Bryan’s anti imperialism linked to trade and silver policy
The speaker argues that Bryan’s populist rise on anti imperialism would make free trade and free silver easier to push. He warns a Democratic sweep could override constitutional limits, undo Spain era treaties, and threaten U S territory while advancing free trade and free silver through Congress.
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Bryan
Senate
United States
Aguinaldo
Spain
House of Representatives
Democratic Party
Congress
Philippines
Jones speech sparks immigrant and wealth rhetoric in Arkansas
The Democratic National Committee chair James K. Jones denounces foreigners and praises 1896 principles while attacking the gold standard. He claims foreigners formed half of McKinley’s vote and labels the gold standard as theft, urging southern American identity and wealth inequality critique.
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McKinley
James K. Jones
Bryan
United States
Democratic National Committee
Arkansas
Democratic National Cem
Sus
Massachusetts
North
East
Mittee
Republican Party
Jones
United States Senate
Capitol
Little Rock
Bryan attacks greenbacks policy in Topeka remarks
In Topeka Bryan argued the Republican bill shows intent to retire greenbacks. He said the law merely redeems greenbacks and reissues them against gold and that the party now supports a gold standard currency system.
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Bryan
Topeka
Republican Party
Bryan and McKinley era rhetoric dominate newspaper quotes
A compilation of editorial quotes attacks on William Jennings Bryan and his anti imperialism stance, contrasting Republican prosperity rhetoric and McKinley supporters. It cites editorials from multiple papers and a 1897 Arkansas legislative speech by James K. Jones criticizing Bryan and highlighting currency expansion and foreign voter influence.
Consent of the Uncoerced and Southern Backing of Bryan
The south backs Bryan strongly insisting that cotton and commerce drive expansion and that the Philippines depend on uncoerced consent from governed peoples. North Carolina and Louisiana illustrate how material interests guide policy and how sunlight will be cast on colonial governance.
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South
Bryan
North Carolina
Louisiana
Philippines
Washington Star
Politician's remark on Philippines sparks ridicule
Colonel Dockery, a Democratic Missouri gubernatorial hopeful, said in Lone Jack that no one in his audience knew of the Philippines before the Spanish war. The remark drew sharp doubt and was dismissed as not seriously meant by critics and observers this year.
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Colonel Dockery
Missouri
Lone Jacke
Philippines
Life Insurance Uptick in First Half of 1900
The report shows old time life insurance companies expanding business in the first half of 1900 by ten to twenty five percent over the same period in 1899. Despite many Americans traveling to Europe and a presidential year, life companies still grew.
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Europe
Ohio Germans affirmed as Americans war remarks
A wartime comment from Representative Tayor of Ohio declares that Germans in Ohio are loyal Americans and share the same convictions as other citizens, dismissing any idea of lingering imperial or militarist sentiment among them.
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Ohio
Representative Tayor
Germans Back McKinley to Avert Panic, Says Ex Senator
Ex Senator Kellar of Minnesota argues Germans will vote for McKinley to avoid another panic, saying a free silver presidency is unaffordable for they. The Indianapolis Journal notes the quote as context for ethnic voting influence.
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Kellar
Minnesota
McKinley
Lndianapolis
Endeavorers Victimized by Tour Agency on Europe Trip
About 420 Christian Endeavorers arriving in New York from Europe on the Aller cannot reach home due to funds shortages. They paid $300-$500 each last June to a touring firm to tour London and Europe, but mismanagement left them without luggage, poor hotels, and in some cases stranded in Cherbourg awaiting remittances.
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Europe
New York
Aller
Army of Hard Luck
Cherbourg
Southampton
Philadelphia
Maryland
St. Louis
Memphis
London
International Convention of Endeavorers
S. J. Edwards
Italy
Maringen
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
Death in a Storm Near Cape Nome Claims Dozens
The Alaska coast disaster leaves numerous victims as storms devastate Nome. The steamship Senator arrived with 250 passengers and about 320000 in treasure. Twenty five bodies washed ashore and buried along Topkuk, Golovin, and Port Safety rivers. many unidentifed.
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Cape Nome
Seattle
Wash
Senator
Nome
Capt. Richardson
Sequoia
Topkuk
Golovin Bay
Port Safety
R. J. Nelson Foun
Chinik
Ramwell
Elmore
Gelovin Bay
Afro American council names leaders and calls for anti lynching law
The national Afro American council elected officers in Indianapolis with Bishop Alexander Walters as president and Ida Wells Barnett as national organizer. They urged President McKinley to back a law protecting citizens from lynching and Booker T. Washington advised progress and race uplift. Philadelphia was picked for the next meeting in 190% with the convention to be held in August 190%.
