Episode 98

Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley

“A Dinner to Blaine.” The Emporia. Emporia, Kansas. October 30, 1884. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85030221/1884-10-30/ed-1/?sp=2&q=james+blaine+delmonicos&r=0.408,0.506,0.266,0.225,0.

“A Notable Day. Mr. Blaine Talks to the Clergy, Reviews 20,000 Supporters, and is Dined.” Buffalo Weekly Express. Buffalo, New York. October 30, 1884. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/494777476/.

“A Season of Miscellaneous Rant.” The Sun. New York, New York. October 31, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/78689771/?terms=william%20jennings%20bryan%20cooper%20union&match=1.

Algeo, Matthew. The President is a Sick Man: Where in the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman who Dared Expose the Truth. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2012.

“Another Voice for Cleveland.” Library of Congress. Accessed at: http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/ppmsca.15780/.

“At Blue Island. The Presence of the Soldiers Breaks the Great Blockade There.” Chattanooga Daily Times. Chattanooga, Tennessee. July 5, 1894. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/604715823/?terms=pullman%20strike%20blue%20island&match=1.

Avrich, Paul. The Haymarket Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984.

“Bryan Then and Now.” The Wichita Daily Eagle. Wichita, Kansas. October 13, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82014635/1896-10-13/ed-1/?sp=4&q=william+jennings+bryan&r=0.244,0.026,0.431,0.363,0.

Bryan, William Jennings. “Bryan’s ‘Cross of Gold’ Speech: Mesmerizing the Masses.” History Matters. Accessed at: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5354/.

Bryan, William Jennings and Mary Baird Bryan. The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896. Chicago: W. B. Conkey Company, 1896.

Calhoun, Charles W. Benjamin Harrison: The American President Series: The 23rd President, 1889 – 1893. New York: Times Books, 2005.

Calliope! The Wonderful Operonicon or Steam Car of the Muses, as it Appears in the  Gorgeous Street Pageant of the Great European Zoological Association! British Museum, Royal Coliseum, Gallery of Art. Accessed at: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/49/Calliope%2C_the_wonderful_operonicon_or_steam_car_of_the_muses%2C_advertising_poster%2C_1874.jpg/1200px-Calliope%2C_the_wonderful_operonicon_or_steam_car_of_the_muses%2C_advertising_poster%2C_1874.jpg.

Cashman, Sean Dennis. America in the Gilded Age. New York: New York University Press, 1993.

Cleveland, Grover. The Government in the Chicago Strike of 1894. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1913. Accessed at: https://archive.org/details/governmentinchi00clev/page/30/mode/2up.

Commons, John R., David J. Saposs, Helen L. Sumner, E. B. Mittelman, H. E. Hoagland, John B. Andrews, and Selig Perlman. History of Labor in the United States, Volume II. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1921. Accessed at: https://www.google.com/books/edition/History_of_Labour_in_the_United_States_N/6J1ShTnok40C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA502&printsec=frontcover.

“February 16, 1887: Veto of Texas Seed Bill.” Presidential Speeches. The University of Virginia. Accessed at: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/presidential-speeches/february-16-1887-veto-texas-seed-bill.

Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist moment: A Short History of Agrarian Revolt in America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978.

Graff, Henry F. Grover Cleveland. New York: Times Books, 2002.

Green, James. Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing that Divided Gilded Age America. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.

“Image 17 of Clara Barton Papers: Diaries and Journals: 1887, Jan. – May.” Library of Congress. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mss11973.003_0850_0878/?q=texas+drought&sp=17&st=text.

“In re Debs, 158 U.S. 564 (1885).” U.S. Supreme Court. Justia. Accessed at: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/158/564/.

Kelly, Patrick J. “The Election of 1896 and the Restructuring of Civil War Memory.” in The Memory of the Civil War in American Culture, Alice Fahs and Joan Waguh, editors. 180 – 212. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004.

Kogan, Bernard R., editor. The Chicago Haymarket Riot: Anarchy on Trial. Boston: D. D. Heath and Company, 1959.

Lachman, Charles. A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012.

