As part of the Omaha Platform, the People's Party demanded that there was a reduction in the working day, a "safe, sound and flexible" national currency, assistance to farmers with the financing of their labors, fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors, the direct election of Senators and single terms for presidents and vice-presidents. This also included initiatives and referendums, a secret ballot system, the nationalization of railroads, the telegraph and the telephone systems, postal savings, "graduated income tax" and "the free and unlimited coinage of silver."