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Indianapolis
National
United States
Booker T. Washington
Philadelphia
Stone Has Hopes for New York Campaign
Ex-Gov Stone of Missouri and vice chairman of the Democratic National Committee arrived in New York to confer with the subcommittee and set up headquarters. He said the aim is to carry New York for Bryan and not meddle in local affairs.
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New York
Stone
Missouri
Democratic National Committee
National Committee
Bryan
Race Trouble Renewed In New York City Rioting Abroad
A series of racial clashes erupted in Manhattan with apples core thrown at a white vendor, threats of lynching, and fights on Forty-eighth and Forty-seventh streets. Police dispersed crowds as a colored janitor was mortally injured in a West Sixty-third street clash.
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New York
William Kobles
West Forty-eighth Street
Kohles
Forty-eighth Street
Charles Brooks
Brooks
William H. Fettile
Ruth
Forty-seventh Street
Lee Springle
Springle
Ninth Avenue
West Thirty-seventh Street
Michael Grannin
Thirtyninth Street
Grannin
West Sixty-third Street
Charles Daniels
Benjamin Carter
Carter
Daniels
Desperate Harrisburg Criminal Killed by Farmers
Francis Frohm alias Strohm, a fugitive involved in a late Friday shooting at Elizabethville, was killed by a posse of farmers near Elizabethville after a pursuit to the mountain. His companions, Frank Winiski and Whitey Streusser, were implicated in the earlier attempt and one was jailed. Frohm fired at his pursuers before succumbing to wounds in about thirty minutes.
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Harrisburg
Francis Frohm
Strohm
Elizabethville
Frohm
Frank Winiski
Lykens
Bressler
Labor Day Parade Draws Bryan Roosevelt in Chicago
Organized labor of Chicago marched down Michigan Avenue past the Auditorium Hotel where Bryan Roosevelt and Towne stood with leaders on the loggia. A crowd gathered in Electric Park to hear speeches by Bryan Roosevelt and Towne, with addresses by other political figures.
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Chicago
Organized Labor of
William J. Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Michigan Avenue
Auditorium Hotel
Charles A. Towne
Mason
Electric Park
Messrs. Bryan
Roosevelt
Towne
Duel on Horseback Ends in Death in Kentucky
George Bacraft and Charles Robinson met in the road at Chambers Station and dueled on horseback yesterday. Bacraft died and Robinson was seriously wounded. The men had been enemies for years.
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Mt. Sterling
George Bacraft
Charles Robinson
Chambers Station
Bacraft
Robinson
Fire destroys mill in Menifee county
A fire at the Oneonta Lumber Co. mill and lumber yard in Scranton Menifee county destroyed the facility and left about a hundred workers idled. No significant injuries reported and cause under investigation.
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Mt. Sterling
Oneonta Lumber Co
Scranton
Menifee County
MURDER RUNS RIOT AS FOREIGN TROOPS LOOT YELLOW RIVER REGIONS
Chinese in the Pei Ho valley suffer heavy reprisals as international forces from Russia, France, Japan and others advance between Vienna and Pekin. Reports describe widespread looting, killing, and destruction with civilians killed, women and children assaulted, and guards removed during occupation.
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Taku
Shanghai
Pei Ho
Vien Tsin
Pekin
Tung Chow
Chaffee
Tien Tsin
United States
Washington
Tien Tsim
New York
the Herald
Hen Tun
Imperial Secretarate
Li Shan
Li Yien Yuan
Forbidden City
Baron von Ketteler
Imperial Palace
China
State Department
Russia
German steamer St George wrecked off Daiquiri
The German steamer St George, en route from Philadelphia to St Lucia and Daiquiri, ran ashore at Daiquiri yesterday and now lies broadside on rocks. The captain and crew reached shore safely.
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Santiago de Cuba
St. George
Philadelphia
St. Lucia
Daiquiri
Farmer's Son Shoots Father in Martelle Quarrel
In Cedar Rapids, A Woods a farmer near Martelle was shot and killed by his 13 year old son during a quarrel yesterday. The jury exonerated the boy.
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Cedar Rapids
A. Woods
Martelle
Gon
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Anti-Imperialistic League
New York Evening Post
League
Pops
New York City
Pennsylvania
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