The Democratic Party was a little different, the incumbent president (a Democrat), Grover Cleveland, was for the gold standard which bothered members of the general populus. So at the Democratic convention we see a large amount of Populists who are tired of not being heard. Then William Jennings Bryan comes out and he gives his famous Cross of Gold Speech (Dickinson) where he advocates for free silver. After that, the Democratic Party stops representing the South and starts to represent the workers and farmers especially those concentrated in the …show more content…
McKinley had a campaign manager named Mark Hanna who goes to monopolists and the heads of major corporations and he essentially says that they won’t be happy if Bryan is elected. So McKinley ends up raising some $3.5 million, five times more than that of Bryan and we see business owners telling their workers that if Bryan is elected factories would shut down and the workers would be fired. Business owners even put up signs outside of factories saying that if Brian was elected they shouldn’t bother coming to work the next