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Bryan's address helped catapult him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination ; it is considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history.
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Bryan's speeches evolved over time ; in December 1894, in a speech in Congress, he first used a phrase from which would come the conclusion to his most famous address: as originally stated, it was " I will not help to crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
However, the senator wanted 50 minutes to speak, too long for a closing address, and at Bryan's request agreed to open the debate instead.
Tillman's speech, scheduled to be the only one in support of silver except Bryan's, was so badly received that Senator Jones, who had not planned to speak, gave a brief address asserting that silver was a national issue.
" The gold men, during the address, paid close attention and showed their appreciation for Bryan's oratory.
Bensel ties the delegates ' response to Bryan's address to their uncertainty in their own beliefs:
Bryan's and helped
Bryan's emphasis on agrarian issues, both in his speech and in his candidacy, may have helped cement voting patterns which kept the Democrats largely out of power until the 1930s.
Weaver had believed that he had struck a deal with Bryan that Tom Watson, who had helped found the Populist Party with Weaver, would be Bryan's running mate.
Clarke's political evolution during this period was facilitated considerably by his friendship with Cleveland mayor Tom L. Johnson, who helped restore Clarke's standing within the state party after Clarke's previous failure to support Bryan's presidential bid.
Bryan's and him
Albert Shaw, editor of The Review of Reviews, stated that after Bryan's nomination, many easterners professed not to have heard of him but: " If, indeed, they had not heard of Mr. Bryan before, they had failed to follow closely the course of American politics in the past eight years.
Bryan's lecture tours had left him a well-known spokesman for silver.
Bryan's opening claimed no personal prestige for himself — but nevertheless placed him as the spokesman for silver.
At Bryan's words, he threw his hat into the air, slapped the empty seat in front of him with his coat, and shouted, " My God!
When watching him perform, director Bob Clampett ( or " Wobert Cwampett " in the screen credit ) thought Bryan's girth added to the hilarity of his dialogue, and redesigned Fudd as a fat man patterned after Bryan's real-life appearance.
Just three years after entering private practice, Cummings supported William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential bid, with Connecticut Democrats then nominating him for secretary of state.
At Bryan's urging, Wilson considered him for appointment to high public office, but Kern died on August 17, 1917 in Asheville, North Carolina, nine months after leaving the Senate.
Bryan's team had fast pit stops ( three stops for 1 minute and 31 seconds ), which allowed him to hold the lead.
Bryan's and Democratic
Bryan's strength was based on the traditional Democratic vote ( minus the middle class and the Germans ); he swept the old Populist strongholds in the west and South, and added the silverite states in the west, but did poorly in the industrial heartland.
The U. S. did not actually adopt the gold standard de jure until 1900, following a lengthy period of debate that was made famous by William Jennings Bryan's cross of gold speech at the 1896 Democratic convention.
After Bryan's loss, Butler continued to work for reform on the national stage which would benefit farmers, but this work would soon be cut short by the " white supremacy " campaigns of the Democratic Party in North Carolina.
William Jennings Bryan's western populist movement had split the Democratic Party between the old guard Bourbon Democrats and the Progressives.
A " gold bug " in 1896, Clarke's opposition to William Jennings Bryan's nomination as the Democratic Party's presidential candidate was so great that he bolted the party and participated in the subsequent " Gold Bug " convention in Indianapolis that nominated Senator John M. Palmer later that year.
Arthur Sewall ( November 25, 1835 – September 5, 1900 ) was a U. S. Democratic politician from Maine most notable as William Jennings Bryan's first running mate in 1896.
He was Bryan's running mate for the first of Bryan's three times as the Democratic presidential nominee.
It chronicles William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign as seen through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old, who strongly supported the Democratic Party candidate and was crushed by Bryan's defeat at the hands of the Republican Party.
Many Populists rallied behind William Jennings Bryan's increasingly powerful branch of the Democratic Party, which built the rural economic issues advocated by Populists into their platform.
In 1900, Cockran returned to the Democratic Party, supporting Bryan's second presidential campaign and running again for Congress.
William Jennings Bryan's campaign song for the 1900 Democratic National Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, changed the lyrics to say:
Bryan's and presidential
Following the presidential election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan, accompanied by the governor and other important people of the time, ventured to Forsyth after Bryan's defeat by William McKinley.
Later, during the time of William Jennings Bryan's 1900 presidential campaign, bandwagons had become standard in campaigns, and " jump on the bandwagon " was used as a derogatory term, implying that people were associating themselves with the success without considering what they associated themselves with.
This strategy was successfully implemented for the 1900 presidential election between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan, helping win Bryan's home state of Nebraska for McKinley.
Though an accomplished orator, Clarke's work as a railroad attorney, his opposition to Bryan's presidential candidacy seven years before, and his own personal limitations all contributed to his failure to upset his Republican rival, Mark Hanna, who won the balloting in the Ohio General Assembly by 115 votes to 25 for Clarke.
Many of the League's leaders were classical liberals and " Bourbon Democrats " ( Grover Cleveland Democrats ) who believed in free trade, a gold standard, and limited government ; they opposed William Jennings Bryan's candidacy in the 1896 presidential election.
In 1908, he became a Midwestern compromise vice presidential candidate on William Jennings Bryan's third unsuccessful run for the presidency.
Sarah Palin as his vice presidential candidate in the 2008 presidential election, saying he had picked " the least qualified running mate since the Swedenborgian shipbuilder Arthur Sewall ran as William Jennings Bryan's No. 2 in 1896.
Bryan's and nomination
Jones points out that though Bryan's speaking engagements were not deemed political by the standards of 1896, by modern measurements he was far more active in campaigning for the nomination than most of the better-known candidates.
Most contemporary press accounts attributed Bryan's nomination to his eloquence, though in the case of Republican and other gold-favoring newspapers, they considered it his demagoguery.
Bryan's nomination divided the party.
Altgeld had not supported Bryan for the nomination and hesitated to support the “ Free Silver ” plank that was central to Bryan's campaign.
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The dissidents nominated their own ticket ; the split in the vote would contribute to Bryan's defeat.
They began playing cover tunes as The Wolf Brothers ; eventually they collaborated with Felber, a former high school bandmate of Bryan's, and Jim " Soni " Sonefeld as Hootie & the Blowfish.
Bryan and Rucker began playing cover tunes as The Wolf Brothers ; eventually Bryan and Rucker hooked up with Felber, a former high school band mate of Bryan's, and Jim " Soni " Sonefeld as Hootie & The Blowfish.
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