William Jennings Bryan, Author at The Imaginative Conservative

About William Jennings Bryan

William Jennings Bryan (March 1, 1860 - July 26, 1925) was a dominant force in the populist wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as the Party's candidate for President of the United States.

Mesmerizing the Masses with Gold

By William Jennings Bryan|2015-07-09T11:51:18-05:00July 8th, 2015|Categories: Economics, Gold Standard, Government|

One of the most famous speeches in American political history was delivered by William Jennings Bryan on July 9, 1896, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. His subject was the free coinage of silver at a ratio of silver to gold of 16 to 1. (This inflationary measure would have increased the amount of [...]