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    From 'Cross of Gold' to 'Reporting for Duty'  Aug 27, 2008
    1920 San FranciscoIt took 44 ballots before Ohio Gov. James Cox could gain the nomination over three main rivals, included three-time presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. Cox loses to Warren Harding in the general election but Cox s vice presidential nominee, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt would go on to win the presidency four times. (Human Events Online)

    2008 Democratic National Convention: Remarks as prepared for delivery by Jim Leach, Former Republican Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1st District, Iowa  Aug 26, 2008
    The American progressive tradition reflected in these debates spans Democratic standard bearers from the prairie populist William Jennings Bryan to the Camelot statesman, John F. Kennedy. It includes Republicans like Teddy Roosevelt, who built up the National Parks system and broke down corporate monopolies, and Dwight David Eisenhower, who ran on a pledge to end a war in Korea, brought a stop to European colonial intervention in the Middle East, quietly integrated the Washington, D.C., school... (PR Newswire)

    CATHOLIC JOE'S ABORTION WOE  Aug 26, 2008
    Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, William Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. "To say that men and women should not inject their 'personal morality' into public-policy debates is a practical absurdity. Our law is by definition a codification of morality, much of it grounded in the Judeo-Christian tradition.". (New York Post -- Opinions)

    Celebrating The Political Parties' Parties  Aug 25, 2008
    Today's convention comes on the 100th anniversary of a Democratic Convention in Denver that nominated William Jennings Bryan to carry the Democrats' banner. Contrary to the belief of many of my colleagues, I did not attend that gathering but I have been to a couple since. (CBS News)

    Dean Seeks to Deploy Obama Foot Soldiers  Aug 25, 2008
    Denver last hosted a presidential convention in 1908, when Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan. When you try new things, Dean said, unexpected things are going to happen. (Roll Call)

    Merom Bluff offers highlights of history  Aug 24, 2008
    A historic marker mentions names like William Jennings Bryan, a presidential candidate a century ago and former secretary of state; Carrie Nation, a dedicated prohibitionist; and Billie Sunday, a nationally known evangelist. The gatherings, which had people camping out in the park for a week of lectures, entertainment and good eating, continued from 1905-36. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)

    Denver revs up for Democrats  Aug 24, 2008
    In 1908, Denver held the Democratic convention, which nominated William Jennings Bryan by acclamation before he lost his third bid for the presidency to William Howard Taft. Part Wild West, part business capital of the Rocky Mountain region, the city had big banks as well as Market Street bordellos, 210,000 people, street cars and a sense its fortunes were on the rise. (MSNBC -- Politics)

    Pointless party conventions in the U.S.  Aug 24, 2008
    William Jennings Bryan, who needed five ballots to win the 1896 Democratic presidential nomination, used the occasion in Chicago to deliver perhaps the most memorable convention speech ever, vowing in the debate about the gold standard that the forces of commerce "shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.". The Democrats held a dramatic convention in 1932, when governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt of New York, who required four ballots to be nominated, flew to Chicago a radical step and used... (Globe and Mail)

    Acceptance Speeches Can Actually Matter  Aug 22, 2008
    Back in 1896, William Jennings Bryan, a man with even less political experience than Barack Obama, gave a Democratic convention address that brought the audience to its feet. Then those feet marched to give the Boy Orator of the Platte the nomination. (Townhall.com)

    DEMS-CONVENTION  Aug 22, 2008
    It's been 100 years since Democrats gathered in the mile-high city of Denver to nominate William Jennings Bryan for president. On Monday, 4,440 delegates, 21,000 volunteers, and thousands of journalists and guests will attend the expected coronation of Barack Obama as the party's nominee. (Scripps Howard News Wire)

    The Compleat Ithacan  Aug 20, 2008
    Our motto should be: "ten square miles surrounded by a part of the state that peaked when William Jennings Bryan was presidential timber". Still, it takes some getting used to every August. (Ithaca Times, NY)

