August 10

Alliance, OH (Excerpt)

William Jennings Bryan, The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896 (Chicago: W.B. Conkey Company, 1896), 305-306.

"The employer and the employee have a right to differ in politics. Remember that we live in a nation where the salary which a man receives does not purchase his citizenship. The dollars which are paid for the labor of the hand or mind are paid for labor and not for votes."