Heather Cox Richardson
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7,649 appearances
90 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They associated the Democrats with economic disaster and anarchy, and promised a Republican victory would dramatically improve the economy.
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In the midterms, voters turn Congress back over to Republicans.
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But the fight was not yet over.
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In eighteen ninety six, a handsome young Nebraska Democrat, speaking at the Democratic National Convention, stood firmly for the people.
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There are two ideas of government, William Jennings Bryan said.
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There are those who believe that if you will only legislate to make the well to do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below.
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The democratic idea, however, has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up and through every class which rests upon them.
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Democrats nominated Bryan for the presidency, while Republicans stood behind former Ohio Representative William McKinley, a staunchly pro business lawmaker who was chiefly responsible for the high tariffs of Harrison's term.
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While McKinley stayed home and kept his mouth shut, Republicans flooded the country with speakers and pamphlets charging Democrats with trying to instigate class warfare and saying Bryan was a demagogue who hoped to create a red welter of lawlessness as fantastic and as vicious as the dream of a European communist.
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He was planning to change the government of the people, for the people and by the people into a government of a mob, by the demagogue, for the shiftless and the disorderly and the criminal and the semi criminal.
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In the eighteen ninety-six election, the issue that most clearly divided the Democrats and the Republicans was that of money.
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Democrats noted that Republicans had stopped the coinage of silver in eighteen seventy three in a routine reworking of the nation's currency laws, just as silver strikes in Nevada would have poured silver into the market.
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Workers, farmers, and entrepreneurs wanted the government to coin silver as well as gold to expand the currency, making it easier for them to borrow to develop new businesses to rebuild prosperity.
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But more money might also create inflation, enabling them to pay back loans in cheaper dollars.
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And Republican financiers, creditors, and established businessmen insisted that the security of the nation depended on a gold standard.
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Looser money would decrease the value of their holdings and unsettle businessmen, making them unwilling to invest in the economy to help fuel a recovery.
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In the election of eighteen ninety six, Republican Goldbugs backed Big Business Representative William McKinley, while Democratic Silverites backed Nebraskan William Jennings Bryan.
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The election was one of history's most vicious.
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When Bryan complained about the Republicans' rhetoric, Republicans retorted, This is a fight for the country and the flag.
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McKinley won in eighteen ninety six and the Republicans immediately hiked tariff rates even higher.
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