    Denver's wild political history on display  Aug 7, 2008
    While Democratic delegates were nominating William Jennings Bryan at the City Auditorium in 1908, party bosses were holed up in the Brown Palace and other downtown hotels, brokering the deal that made John Kern the vice presidential candidate. "A lot of the real decisions were not made in the convention but at the Brown Palace and at the Albany Hotel," Convery said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)

    House GOP Taunts Speaker: 'We're Here, Where Are You?'...  Aug 6, 2008
    In 1896 William Jennings Bryan, gave soaring populist speeches with broad themes about solving all of America's ills. His opponent, William McKinley, a lesser-skilled orator, focused on singular economic issues of the day (monetary policy), the race boiled down to nearly a single issue. (The Drudge Report)

    Can McCain dazzle at Republican convention?  Aug 3, 2008
    Convention speeches probably are no longer as influential as they were in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan, the legendary Democratic orator, populist and three-time unsuccessful presidential candidate, made his historic "Cross of Gold" speech. In those days, a powerful speech could sway delegates and seal the nomination for a candidate. (AZCentral -- News)

    Mark Joseph: Memo to Obama: It's the Christians Stupid  Jul 31, 2008
    They are the political descendents of William Jennings Bryan and are represented in the modern era by politicians like Mark O. Hatfield, Harold Hughes and Jimmy Carter. In 1980 they made a bargain with Ronald Reagan, and when they realized that he was with them on social issues, they went along with him on economic issues. (Fox News)

    Is compromise possible in evolution debate?  Jul 31, 2008
    To assuage the type of concern articulated by William Jennings Bryan, teachers could tell students that even though evolutionary science talks about the survival of the fittest organism, it is not a model for how humans should treat each other. They could explain that students should not make an ought about human behavior from an is of nature and that competition in contemporary society will not lead to increased survival rates. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)

    Banks: A century's worth of memories  Jul 31, 2008
    In 1908, William Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan to become the country's 27th president. Cole was born in Marlborough and spent her childhood on Franklin Street in the city's French Hill area. (Marlborough Enterprise, MA)

    It's show time for Chautauqua  Jul 18, 2008
    It began in New York in the town of the same name and featured lectures by popular personalities of the day like William Jennings Bryan. To get to Chautauqua from St. Louis, take I-55 South to the U.S. Hwy. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    'NEW YORKER' COVER SHOWS OBAMA IN TURBAN WITH GUN-TOTING MICHELLE...  Jul 14, 2008
    Jonathan Martin's Blog: Ya can't make it up - Politico (The Drudge Report)

    Say What? Obama vs. McCain on the Stump  Jul 13, 2008
    William Jennings Bryan and Adlai Stevenson were star orators but never won the presidency. George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter were yawn-inducers at a lectern, but did. (ABC News)

    Dems may sense dj vu  Jul 7, 2008
    The 1908 Democrats nominated William Jennings Bryan, a Nebraskan who had run for president - and lost - twice before. In earlier elections, Westerners had hoped Bryan would be the man to take back the country from the Eastern industrialists, who kept the country on the gold standard. (Durango Herald)

    Plates tied to politics going up for auction  Jul 6, 2008
    The ticket holders heard a dramatic 1896 speech that propelled William Jennings Bryan to a presidential nomination, cheered John F. Kennedy accepting the Democratic nomination in 1960, and shouted at the top of their lungs for Wendell Willkie at the GOP's raucous 1940 convention in Philadelphia. "The tickets printed by these plates were used for admission to see and hear some of America's most important political events," said Q. David Bowers, co-chairman of Stack's, the Wolfeboro and New York... (Boston Globe)

    Convene: Donkeys & Elephants  Jul 4, 2008
    At the 1908 convention in Denver, William Jennings Bryan was chosen as the Democratic presidential candidate. He lost decisively to Republican William Howard Taft on Election Day. (FastCompany)

    Great games that shaped America  Jul 2, 2008
    William Jennings Bryan, with his populist and evangelical message addressing topics such as temperance, was the most popular Chautauqua speaker, until his death in 1925. Music also played an important part in early Chautauquas. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)

