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“A Too-Continuous Performance”

Topic:
The Gold Democrats and Bryan’s Nomination
Source:
Harper's Weekly
Cartoonist:
William Allen Rogers
Date:
May 12, 1900, p. 427
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Uncle Sam and Miss Columbia are bored by the unending performance of clownish William Jennings Bryan on the issue of free silver (the unlimited coinage of silver). As the Democratic presidential nominee of 1896, Bryan had made free silver the cornerstone of his unsuccessful campaign against Republican William McKinley. Here, peeking its head around the corner is an ostrich, the derogatory symbol of Populism (the proverbial ostrich ignores reality by sticking its head in the ground). Free silver was a key part of the Populist agenda, and the Populist Party had also nominated Bryan for president in 1896. With the presidential election of 1900 taking shape as a Bryan-McKinley rematch, the presumptive Democratic nominee refused to drop free silver despite very different economic and political circumstances from the previous campaign.

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