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William A. Glaston’s excellent historical overview of the 1896 election (“Trump’s ‘Cross of Gold’ Moment,” Politics & Ideas, Oct. 14) misses two important points. First, William ...

William Jennings Bryan recorded his ‘Cross of Gold’ speech at Richmond’s Gennett studio on July 3, 1923. He’d given the speech at the Democratic national convention in Chicago in 1896.

April 2, 2009 ‘Cross of Gold’ ‘Cross of Gold’ At the 1896 Democratic convention, William Jennings Bryan delivers a speech for the ages.

In his famous “Cross of Gold” speech to the 1896 Democratic convention, he intoned: “Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again; but destroy our farms ...

Obama could give cross of gold speech and still lose, too . McCain, hopefully (?), in an interview with USA Today's David Jackson: "I believe that people are interested very much in substance ...

An illustration depicting William Jennings Bryan on the shoulders of state representatives at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896, moments after he gave his “Cross of Gold ...

But on the whole, this speech and most of Reagan’s speeches tried to argue that all Americans were a special interest, rather than separating them into discrete interest groups.

Two more gold bugs spoke before Bryan took the floor and delivered his famous “Cross of Gold” speech, whipping the crowd into a frenzy and cementing the free silver platform.

On July 9, 1896 a 36-year-old newspaper editor gave a speech before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The next day he became the party’s candidate for President of the United States ...

Contrary to the "Cross of Gold" speech, farmers' refusal to move where the jobs were, not the gold standard, was their undoing.