    Catholic scholars try to bolster unions  Jun 15, 2008
    One hundred and twelve years ago, in an era of similar uncertainty, William Jennings Bryan, fueled partly by his devout Protestant faith, ran for president on a prounion platform ... Indeed, the Vatican beat William Jennings Bryan to the prolabor punch five years before his epochal 1896 campaign. (Boston Globe)

    Obama Begins Campaign in Low-Key Style  Jun 11, 2008
    Republican John McCain recently dismissed the value of Obama's big events, comparing his fellow senator to William Jennings Bryan _ a famous speechmaker who failed in three tries for the White House. Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer who worked as a community organizer in Chicago, lost many working-class Democrats to Clinton during the primaries. (Newsmax)

    Barack, Bobby, and Bryan  Jun 8, 2008
    It bears the body of William Jennings Bryan the populist and pacifist three-time Democratic presidential nominee. He died in his sleep on a Sunday afternoon a few days after the ending of his Scopes trial showdown with Clarence Darrow. (Townhall.com)

    Click for Full Story  Jun 8, 2008
    In 1915, Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan resigned in a disagreement with President Wilson over U-S handling of the sinking of the Lusitania. In 1948, the "Texaco Star Theater" made its debut on NBC-TV with Milton Berle guest-hosting the first program. (KWTX.com, TX)

    Illinoisans who made the ballot before Obama  Jun 7, 2008
    William Jennings Bryan: Born in Salem, he practiced law in Jacksonville. Bryan served as a congressman from Nebraska and ran for president as a Democrat in 1896, 1900 and 1908. (Marion Daily Republican, IL)

    McCain says he won't run from Bush  Jun 6, 2008
    "If it was simply style, William Jennings Bryan would have been president." (Bryan, a noted orator, lost three presidential elections as the Democratic nominee in 1896, 1900 and 1908. . (USA Today)

    Barack Obama's epic win (383)  Jun 5, 2008
    "But not since William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 have the Democrats nominated a candidate so new to the national stage.". Um, wat about Jimmy Carter. (Salon)

    Church columnists: June 6, 2008  Jun 4, 2008
    At the end of the trial, argued by William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, Mr. Scopes was found guilty of unlawfully teaching evolution and was fined one hundred dollars. But that ruling hardly ended the greater debate over our origins in the universe. (Catoosa County News, GA)

    Around the Square -- The Great State of Illinois  Jun 4, 2008
    Here are a few of them: Jane Adams, social worker; Mary Astor, actress; Jack Benny, comedian; Black Hawk, Sauk Indian chief; Harry A. Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court jurist; Ray Bradbury, author; William Jennings Bryan, orator and politician; Edgar Rice Burroughs, novelist; Gower Champion, choreographer; John Chancellor, television commentator; Jimmy Connors, tennis champion; Richard J. Daley, mayor of Chicago; and Miles Davis, musician. Other people of note from Illinois include Everett Dirksen,... (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)

    Barack Obama's epic win  Jun 4, 2008
    But not since William Jennings Bryan in 1896 and Woodrow Wilson in 1912 have the Democrats nominated a candidate so new to the national stage. Five years ago, Obama was a little-known Illinois state senator embarking on an uphill race for the U.S. Senate. (Salon)

    Rudd, the lion who squeaked  May 30, 2008
    "It is my great sorrow, and makes my life very unhappy. But whenever there is danger, my heart begins to beat fast."The author of The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Frank Baum, is thought to have modelled the lion on the US Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, the father of the American populist movement. Yet Baum still held out hope. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    From the Star Courier files at Kewanee Public Library  May 28, 2008
    A staunch Democrat and close personal friend of presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, Mr. Ladd was often mistaken for the popular orator when they traveled together since they looked a great deal alike. - With necks and arms well sunburned, the senior class members who were on the picnic at Saxon yesterday returned last evening after spending a delightful day in the woods swimming, playing baseball and enjoying other typical picnic games. (Kewanee Star Courier, IL)

    What a woman wants  May 23, 2008
    For about 75 years following Republican William McKinley's 1896 election victory over populist firebrand Democrat William Jennings Bryan, American politics settled into a fairly comfortable and predictable pattern - business and the economic elite voting for the Republicans, more middle and lower income, "popular" interests going for the Democrats. It was McKinley's political guru, Mark Hanna, the Karl Rove of his day, who engineered this significant political "realignment". (Asia Times Online)

