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October 8, 1894 | Newspaper
On to Washington
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 8, 1894 | Newspaper
Rough on Administration Democrats
Bryan's World Herald warns Democrats that Republican efforts to peel off conservative Cleveland, gold bug Democrats will end in Republican advantage.
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October 9, 1894 | Newspaper
Quit the Union or be Fired
The U.S. Senate campaign in 1894 featured long speeches by candidates at town gatherings across Nebraska. John Thurston presents his case for defending American interests first by contrasting McKinley as the American with Democratic internationalism.
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October 10, 1894 | Newspaper
First Train for Billings
Railroads changed the spatial relationship of cities and regions, altering trade routes, access to markets, credit, and information. Despite his campaign against railroad political corruption, the editor of The Omaha Bee celebrates the new Billings route with great enthusiasm for the opportunities it will create.
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October 14, 1894 | Newspaper
Thurston-Bryan Debate
Plans for the joint Thurston-Bryan debate proceed.
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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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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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October 16, 1894 | Newspaper
Times Are Getting Better
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 18, 1894 | Speech
Bryan-Thurston First 1894 Debate (Nebraska State Journal)
This article from the October 18, 1894 edition of the Nebraska State Journal summarizes the first debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.
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October 18, 1894 | Speech
Bryan-Thurston First 1894 Debate (Omaha World Herald)
This article from the October 18, 1894 edition of the Omaha World Herald summarizes the first debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.
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October 19, 1894 | Speech
Bryan-Thurston Second 1894 Debate (Omaha World Herald)
This article from the October 19, 1894 edition of the Omaha World Herald summarizes the second debate between Republican candidate John M. Thurston and Democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan during the 1894 Nebraska Senate campaign. The article also presents each man's speech, in full, as well as their rebuttal statements.
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October 20, 1894 | Newspaper
Fallacious Doctrine
Bryan's World Herald criticizes John Thurston's claims in the joint debate that the Republicans defend American working men with the protectionist tariff.
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October 21, 1894 | Newspaper
Bryan in a Tight Place
The Republican State Journal depicts the disagreement over tactics in the Democratic Party because of Bryan's fusion with the Populists.
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October 21, 1894 | Newspaper
How a Woman Viewed it All
Bryan commissioned journalist and author Elia W. Peattie to cover the joint debates. One of a small number of women in the audience, Peattie explains "how a woman viewed" the candidates' respective speeches, political views, manners, and fashion.
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October 21, 1894 | Newspaper
The Political Pot
Bryan's World Herald publishes information on Bryan's next speeches and appearances, as well as reminds voters that the only way for Bryan to be elected Senator is for Democrats to elect Democratic representatives to the legislature.
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October 21, 1894 | Newspaper
Three of a Kind
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 22, 1894 | Newspaper
Bryan and Thurston
Speech by William Jennings Bryan.
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October 22, 1894 | Newspaper
Pulse of Western Progress
In this roundup of Western news about "progress," the Omaha Daily Bee depicts the Indians as unable to manage relationships with aggressive, and presumably corrupt, railroad companies. It applauds the decision by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to restrain the railroads from building across Indian lands. The other news of the West evokes the progress that comes with railroads and that such decisions denied Indians.
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October 24, 1894 | Newspaper
Bringing in the B. & M. Voters
Ever vigilant against railroad political power, the Republican Omaha Daily Bee warns against the possibility of voter fraud in the election through the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad employees whom the company is moving back into Nebraska right before the election.
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October 25, 1894 | Newspaper
Silas
The Nebraska State Journal ridicules Bryan for his attractive looks and youth, and sarcastically dismisses Populist-Democractic gubernatorial candidate Silas Holcomb as a local loan shark. The paper also prints a humorous poem mocking Bryan.
