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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN : " A Cross of Gold " In 1896 , western delegates who favored the free coinage of silver captured control of the Democratic national convention held in Chicago . Many of these “ silver Democrats ” had been ...
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN : " A Cross of Gold " In 1896 , western delegates who favored the free coinage of silver captured control of the Democratic national convention held in Chicago . Many of these “ silver Democrats ” had been ...
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You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies . Burn down your cities and leave our farms , and your cities will spring up ...
You come to us and tell us that the great cities are in favor of the gold standard ; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile prairies . Burn down your cities and leave our farms , and your cities will spring up ...
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... the People's Party , declared : “ As early as 1865–66 a conspiracy was entered into between the gold gamblers of Europe and America . . . . For nearly thirty years these conspirators have kept the people quarreling over less ...
... the People's Party , declared : “ As early as 1865–66 a conspiracy was entered into between the gold gamblers of Europe and America . . . . For nearly thirty years these conspirators have kept the people quarreling over less ...
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Populist Ideology | 7 |
A Cross of Gold | 23 |
Utopian Conceptions | 29 |
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