    Gavel from 1908 Democratic convention in Denver found  May 21, 2008
    DENVER -- Legend has it that the gavel used to open and close the 1908 Democratic Convention in Denver was hand-carved from a tree on the Nebraska farm of the Great Commoner and presidential nominee, William Jennings Bryan. And, the legend goes on, at the end it was presented as a gift to Mary C.C. Bradford, a Colorado suffragist who was one of five female delegates at the convention. (Scripps Howard News Wire)

    Long history of open and closed avenues  May 21, 2008
    That policy lasted more than 120 years until William Jennings Bryan, attempting to curb Latin American revolutions, adopted a de jure policy, negotiating only with those governments we deemed had a "right" to be in power. That Pandora's box has plagued us ever since. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)

    The Presidency of William Taft  May 20, 2008
    After William Howard Taft (1857-1930) won the 1908 election against three-time losing candidate William Jennings Bryan (321 electoral votes to 162), he took over the Presidency from , fully intent on continuing his predecessors "progressive" agenda. Reform Legislation. (Suite101.com)

    Festival harmonizes with Florida island vibe  May 18, 2008
    Inside a white-domed county courthouse where William Jennings Bryan delivered a campaign speech, we sat in the jury box while the venerable Guarneri Quartet played beneath the judge's bench. "What makes the festival special is its home-grown quality. Even the lack of a conventional concert hall has been turned into a plus," says Michael Tree, the quartet's violist. (Boston Globe)

    'Evangelical intelligentsia' explored  May 16, 2008
    Defense attorney Clarence Darrow told his opponent, William Jennings Bryan, that: "You insult every man of science and learning in the world because he does not believe in your fool religion.". Two years later, Sinclair Lewis's "Elmer Gantry" poked at the anti-intellectualism of leading evangelicals and cast them as corrupt frauds. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)

    Obama rises from obscurity to verge of history  May 11, 2008
    Other great orators have fallen short of the presidency, including Daniel Webster and William Jennings Bryan. 1. (MSNBC -- Politics)

    Petersen missed mark in column  Apr 13, 2008
    He likened William Jennings Bryan to the Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz, calling him a blustering coward who tried to exploit public ignorance and anxiety for political gain ... Calvin_Petersen wrote on Apr 12, 2008 8:14 PM:" "Grand evolution" and "general evolution"? I have the impression that Mr. Nielsen has been reading creationist tracts, as I know of no legitimate scientist who makes such a distinction. However, as "grand evolution" appears to mean the evolution of new species, this is... (Logan Herald Journal, UT)

     Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life  Apr 6, 2008
    The World Link: Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life. Celebrating 100 years of a 'simple' life. (Coos Bay-North Bend The World, OR)

    Record photo by Jonathan David Phillips Anson Extension Director Janine Rywak stands in front of the old extension logo.  Apr 5, 2008
    Published: Wednesday, April 2, 2008 9:30 AM CDT William Howard Taft easily defeated William Jennings Bryan to be named the President of the United States in 1908. Henry Ford produced his first Model-T. Mother s Day was celebrated for the first time. (Anson Record, NC)

    Letters for April 2, 2008  Apr 3, 2008
    Californian Columnists. HotJobs Local Search. (North County Times)

    National Press Club Releases '100 Key Dates in NPC History'  Mar 31, 2008
    April 3, 1915 - One of the first transcontinental phone calls is made from the NPC by William Jennings Bryan. May 16, 1916 - President Woodrow Wilson warns of U.S. involvement in the Great War while speaking at the NPC. June 30, 1919 - Prohibition begins at midnight in the District of Columbia, and the NPC sells beer and fine liquors to members for little to nothing. (PR Newswire)

    Rich get richer, and older  Mar 25, 2008
    wrote on Mar 24, 2008 11:31 AM:" Democrats have, since the days of William Jennings Bryan, been more activist in modernizing government; Wilson completed the 'progressive' reforms in the 19teens and then FDR established effective regulatory agencies for banking and investment during the '30s while at same time going for some innovative public works programs that included a 'federal circus' (featuring a young virile trapeze artist named Burt Lancaster from Harlem, NY), part of the Federal Theater... (La Crosse Tribune, WI)

