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August 8, 1896 | Speech
Chicago, IL Speech, 1896-08-08
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 6, 1894 | Newspaper
A Colossal Railway Consolidation
Republican Editor Edward Rosewater welcomes the consolidation of the Southern Railway out of its receivership and hopes that bigness will streamline railroad operations and open up opportunities for government oversight and control.
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October 16, 1894 | Newspaper
A Deception And A Snare
Railroads presented political controversies at the very local level, in city hall meetings and town councils over the location of their depots, the kind of service they might run, and a host of other social issues.
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August 10, 1896 | Speech
Ada, OH Speech, 1896-08-10
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 25, 1896 | Speech
Albany, NY Speech, 1896-08-25
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 10, 1896 | Speech
Alliance, OH Speech, 1896-08-10
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 11, 1860 | Illustration
An "After Donkey Engine"
This image from the August 11, 1860 issue of Harper's Weekly offers a cartoonist's rendering of the misleading term "AfterDonkey Engine."
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October 15, 1894 | Newspaper
An Artistic Job of Train Robbing
Bryan's World Herald puts the tariff issue at the center of the 1894 campaign and argues that the tariff is a tax on working people because it results in higher prices for all goods and commodities. The newspaper also editorializes about a recent train robbery, arguing that the Wells Fargo men did not demonstrate enough manliness in the confrontation.
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July 18, 1877 | Newspaper
An Explanation by Captain Charles J. Faulkner, Jr.
This letter to the editor by Captain Charles J. Faulkner, printed in the July 19, 1877 edition of the Baltimore Sun defends his decision to leave the railroad yard at Martinsburg, West Virginia. Faulkner's letter comes in response to newspaper editors who suggested that his company left too soon.
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August 13, 1877 | Newspaper
ART. IX.—The Recent Strikes
This August 13, 1877 article reports on the violence and destruction of the Great Railroad strike in cities across the eastern United States.
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September 19, 1896 | Speech
Ashland, VA Speech, 1896-09-18
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 7, 1896 | Speech
Atlantic, IA Speech, 1896-08-07
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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November 1, 1854 | Letter
Attorney General W.P. Bocark's Opinion Regarding the Bureau of Public Works' Liability for Slaves Killed on Blue Ridge Railroad, November 1, 1854
When two slaves were killed on the Blue Ridge Tunnel project, slaveholders held the Virginia Board of Public Works, which had hired slaves through contractors, liable for the losses. Affidavits were taken on the value of the slaves, their character and history. The Attorney General of Virginia, W. P. Bocock, ruled that whether the slaves were killed on the Virginia Central Rail Road Co. or the Blue Ridge project was immaterial, and that the Board of Public Works was liable for reasonable compensation to the slaveholders.
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July 23, 1877
Bad Allies
In this article from the July 23, 1877 edition of the Toledo Blade, the editors support the striking railroad workers, but condemn the "mob of scoundrels who took advantage of the occasion to commit all sorts of depredations."
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September 19, 1896 | Speech
Baltimore, MD Speech 1, 1896-09-19
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 19, 1896 | Speech
Baltimore, MD Speech 2, 1896-09-19
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 17, 1896 | Speech
Barrytown, NY Speech, 1896-08-17
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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September 26, 1896 | Speech
Bath, ME Speech, 1896-09-26
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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August 8, 1877 | Illustration
Beecher's Theory and Practice
This cover image from the August 8, 1877 issue of PUCK Magazine depicts Henry Ward Beecher as a hypocrite.
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September 14, 1896 | Speech
Belleville, IL Speech, 1896-09-14
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
