Bryan
Bryan's Whistlestop tour
William McKinley
Democrats (Bryan) | Republicans (McKinley) |
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Silver (cheap money) | Gold standard (strong money) |
Lower tariffs to lower prices | High Tariffs to protect industry |
Anti-railroad, anti-monopoly | Pro-business |
Isolationist | Imperialist: Annex and invade the world |
Farmers and some laborers--party of segregation | More diverse urban coalition |
Mark Hannah, 1877.
Legacy of 1896
Legacy of 1896
Legacy of 1896
Legacy of 1896
Jane Addams and the Settlement movement.
Teddy Roosevelt's vision of progressivism
Teddy Roosevelt
The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man’s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being.
There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done.
Combinations in industry are the result of an imperative economic law which cannot be repealed by political legislation. The effort at prohibiting all combination has substantially failed. The way out lies, not in attempting to prevent such combinations, but in completely controlling them in the interest of the public welfare.