    What's in a name? How about the White House  Mar 17, 2008
    The biggest loser of all time is William Jennings Bryan, the Democrat who ran for the presidency three times, had the superior name three times, and lost three times. "He really screws up my average," Smith said. (AZCentral -- News)

    Nominate in Haste, Repent at Leisure  Mar 8, 2008
    Grown men have been known to tear up at the sight of Mister Cool wooing the masses, making comparisons to JFK, William Jennings Bryan and the Beatles at the drop of a notebook. Somebody really ought to tell these fans in the guise of commentators to curb their enthusiasm before they say still more embarrassing things. (Townhall.com)

    A Critique of Inherit the Wind  Mar 7, 2008
    Fundamentalist crusader Matthew Harrison Brady (a caricature of William Jennings Bryan), a nationally-known politician and lawyer (and former three-time presidential candidate) sweeps into Hillsboro to help prosecute Cates ... William Jennings Bryan was not disappointed with Scopes' $100 fine (as portrayed in the film) ... Brady is the perfect picture of the aging firebrand, William Jennings Bryan. (Suite101.com)

    The Long Goodbye  Mar 6, 2008
    "If Mr. Kennedy is feeling no great financial pressure to get out of the race," the New York Times reported on June 11, "he also appears to be feeling no great pressure to withdraw to avoid splitting the Democratic party." Days before the convention, Kennedy announced he would break precedent to become the first Democrat since William Jennings Bryan to address the convention before the first roll callthe gesture of an active candidate, not a peacemaker. He ultimately surrendered at the... (Slate)

    The Word from Huey Long  Mar 5, 2008
    This is no William Jennings Bryan reciting his Cross of Gold speech with dramatic gestures. It's more like a reincarnation of John F. Kennedy's restrained elegance. (Townhall.com)

    Division and unityHow party conventions have played a key role in US political history  Mar 3, 2008
    Thirty-six years later, in Chicago, the Democratic Party convention was in turn mesmerised by a young orator from Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan, who advocated "soft money" to help struggling farmers in the Midwest ... William Jennings Bryan, Democratic Convention, 1896. (BBC News -- Americas)

    The challenge of being a populist in 2008  Mar 2, 2008
    They included impassioned orators like William Jennings Bryan, Tom Watson, and "Fighting Bob" LaFollette ... William Jennings Bryan. (Yahoo News)

    Predicts 'Nasty' & 'Vicious' GOP Attacks on Obama  Feb 29, 2008
    " ... Mr. Obama's middle name, which is Muslim in origin, comes from his late father, Barack Hussein Obama Sr., a Kenyan. Mr. Cunningham, like some other conservative commentators, uses it frequently when referring to Mr. Obama, apparently to draw attention to his ancestry. Mr. Obama has been dogged by whispered rumors that he is a Muslim; he is a Christian. END of Excerpt For the story in full: So is the phrase "Barack Hussein Obama" forbidden in the Times, since it is apparently terribly... (MediaResearch.org)

    Fear-peddlers degrade election discourse  Feb 29, 2008
    I'm sure William F. Buckley is already in a hot debate with Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan over some scholarly matter. God bless you, Bill. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)

    Letters to the Editor - 2/22/2008  Feb 23, 2008
    Remember William Jennings Bryan ... Again, I would point to LIBERAL populist Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, a devout Christian, who also argued the prosecution (pro-creation) side in the Scopes trial against Clarence Darrow. (North County Times)

    Huckabee and Modern-Day Clarence Darrows: Inheriting the Wind on Evolution  Feb 17, 2008
    Under the leadership of the late William Jennings Bryan [Scopess primary antagonist], the forces of ignorance and intolerance were marshalled (sic) from Maine to California, and from Canada to Mexico ... William Jennings Bryan pointed out that the doctrine that Darrow and the evolutionists would teach in the schools is the very same one that gives us Nietzsche ... Under the leadership of the late William Jennings Bryan [Scopess primary antagonist], the forces of ignorance and... (Townhall.com)

