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McKinley Victory in the 1896 Campaign Debated
Washington dispatch recounts the 1896 race in which William McKinley of Ohio defeated William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska. It credits Hanna for campaign organization and notes the era's financial panic, gold standard battles, and the dramatic, nation altering politics that followed.
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Washington
William McKinley
Ohio
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
McKinley
Bryan
Hanna
Mark Hanna
Uye
Treasury
Buchanan
Congress
Cleveland
Democratic Congress
Wilson
Reno
Thomas B. Reeds
New ‘England
Reed Lone
St. Louis
Thomas C. Platt
New York
Platt
Teller
Colorado
Cannon
Utah
Dubois
Idaho
A&a
Chicago
National Committee
Othver
Hoota
Grover Cleveland
United States
Ike
Missouri
John R. McLean
McCall
Massachusetts
Platte
Indianapolis
John M. Palmer
Illinis
Union
Simon Bolivar Buckner
Kentucky
Confederacy
Tampalea
Ranna
Atates Gast
Sippi
Indiana
Marcus A. Hanna Bryan
Campaigen
Republicana
Avery