William Jennings Bryan gave one ... changing the course of the Democratic Party. Some pundits have compared Bryan to another populist politician, Donald Trump, and their respective careers can ...

Trump and William Jennings ... value of currency. Bryan's populist crusade could claim roots back to Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson, the progenitors of the Democratic Party and the source ...

WILLIAM Jennings Bryan, the prairie lawyer who roared out of the Gilded Age and thrust the Democratic Party on a populist path to the New Deal, is an exile from the pantheon of modern liberalism.

Yet, William Jennings Bryan still captured the party’s nomination in 1896 ... He galvanizes big crowds with a spirited left-wing populist appeal and has gained the loyalty of the young ...

They not only attack accepted economic doctrines, but one populist ... dominance, William Jennings Bryan led them into the minority for nearly four decades. Today, the Republican Party confronts ...

The Nebraskan Democrat, whom his admirers dubbed “the Great Commoner,” was an economic progressive whose populist rhetoric ... is quite aware that William Jennings Bryan is dead.

Consider William Jennings ... Bryan applied the same rhetorical style that he had honed in prairie schoolhouses and southern convention halls – a popular forum that had been all but ignored by ...

Opposition to protective tariffs was part of the original populist ... the nomination of William Jennings Bryan — dubbed the “Great Commoner” — as the Democratic Party’s nominee.

“Trump isn’t a standard-issue GOP, trying to balance the ticket to get his party into power. He’s starting a new party! He’s just blown up the old GOP.” ...

Before Woodrow Wilson became the standard bearer for the Democratic Party, that honor belonged to William Jennings Bryan, known both as "the Great Commoner" and the "Boy Orator of the Platte." ...