    K.J. gets overlooked, but shouldn't | Braves  Feb 9, 2008
    And the ghost of William Jennings Bryan preaches every night. To save the lonely souls in the dashboard lights. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)

    Dollar requires mint freshener  Feb 7, 2008
    This lie was exposed by William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential candidate in 1896 when he denounced the power-grab in describing it as "the Crime of 1873". He was referring to the closing of the US mint to silver in 1873, the first major violation of the Constitutions monetary provisions. (Asia Times Online)

    A GREAT CONTEST  Feb 2, 2008
    A William Jennings Bryan populist. And, although they recently dropped out, we also had a new son of the Old South and an Italian-American mayor in the mix. (New York Post -- Opinions)

    A Fair Defense for the Fair Tax  Jan 29, 2008
    William Jennings Bryan promised that an income tax would fair and tax only the rich ... William Jennings Bryan promised that an income tax would fair and tax only the rich. (Townhall.com)

    Obama or Clinton?  Jan 24, 2008
    It all started in 1908, when William Jennings Bryan, a presidential front-runner, visited the Lexington, Va ... It all started in 1908, when William Jennings Bryan, a presidential front-runner, visited the Lexington, Va. (Townhall.com)

    '08 RACE: SOUTHERN DISCOMFORT  Jan 23, 2008
    Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections as the Democrats' nominee. A man tried three times to enter a saloon and three times was tossed out. (New York Post -- Opinions)

    A Clear Narrative in Primary Season  Jan 22, 2008
    Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections (1896, 1900 and 1908) as the Democrats' nominee ... Someone should tell him the joke that another populist, William Jennings Bryan, told on himself after losing three presidential elections (1896, 1900 and 1908) as the Democrats' nominee. (Townhall.com)

    From rat killing to opera old Coliseum saw it all  Jan 20, 2008
    For example, William Jennings Bryan appeared there in 1899, Clarence Darrow in 1910, and Will Rogers in 1928. Back in April 1910, an advertisement for Charles A. Towne, the so-called Cicero of the Senate, promised ticket buyers a witchery of word painting. (The Pantagraph newspaper)

    Young evangelicals embrace Huckabee  Jan 13, 2008
    His singular style Christian traditionalism and the common-man populism of William Jennings Bryan, leavened by an affinity for bass guitar and late-night comedy shows has energized many young and working-class evangelicals. Their support helped his shoestring campaign come from nowhere to win the Iowa Republican caucus and join the front-runners in Michigan, South Carolina and national polls. (MSNBC -- Race)

    Questions for the Fair Tax Crowd  Jan 10, 2008
    When the income tax was originally promoted by William Jennings Bryan and other populists it was labeled as being fairer, since it would not hit the poor ... When the income tax was originally promoted by William Jennings Bryan and other populists it was labeled as being fairer, since it would not hit the poor. (Townhall.com)

    Different styles, same audience for Obama and Huckabee  Jan 5, 2008
    In Democrat Obama's oratory, Kathleen Hall Jamieson hears echoes of Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and even that old populist preacher, William Jennings Bryan. Republican Huckabee, meanwhile, follows the homespun path of GOP icon Ronald Reagan. (Boston Globe)

    Bold reformers are mere performers  Jan 5, 2008
    In their wake - and this list barely skims the surface - came the Chartists and their campaign to expand voting rights; William Gladstone, the Liberal politician who championed public education; William Jennings Bryan, the American progressive populist, whose "Cross of Gold" speech articulated the fight of the working class against the self-seeking monied interests; Theodore Roosevelt, the trust-busting president who tamed the repulsive Gilded Age of Capitalism; his distant cousin Franklin, who... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)

    Goldilocks Needs Tax-Reform, Not Populism  Jan 5, 2008
    Todays John Edwards/Mike Huckabee anti-business populism sounds more like William Jennings Bryan than Adam Smith ... Todays John Edwards/Mike Huckabee anti-business populism sounds more like William Jennings Bryan than Adam Smith. (Townhall.com)

