Bryan and Labor and the Free Silver Question
The piece argues that business leaders and bankers are well informed on money and oppose free coinage. It contends Mr. Bryan and Donnelly smear business judgment as ignorant while labor depends on capital and mind force to drive industry, citing Edison as an example of labor rising to influence.
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Bryan
Lincoln
Mr. Sewall
Donnelly
Mr. Bryan
Edison
Mr. Edison
Free coinage threat haunts U S business mind
The piece argues that calls for free coinage spark distrust and panic among capitalists. It says investors hide money, Hoover-style fear spreads, investment dries up, and currency circulates less while government mint output lags behind any potential free coinage law.
Laboring crowds hear Bryan as promises clash with policy
Laboring men gather to hear Mr. Bryan, impressed by his kindness and honeyed words. Yet the thoughtful worker notes that industry slows until the money question is settled, and plans for expansion depend on McKinley’s election and a pledged sound business policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Bryan
McKinley
Banks Enemies of Society Denounced in Lincoln Rallies
George Groot and Ignatius Donnelly denounce bankers and financiers as enemies of the people in Lincoln talks on September 7 and 8. They warn of dire consequences for laborers and farmers if bankers are ousted by a Bryanite political shift, questioning who will replace current business leadership.
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George Groot
National Silver Party
Lincoln
Neb
State Capitol
Mr. Bryan
Wall Street
Ignatius Donnelly
Minnesota
Bryan
Bryan speech at Lincoln denounces business interests
The text quotes Mr. Bryan at the state capitol in Lincoln on September 8 praising laborers and farmers while questioning business support. It argues that only investor confidence and bank funding can revive industries, noting bankers’ current hesitancy and drawing parallels to Ignatius Donnelly’s past critiques of financiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Capitol
Lincoln
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Bian
Ignatious Donnelly
Industrial labor and eastern demand hinge on the election
The piece argues that Lincoln Nebraska machine shops employment depends on a business judgment tied to federal policy and eastern demand. It links railroad repair capacity and farm product value to Eastern industrial activity, asserting Western success rests on Eastern confidence and the outcome of Bryan's election.
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Burlington Machines
Lincoln
Nebraska
Jndeaent
Bryan
Burlington
Havelock
East
Kansas
Iowa
Mind workers control industry says opposition to Bryan
A columnist argues that labor and capital roles hinge on consent and confidence in industry. Mind workers and financiers guide production while Bryan’s platform destabilizes business. supporters fear a class war fueled by laborers and farmers uniting against employers.
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William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Mr. Bryan
Colorado
Silver Money Debate Clarified by 1875 Act Provision
The piece argues that 1873 and 1875 Acts preserved silver dollar legal tender. It cites section 67 of the 1875 Act as saving rights and penalties under prior laws, countering claims that demonetization occurred in 1878. The history centers on the status of silver money as legal tender.
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United States
Congress
Denver News
A Candidate for the Presidency Assessment of a political speaker's facade
Paul Armstrong critiques a presidential hopeful, noting the theater of applause and staged dignity. The piece describes the candidate’s grin, camera posing, rhetorical flights, and exhortations that evade facts while appealing to emotion and labor imagery.
Women organize campaign committees for Republican cause
Across the country women form campaign committees under the Woman's Bureau of the national Republican Committee. They distribute literature and influence husbands, brothers, and relatives to secure votes for the good cause, with special effort toward first voters.
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Woman's Bureau
National Republican Committee
The Creamery Lesson On City Demand And Farm Output
A Kansas stock-feeder recounts a tale of a town creamery serving ten miles and 400 pounds of butter daily. He explains that expanding would require huge investment and more labor, and that city wage workers idle due to the Great Panic reduce butter demand. The piece argues industry rests on business minds and national policy, not party rhetoric.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Nebraska
Iowa
Denver
Omaha
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
Jones Owns A Silver Mine Satire
A Cleveland World satire riffs on James Russell Lowell's verse about silver and a fictional "Jones" who supposedly owns a silver mine. It lampoons political manipulation and mercurial coin schemes tied to Wall Street, noting the contrast between a mine owner and a hidden cat beneath the meal.
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James Russell Lowell
Jones
Wall Street
Jones Caine
Cleveland
Woman's Work in the Campaign Presses Republican Ideals
The article notes women nationwide actively participating in the presidential campaign, with voting rights in Bryo ming Colorado and Utah. It highlights the Woman's Bureau led by Mrs. J Ellen Foster in Chicago and explains the Woman's Republican Association is not a suffrage or reform group, but a Republican support body focused on the party's principles and candidates.
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Union
Bryoming
Colorado
Utah
Woman's Bureau
J. Ellen Foster
Des Moines
Womans National Republican Association
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
National Committee
Woman's Republican Association
Woman's Association
Republican Association
Bryan speech attacks class labeling in Springfield
In Springfield Ohio on Wednesday, Bryan condemned the idea of national peasantry. He argues no class should be classified by wealth and warns that demagogues who seek such divisions deserve contempt.
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Springfield
Bryan
Vanderbilt
United States
Bourke Cochran Speech Urges Honest Labor Demands
A Galesburg Evening Bulletin note quotes Bourke Cochran praising the $10 gold piece and urging that the value be paid to workers without party bias. He asserts that the dollar will be honored wherever presented and promises workers their earned wages without cheating.
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Bourke Cochran
New York
Galesburg
Women aides shape campaign for free coinage and sound money
Mrs. Foster relies on capable women in leadership roles. Mrs. Thomas W. Chace based in East Greenwich Rhode Island oversees New England work from there with extensive charitable ties. Miss Helen Warwick Boswell of New York City directs state headquarters at 1473 Broadway and organizes tenement visits to explain free coinage and its impact on purchasing power while recruiting young business women to back Republican candidates.
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Foster
Thomas W. Chace
East Greenwich
R. I
New England
Broadway
Miss Boswell
New York
Chicago headquarters staff highlight Miss Anna Brophy
In Chicago, Mrs Fos ter's chief assistant and secretary is Mrs Alice Rosseter Willard, with broad experience in business and news in the United States and England. Next is Miss Anna Brophy of Dubuque Iowa, valued for education and general knowledge. Miss Brophy serves as chief stenographer and reviews every piece of work for accuracy.
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Chicago
Foster
Alice Rosseter Willard
Engad
Anna Brophy
Dubuque,la
Miss Brophy
Women organize for unity and protection in campaign
Mrs. Foster issues appeal urging patriotic women nationwide to form study committees and promote national unity and protection. From Oregon to New Jersey responses flood in as women are instructed on effective organizing with personal appeal and literature to win votes for the Republican party.
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Republican Party
Free Wool and Free Silver Debate Reaches Verdict
The Philadelphia Record, once optimistic about free wool reviving the woolen industry, admits free wool cannot sustain free silver. The silver craze is blamed for dampening demand and idle mills, as the wool trade declines and eastern distributors cut back purchases. The Saint Joseph Herald notes the shift in argument.
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Indust
Philadelphia Record
St. Joseph (Mo
Let Us Restore The Conditions Before 1873
A Colorado Springs Gazette reprints Mr. Teller urging Indians to backslide to 1873 conditions. It caricatures proposals to dismantle railroads, reduce farming output, curb oil and mining, and revert monetary policy to the old gold standard with a premium, arguing such retrogression would harm modern civilization.
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Mr. Teller
India
Adville
Cripple Creek
Dolria
Colorado Springs Gazette
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Chicago Tribune
Bill
Galiiee
Ajax
Hoe
Christ
Paul Armstrong
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