An illustration depicting William Jennings Bryan on the shoulders of state representatives at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896, moments after he gave his “Cross of Gold ...

Surely the closing cadence of William Jennings Bryan’s speech at ... one of the inevitable references to “the cross of gold.” In 1896, Bryan opposed the gold standard because it had ...

William Jennings Bryan stepped off the train at ... As a congressman from Lincoln, Nebraska, his eloquent "Cross of Gold" speech won him the first of three presidential nominations.

At the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, William Jennings Bryan gave a speech ... was an unlikely presidential candidate. But his "Cross of Gold" speech — about the gold standard ...

Trump and William Jennings ... College. Bryan was just 36 when he rose to address the Democrats' 1896 national convention and delivered what became known as the "Cross of Gold" speech, equating ...

The silver men tapped Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan to give the concluding argument ... took the floor and delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech, whipping the crowd into a frenzy ...

It reached its electoral pinnacle in 1896 with the nomination of William Jennings ... as well as gold to reflate the economy. But while Bryan is best known for his “Cross of Gold” speech ...

Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan ... mankind upon a cross of gold." It gained Bryan the presidential ...

Kazin’s mission in A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan is to establish that the Great Commoner was the same man with the same principles, and much the same following, during and ...

A specter was haunting Columbia University on Friday – the specter of William Jennings ... one speaker Bryan served as a perfect symbol of the divide. Bryan, after all, was once a hero to progressives ...