On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...

Delaware County leaned Republican at the time. But many rural residents were staunchly Democrat. In the late 1880s, local ...

William Jennings Bryan, the defender of agrarian America, and William McKinley, the champion of industrialization, contested for the presidency. McKinley won.

He was William Jennings Bryan, and [on Sept. 23, 1896] he traveled by train along the Delaware River, stopping in Phillipsburg to deliver a rousing speech from the porch of the Union Square Hotel.

William Jennings Bryan delivers a campaign speech, circa 1910. Bryan put himself on the map as one of America's best orators with his "Cross of Gold" speech in 1896.

Consider William Jennings Bryan, who captured the Democratic presidential nomination 120 years ago in 1896. He made a name for himself as a journalist (both before and after serving as a member of ...

On this day in 1860, William Jennings Bryan, a three-time unsuccessful Democratic presidential candidate, was born in Salem, Ill. In 1896, after having served two terms in the House representing ...

Left, William Jennings Bryan, October 3, 1896. Library of Congress. Right, William McKinley 1896 cartoon on a gold coin. Smithsonian collection. Steinway, a Democratic elector four years earlier, said ...

He was only 36. Bryan lost to William McKinley then ran for president and lost twice more, in 1900 to McKinley again and in 1908 to Theodore Roosevelt's candidate, William H. Taft.

There were just 45 states in 1896, and Bryan won 22 of them. In 2016, Trump won all but four of those 22 states, dominating as Bryan had in the South, the Midwest and the Mountain West.

Phillipsburg seemed to lose its collective mind when William Jennings Bryan came to town on Sept. 23, 1896, during his first presidential campaign. People were climbing telegraph poles to get a ...