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William Jennings Bryan and the Railroad
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August 10
Upper Sandusky, OH
Omaha World-Herald (Morning Edition), Omaha, NE 11
August, 1896.
"Ladies and Gentlemen: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to greet the people who
live in the town of my old friend, Judge Hare. I knew him in congress and I am glad to see the
people who honored themselves by his election. (Cheers.) I trust that you will be able in the future
to have as faithful and honest and as courageous a representative as you had when he was your
member. (Cheers. An elderly man shouts that he is afraid the country will be flooded with silver.)
If any of you are afraid of a flood of money I want you to vote the other ticket.
(Cheers.) You know, there are a great many people who have lived in a drought so long that they are
afraid of a flood." (Loud and prolonged cheers.)
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