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Cross of Gold, 1896

Compare newspaper coverage of Bryan's July 1896 speech defending free silver. Newspaper pages from 1896 on a map and timeline.

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1873 matching newspaper pages in total. New York, NY has the most hits (103 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. New-York Tribune — 1896-07-10, page 1

    … closing his speech, Mr. Bryan dramatically sald: “You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold” This blatherskite declaration stirred up the depths of the Populistic Convention …

  2. New-York Tribune — 1896-07-10, page 4

    … upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.” (Tremendous cheers.) THE CONVENTION GOES WILD. Then ensued perhaps the most extraordinary …

  3. The Journal — 1896-07-10, page 3

    … press down upon the brow of labor this ro of thorns. You shall not crucify upon a cross of gold.' ALL CHICAGO TURNS OUT. Crowd in Front of the Journal Bulletin# Makes the Place …

  4. The Sun — 1896-07-10, page 3

    … upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shs.Il not crucify minklnd upon a cross of gold.'" Tremendous cheers. Wll t HEUONSTnATIlX in novoR op nnrAN. Then ensued perhaps …

  5. The Journal — 1896-07-11, page 4

    … banners, the silvery gonfalon of the Bryan Club, of Omaha, and a banner bear ing the cross of gold. The last was an illustration of the closing paragraph of Bryan's speech: "Yon …

    … shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." Populists May Indorse Bryan. Nobody here doubts but what the Popu lists wttl …

  6. The Sun — 1896-07-11, page 2

    … on an umbrella, on which was this legend: "Bryan, Bryan; no crown of thorns, no cross of gold." These were the utter ances of Bryan In his speech yesterday. They are not new …

  7. The Sun — 1896-07-11, page 3

    … upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify man kind upon a cross of gold." TJTB HZZl.E OF TILLMAy. Hisses In (he Convention Did Not Daunt Illm, but He Fell …

  8. New-York Tribune — 1896-07-12, page 5

    … nomination of the demagogue who erfed out against the crucifixion of mankind on a cross of gold has impressed the English critica as a demented act of revolutionary frenzy, and …

  9. New-York Tribune — 1896-07-14, page 6

    … declared that the defenders of the public credit should “not erueify mankind upon a cross of gold”; but he promises to gibbet the United States as a thief for the world to execrate …

  10. The Sun — 1896-07-14, page 1

    … for President ot tho United States on the strength of his "Crown of thorns and cross of gold" speech, had worked that phraso very hard before, so that It may well havo slipped …

    … upon tho brow of labor this crown ot thorns. Yon shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold." ItKTVBI.lCAS BOLTERS. A. SSeetlMK In Colorado so Decide oa Some Sort or Programme …

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