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When the Populist Party also nominated him, conservative "Gold Democrats" were alarmed and backed another candidate. The campaign was intense. To Bryan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the Wall Street financial elite was evil; to his opponents, Bryan was equally threatening. He traveled 18,000 miles by railroad and made 500 speeches, but lost to Republican William McKinley, who was backed by big business.
Bryan joined free silver with anti-imperialism as the main issues of the 1900 campaign, in which he opposed President McKinley and lost again. Gradual economic improvement had lessened the appeal of free s
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The Life of William McKinley
The Election of 1900
Election of 1896 Candidates and Issues
That year marked Bryan's debut as a national political figure when, as a little-known former congressman and lawyer, he eloquently expressed agrarian discontent in a time of economic depression, worsened by an appreciating currency linked to gold. He used biblical phrases in his famous speech to arouse the silverites, stirring them to tumult almost beyond the power of restraint.
The movement had a magnetic, simplistic appeal for those suffering from the agricultural depression of the time. Bryan made its rallying cries -- "free silver" and "16 to 1" -- his own. He toured the country and won the hearts of provincial, rural folks who were bewildered by all the changes of modern life.
Bryan, an avowed anti-imperialist, was certain that the people would oppose by referendum any administration that supported annexation. But ultimately, he favored the approval of the Treaty of Paris ending the war, in which Spain ceded Puerto Rico,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Guam, and the Philippines to the United States.
With the outbreak of the Spanish-American War in 1898, Bryan enlisted and served briefly. The chief issue after the war was whether the United States should annex Spain's overseas territories, whether the country should embrace a policy of imperialism, as had the other major, industrial nations.
On this day in history, July 9:
William Jennings Bryan caused a sensation at the Democratic Convention in Chicago in 1896 with his dramatic "Cross of Gold" speech, denouncing supporters of the gold standard and advocating the free coinage of silver amid roars of assent rising and falling like thunder from a tremendous storm.
Anti-Imperialism
Free Silver Movement
In the 1880s and 1890s, farmers, debtors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and silver mine owners advocated an expansion of the amount of money in circulation in the belief that this would bring better times. The supporters of silver coinage urged the federal government to buy large quantities of silver, issue currency based on it, and put 16 times as much of it in a silver dollar as the amount of gold in a gold dollar.
Bryan's address swept the cheering convention delegates off their feet into spasms of enthusiasm for 20 minutes and won him the Democratic Party nomination for president. His hope of carrying every state for free silver was the dream of populists throughout the nation.
Born to a Baptist minister in Illinois in 1860, Bryan graduated college and the Union Law College in Chicago, and practiced law before moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he was elected to Congress in 1890. He became the national leader of the Free Silver Movement in the House of Representatives.
Bryan concluded by declaring: "Having behind us the producing masses of this nation and the world,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], supported by the commercial interests, the laboring interests and the toilers everywhere, we will answer their demand for a gold standard by saying to them: You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."
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