Originally posted on Thursday, August 8th, 2013
William Jennings Bryan, famous orator and leader of the prairie populist movement, ran for president, and lost, on the platform of free coinage of silver at 16 to one — and against the gold standard — three times. Here is how editorial cartoonist Clifford Berryman, in the Washington Post on July 15, 1905, portrayed Bryan before his third and final run: as a not very successful hooligan:
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