Lepore, Jill. These Truths: A History of the United States. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018.

“Ma, Ma, Where’s My Pa.” The American Menu. Accessed at: https://www.theamericanmenu.com/2010/09/ma-ma-wheres-my-pa.html.

“McKinley’s Speech to Pennsylvanians. Makes a Soul-Stirring Address to 2000 Farmers from Lawrence County. Good Money and Tariff. Citizens Have the Chance at the coming election to Decide Between Honor and Prosperity and Hard Times.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. August 23, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/168183854/.

Merry, Robert W. President McKinley: Architect of the American Century. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Murrin, John M., Paul E. Johnson, James M. McPherson, Alice Fahs, Gary Gerstle, Emily S. Rosenberg, and Norman L. Rosenberg. Liberty, Equality, Power, 6th edition. United States: Cengage Learning, 2014.

“October Term, 1894. Syllabus.” U.S. Reports. Library of Congress. Accessed at: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/usrep/usrep158/usrep158564/usrep158564.pdf.

Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Preceded by a List of Papers, with Synopses of Their Contents, and Followed by an Alphabetical Index of Subjects, Part II. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1889.

Powderly, T. V. “The Army of the Discontented.” The North American Review, Vol. 140, 341 (April, 1885). 369 – 377. Accessed at: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/25118479.pdf.

“Relief for Texas.” National Republican. Washington D.C. January 21, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn86053573/1887-01-21/ed-1/?sp=3&q=texas+drought&r=0.227,0.832,0.475,0.401,0.

Rosemont, Franklin, David Roediger, and Peter Linebaugh, editors. Haymarket Scrapbook, 125th Anniversary Edition. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1986.

Spies, August. “August Spies Defends the Eight-Hour Movement, 1886.” Accessed at: https://college.cengage.com/history/ayers_primary_sources/august_spies_defends_eighthour_movement.htm.

“Suffering in Texas.” The Anderson Intelligencer. Anderson Court House, South Carolina. January 20, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84026965/1887-01-20/ed-1/?sp=1&q=texas+drought&r=0.006,0.425,0.418,0.353,0.

“The Anarchists and the Haymarket Square Incident.” American Experience. PBS. Accessed at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/chicago-anarchists-and-haymarket-square-incident/.

 “The McKinley Tariff of 1890.” History, Art & Archives. United States House of Representatives. Accessed at: https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1851-1900/The-McKinley-Tariff-of-1890/.

The New York Times. New York, New York. July 5, 1894. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/20482864/?terms=pullman%20strike%20troops&match=1.

The Statutes at Large of the United States of America, from August, 1893, to March, 1895, and Recent Treaties, Conventions, and Executive Proclamations, Vol. XXVIII. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1895. Accessed at: https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/ll/llsl//llsl-c53/llsl-c53.pdf.

“The Strike in Congress.” The Onaga Herald. Onaga, Kansas. July 5, 1894. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/96142331/?terms=pullman%20strike&match=1.

The Washington Critic. Washington D.C. February 17, 1887. Accessed at: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn82000205/1887-02-17/ed-1/?q=texas+seed+bill&sp=2&r=0.012,0.006,0.47,0.396,0.

“Third Annual Message (first term).” Grover Cleveland. The American Presidency Project. Accessed at: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/third-annual-message-first-term.

“Trip 4: November 2.” William Jennings Bryan and the Railroad. Accessed at: https://railroads.unl.edu/student_projects/nsanderson/WJB_Trip4Speeches.html.

Warren, Charles. “A Manufacturer of History.” McClure’s Magazine. Vol. XIV, 1. November, 1899. 525 – 537.

White, Richard. The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States During Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865 – 1896. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 

William McKinley. Accessed at: https://s.wsj.net/public/resources/images/BN-VX365_bkrvmc_M_20171101105608.jpg.

William McKinley’s Front Porch in Canton, Ohio. Accessed at:https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/227548e/2147483647/strip/true/crop/730x521+0+0/resize/880x628!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Flegacy%2Fsites%2Fwksu%2Ffiles%2F202009%2Fmckinly_front_porch.jpg.