On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...

Delaware County leaned Republican at the time. But many rural residents were staunchly Democrat. In the late 1880s, local ...

He was William Jennings Bryan, and [on Sept. 23, 1896] he traveled by train along the Delaware River, stopping in Phillipsburg to deliver a rousing speech from the porch of the Union Square Hotel.

Left, William Jennings Bryan, October 3, 1896. Library of Congress. Right, William McKinley 1896 cartoon on a gold coin. Smithsonian collection. Steinway, a Democratic elector four years earlier, said ...

He was only 36. Bryan lost to William McKinley then ran for president and lost twice more, in 1900 to McKinley again and in 1908 to Theodore Roosevelt's candidate, William H. Taft.

Object Details referenced Grant, Jesse Root depicted (sitter) Lincoln, Abraham Blaine, James referenced Bryan, William Jennings depicted (sitter) Grant, Ulysses S. Description A poster in which Jesse ...

Democratic nominees for president William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska and Arthur Sewall of Maine for vice president were nominated at the Chicago convention on July 10, 1896. (Library of Congress) ...

There in 1896 Bryan was pointing out the fallibility of the Supreme Court, as La Follette insisted upon it in 1924 &mdash and it is profoundly discouraging to reflect that the country in 1896 ...

There were just 45 states in 1896, and Bryan won 22 of them. In 2016, Trump won all but four of those 22 states, dominating as Bryan had in the South, the Midwest and the Mountain West.

Phillipsburg seemed to lose its collective mind when William Jennings Bryan came to town on Sept. 23, 1896, during his first presidential campaign. People were climbing telegraph poles to get a ...