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Article: Cross of Gold Speech
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- Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
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CROSS OF GOLD SPEECH
William Jennings Bryan (1860
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1925), a populist firebrand, delivered his famous "Cross of Gold" speech at the Democratic Party's national convention held in Chicago in1896. The convention went on to nominate Bryan as the Democratic candidate for president. Bryan's speech, in which he declared that advocates of hard money should not be allowed to "crucify mankind upon a cross of gold," was a dramatic expression of one of the central battles in the political history of the United States. The confrontation between hard and soft money proponents reached back to the American Revolution (1775
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1783) and followed in large measure regional and class lines. By ...
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