Bryan's Money Question Turned into a Class Fight
A Lincoln era article argues that William Jennings Bryan misleads labor and farmers by labeling business leaders as ignorant and dishonest over free coinage. It claims bankers and financiers back sound policy, warns that Bryan’s stance risks paralyzing capital,.jobs, and industry, and asserts mind force behind industry directs employment more than masses or politics.
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Bryan
Mr. Bryan
McKinley
State Capitol
Lincoln
Ignatious Donnelly
Mr. Sewall
Donnelly
Mr. Donnelly
Edison
Mr. Edison
Indus
William Jennings Bryan
Colorado
Silver Dollars Remain Legal Tender in Historical Clarification
A historical note defends that Section 67 of earlier law preserved silver dollar legal tender rights. It counters claims of demonetization, explaining the act saved rights and debt payment in silver under former statutes.
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United States
Congress
Usts
A Candidate for the Presidency
Paul Armstrong reviews a presidential hopeful, noting his smile and stagecraft. The piece criticizes his oratory as lacking solid facts, relying on emotion, heroics, and platitudes to persuade audiences. It contrasts the man’s glide with a failure to present verifiable arguments or concrete plans.
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Bill
Jery
Efd
Weilce
Ile
Galliee
Ajax
Qian
Christ
Paul Armstrong
Tena
Women organize campaign committees nationwide
Women across the country organize campaign committees under the Woman's Bureau of the national Republican committee. They distribute literature and use personal influence with husbands, brothers and relatives to secure votes for the good cause, with special attention to first voters.
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Woman’s Bureau
National Republican Committee
A Creamery Lesson From a Kansas Farmer Story
A Kansas stock feeder recalls a creamery in a ten mile radius gathering cream and producing 400 pounds of butter daily. Farmers urge broader outreach to double cream, butter, and profits, but the manager cites investment needed, tight profits, city demand, and employment as key limits. The piece links urban wage labor to farm demand and warns that business judgment shapes industrial activity more than popular opinion.
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Kansas
Kansas City
Nebraska
Denver
Omaha
St. Louis
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
Iowa
Jones' Silver Mine Parody in Cleveland World
The Cleveland World quotes a Lowellesque jab about Senator Jones and a proposed silver or mercurial currency. It mocks a plan to issue coinage tied to a mine and priced by Wall Street, calling the notion a brass vanity and repeating the joke that Jones owns only the vat beneath the meal.
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James Russell Lowell
Jones
Wall Street
Cleveland World
Bryan Attacks Class Labels in Springfield Speech
In Springfield Ohio on Wednesday, Candidate Bryan denounced the idea of a national peasantry as un-American. He asserted every voter is a prince regardless of wealth, warning that class labels are pernicious and that the ballot empowers the poor to become rich.
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Springfield
Bryan
Vanderbilt
United States
Woman’s Work in the Campaign Across States
Women across three states take active voting roles in the campaign. The Woman’s National Republican Association, led by Mrs J Ellen Foster of Des Moines, runs a Chicago bureau to support Republican candidates and house prosperity through protection and sound money. The group is pro Republican, not a suffrage or reform body, focusing on party principles and election efforts.
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Union
Ming
Colorado
Utah
Woman's Bureau
J. Ellen Foster
Des Moines
Woman's National Republican Association
Auditorium Annex
Chicago
National Cam A
Woman's Republican AsSociation
Woman's Association
Repblican Association
Roster
Alice Rosseter Willard
Pate
England
Anna Brophy
Dubuque
Miss Brophy
Foster
Oregon
New Jersey
Républican Party
Remember This Speech by Bourke Cochran in New York
A recent Bourke Cochran speech in New York urged posting a bold truth over factory doors. He proclaimed the $10 gold piece cannot be devalued by any government and pledged that workers must be paid the value of their wage without party bias.
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Bourke Cochran
New York
Galesburg
Women associates aid Mrs Foster in Republican canvass
Mrs Foster organizes a nationwide network of women led by Mrs Thomas W Chace in East Greenwich and Miss Helen Warwick Boswell in New York. Boswell visits tenement districts to explain silver coinage and its impact on buying power while enlisting young businesswomen to advocate sound money and protection.
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Foster
Thomas W. Chace
East Greenwich
R. C
New England
Free wool and silver blamed for wool industry downturn
The article cites editorials from the Philadelphia Record and St. Joseph Herald arguing free wool failed to revive the wool industry, with free silver blamed for reduced sales and idle mills. It notes three years of declining wool output before silver issues, and suggests readers should doubt the wool theory in light of silver turbulence.
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Philadelphia Record
St. Joseph (Mo
Restore the pre-1873 world, Golorady Springs Gazette
A quoted speaker urges Indians and readers to roll back progress to 1873. He calls to tear up railways, shrink wheat and cotton, revert oil and mine production, reduce population, and return to a paper money system with gold at a premium. The piece quotes the Springs Gazette.
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Peller
India
Leadville
Cripple Creek
Golorady
Springs Gazette
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PROM
George Groot
National Silver Party
Neb
My Bryan
Linccoln
Ignatius Donnelly
Minnesota
Bhe Nicers
Wen
Conn Ps
Burlington Machines
Brynn
Havelock
Directors Road
Wil
Chicago Tribune
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