Was there any struggles between federalist, farmers and others in the democratic party in the 1870s like in the Republican party in 1850s?

[BenkeiDNA]

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing monetary restrictions and granting government support to big business (The Failure of Agrarian Capitalism by Niek Koning) he also writes how Wartime loyalties enabled the new Republican federalists to maintain their hold of nothern farmers for some time, before the Granger movement, the anti-monopoly parties and the rise of tariff-reform agiation when there was a partial return of nothern farmers to the Democratic party.
It was in northeast where Wall street where located and J.P. Morgan and Rocefeller had their powerbase with strong connections to the british elites, and Morgan would invest heavily in politicians who he thought would govern sympathetically to big business and financial institutions, and to fight populism.
My question to you is this,

1. Do you know of any connections between business interests like JP morgan and the federalist elites and the Democratic party around 1870?, did any federalist infiltrate the democratic party and where there any kind of struggles in this way inside of the democratic party during this time?.
2. Do you know of any new republican of the 1850s who had some direct connections to JP morgan or Rockefeller or any other elites and bankers during this time?.

 

[Tonifranz]

First of all, Federalists were dead in the 1860s. Had been since the 1820s at the latest.

Second, the Republican did fulfill those promises to the farmers.. After all, it did fulfill free soil, by excluding slavery in the territories.

And it delivered free land by enacting the Homestead land, and many farmers did gain free land in the west.

Third, I don't think the Republican Party tried to fool anybody about what it is. It never hid that it supported business, as during the war it passed probusiness measures like the Morrill Tariff, etc.

1. Yes, there are business interests that allied to the Democratic Party in the 1870 and yes, there are some direct connections between JP Morgan, Rockefeller and bankers during the 1850s. Though Rockefeller was anti-slavery, so of course he has some connections to Republicans.

BTW, Rockefeller was born in 1839, so he'd be 20 in 1859. I don't think he'd be engaging in politics in the 1850s. Same with Morgan. He was born in the 1837, and would be 23 in 1860.