    What about the cities?  Jan 4, 2008
    John Edwards may be fighting for the rural, populist mantle of William Jennings Bryan, but his antipoverty policies could help inner cities if his economic populism doesn't destroy urban entrepreneurship first. Hillary Clinton's pragmatic centrism will do the least to fight urban poverty, but her focus on education and innovation may well be the best thing for cities in the long run. (Boston Globe)

    Edwards uses fighting words in White House quest  Jan 1, 2008
    According to historians, Edwards's message echoes another of that era's famed crusaders, three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan. "He's channeling the legacy of economic populism from Andrew Jackson onward," said Michael Kazin, a Georgetown University professor and author of a Bryan biography. (Boston Globe)

    Mark Joseph: Huckabee Rise Exposes Conservative Rift  Jan 1, 2008
    For Huckabee is an unreconstructed and unapologetic pre-1980 Republican who has more in common with William Jennings Bryan than Ronald Reagan and whose views expose the deep rift that has always existed between social and economic conservatives ... In short, Reagan, making arguments that appealed to their Biblical heritage, argued for a wholesale reversal of decades of soft-hearted Evangelical politics and convinced millions of American Christians that they were in reality full-throated... (Fox News)

    For sound bites, they're go-to guys  Dec 28, 2007
    Who will win the Democratic caucus: "I can tell you who won in 1908. 2008 is harder." For the record, Nevada voted for William Jennings Bryan, who lost to William Howard Taft. Turnout: "30,000. 50,000 if the weather's nice.". (Las Vegas Sun)

    Huckabee on the Chautauqua  Dec 27, 2007
    Mike Huckabee says he wants his party to be "inclusive" and he has been compared to William Jennings Bryan, a devout Christian who ran for president against William McKinley in 1896 ... As one of the Iowa locals told The New York Times: "Huckabee's a moral man. He's a preacher. And he lost a hundred pounds. He's going to do all right in Iowa. What I don't know is how he's going to go with the rest of the country." Maybe he should channel William Jennings Bryan ... Mike Huckabee says he wants his... (Townhall.com)

    Can Al Gore Save Christmas?  Dec 24, 2007
    William Jennings Bryan led this same battle (if I recall correctly, called Fundamentalists at the time) against the creeping Progressivism spreading from the large urban population centers. Bryan led the battle right up to his death in 1925. (Human Events Online)

    The Politics Of Delusional Pundits  Dec 23, 2007
    The youthful William Jennings Bryan brought down the house and swept up the nomination with his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic National Convention in 1896 only to be crushed by the dreary William McKinley in November. Political journalists have never been immune to the delusional style. (CBS News)

    Can Anyone Win This Thing?  Dec 23, 2007
    Perhaps the premier populist in American history, William Jennings Bryan was also the premier loser -- nominated three times for president by the Democratic Party without ever winning. Recent history suggests that to win the presidency, you have to be a white male from the South or West, preferably with experience as a governor. (Townhall.com)

    Mike Huckabee's ascending chariot  Dec 22, 2007
    Democrats even today shiver at the memory of William Jennings Bryan, another implacable foe of Charles Darwin, who ran on a silver platform in the late 19th century. George Wallace, a redneck governor out of Alabama, ran as an independent presidential candidate in 1968, and Richard Nixon was terrified that he would steal enough votes to throw the race to the Democrat, Hubert Humphrey. (DeKalb Daily Chronicle, IL)

    Looking for Mr. Right  Dec 22, 2007
    He's more like William Jennings Bryan than like Ronald Reagan ... He's more like William Jennings Bryan than like Ronald Reagan. (Townhall.com)

    14 comments  Dec 20, 2007
    William Jennings Bryan was, and he died in 1925. This is an OLD struggle. (Human Events Online)

    Church restoration to earn award  Dec 13, 2007
    Its annual meetings were home to some of the nation's most prominent public speakers and social reformers, including William Jennings Bryan, Henry Ward Beecher and Frederick Douglass. Dennis Yusko can be reached at 581-8438 or by e-mail at dyusko@timesunion. (Albany Times Union)

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