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1 day ago · They are 4-inch-long infants shaped out of soap that were produced by soap companies to promote both William McKinley, the Republican nominee, and William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee.
1 day ago · Goldwater’s 1964 speech resonates in 2024. David Shribman is the former executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. William Jennings Bryan called for Americans not to be crucified “upon a cross of gold” in 1896. Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1932. John Kennedy set out the New Frontier in 1960.
17 hours ago · Made for the 1896 campaign of William Jennings Bryan, this infant-shaped soap in a cardboard box has a tag promoting the policies of Bryan’s Democratic Party.
1 day ago · Instead: a firebrand companion for the most fiery presidential candidate since the last populist contender, William Jennings Bryan. A freshman lawmaker with a swiftly shifting profile that ...
1 day ago · Made for the 1896 campaign of William Jennings Bryan, this infant-shaped soap in a cardboard box has a tag promoting the policies of Bryan’s Democratic Party. Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Ralph E. Becker Collection of Political Americana
1 day ago · In the Cross of Gold speech, William Bryan Jennings argued in favor of a bimetallic monetary system, which would allow citizens to convert their United States Dollars into both gold and silver. This position was a direct response to the adoption of the gold standard and the elimination of the free silver policy by the United States government.
5 days ago · Though there were more than enough votes in the Senate to defeat the treaty, that body gave its consent to ratification largely because William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic leader, wanted Democrats to approve the treaty and then make imperialism the chief issue of the 1900 presidential campaign.
