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William Jennings Bryan and the Railroad
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October 21
Newcastle, IN (Excerpt)
Omaha World-Herald (Morning Edition), Omaha, NE, 22
October, 1896.
"Ex-President Harrison was elected to the presidency on a platform that denounced Mr.
Cleveland's administration on the ground that he had tried to demonetize silver, but the
ex-president is today stumping this state trying to get the republicans to encores Mr. Cleveland's
financial policy. His policy during the last administration was worse on the money question than his
first administration, but such a change has come over the republican leaders that they want us today
to submit to a policy which they denounced eight years ago. But I say to you, my friends, the only
reason for this change is that the money influences wrote the republican platform and their
influences are trying to make the American people bend to a foreign yoke and pay tribute to a
foreign despotism."
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© Nathan Sanderson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008