1861; major July 25, 1862; colonel November 10, 1862; brevetted brigadier general of Volunteers March 13, 1864. Weaver was mustered out May 27, 1864; elected district attorney for the second judicial district of Iowa in 1866 and served four years, then was appointed assessor of internal revenue for the first district of Iowa by President Johnson March 25, 1867, and served until May 20, 1873.

He was elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881); was not a candidate for renomination in 1880, but was nominated at Chicago in 1880 by the National Greenback Party as their candidate for President of the United States. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the Forty-eighth Congress in 1882; elected to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1889); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior (Forty-ninth Congress), Committee on Patents (Fiftieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress.

In 1892 Weaver was the Populist candidate for President, the year he published his book A Call To Action. Excerpts from Chapter VI, entitled "Evolution In Crime, or Improved Methods of Piracy"  in which Weaver spells out the un-democratic origins and nature of corporations in America can be read here:

James B Weaver, On Corporate Piracy, Part A

James B Weaver, On Corporate Piracy, Part B

James B Weaver, On Corporate Piracy, Part C

After his unsuccessful run for President in 1892, Weaver was elected mayor of Colfax, Iowa, 1901-1903. He died in Des Moines, Iowa, February 6, 1912.

"Our government has chartered thousands of corporations, turned them loose upon us and now permits them to commit from year to year... outrages upon our people. These charters are neither more nor less than letters of marque, authorizing those who hold them to prey upon the commerce of the country, and they are the forerunners of something still more serious if they be not speedily recalled and the evils they entail quickly remedied...The object had inview by the incorporators, in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred, is to shirk personal responsibility in case of loss...These enterprises are made up of expectation and apprehension. If expectations are realized, corporators flourish; if apprehensions are verified, the misfortune is unloaded upon the people. Could anything be more monstrous?" -- James Baird Weaver, 1892, p. 268.