120 Years Ago: UPRISING OF A GREAT PEOPLE: Anarchy and Repudiation Trampled Under Foot

Library of Congress ^ | Wednesday November 4, 1896 | New York Tribune

[NRx]

McKinley wins in electoral landslide. Full edition of the New York Tribune at the link.

[NRx]

This used to be a daily ping list, however I am no longer active on FR. But I thought this worth posting.

[NRx]

Ping

[Da Coyote]

It’ll take a bit more of that to eradicate the progressives.

News at 11.

[DIRTYSECRET]

He never left his house from what I understand. Perhaps Hillary has the same idea.

[Jim W N]

Wow. The media calling a Democratic Party defeat “Anarchy and Repudiation Trampled Under Foot”

So as of 1896, the press was still on America’s side.

I tend to say, in agreement with General George Patton, “God how I hate the twentieth century”.

[Bratch]

Poor William Jennings Bryan.

DRUMMOND. […] I wonder how it feels to be Almost-President three times—with a skull full of undelivered inauguration speeches.

INHERIT THE WIND DEFEAT QUOTES

[Bratch]

Bryan was a Populist.

Most of the Progressives at that time resided in the Republican Party.

[vetvetdoug]

Charles Giteau eliminated the change with one bullet.

[Jim W N]

Such as it is today.

Who between Bryan and McKinley supported the Constitution and limited government? Usually it’s the Democrats who have always wanted unconstitutional government expansion. How was it different in 1896?

[nevergore]

Still reside....in the elite group....

[Little Bill]

In those days it was considered inappropriate for a Presidential Candidate to campaign for himself.

[vetvetdoug]

I got my killers mixed up. Giteau killed Garfield, Czolgosz killed McKinley.

[wally_bert]

I feel mostly the same about the 21st so far.

It will either get really better or go to he’ll soon.

[HarleyLady27]

Thank you for the ping, and it’s good seeing you again!!!

[NRx]

Who between Bryan and McKinley supported the Constitution and limited government? Usually it’s the Democrats who have always wanted unconstitutional government expansion. How was it different in 1896?

The election of 1896 was a watershed in American History. Up until that point the Republicans were the (for that time period) progressive party and the Democrats were the more conservative. Of course the concept of progressive and conservative were vastly different in those days. But the Democrat Grover Cleveland was a strict constitutional conservative who favored the smallest possible government and a policy of sound money (Gold) and low tariffs. Up until then the GOP favored compulsory public education (mostly to suppress private (non-Protestant) religious schools and ensure Protestant instruction for Catholic children. Religious education in public schools was still normative then. The GOP was generally the home of other progressive agitators including those favoring prohibitionism and women's suffrage. Republicans also wanted restrictions on non-Protestant immigration. (At the time there was a wave of Catholic and Jewish immigration coming from southern and Eastern Europe.) The GOP was also more or less openly in favor of American Imperialsm and Colonialism while Democrats were anti-imperialists.

But the great issue of the campaign was monetary policy which was where you saw the two parties begin to cross to opposite ideological sides. The GOP was more sympathetic to those favoring bi-metalism (the silverites) who wanted free coinage of silver at a Federally mandated exchange rate of 15 oz of silver to 1 oz of gold. This of course was preposterous since the real value of silver was less than half that. The Free Silver men also demanded the repeal of gold clauses in bonds and other debt instruments which required repayment of lent money (gold) with gold at the specified interest rates. In effect what they were demanding was the cancellation of half of all debts in the United States via currency debasement. Hence the reference to "repudiation." To say that this would have been catastrophic would be a gross understatement.

But in 1896 this began to change. Bryan was a progressive populist who was an implacable enemy of the gold standard and wanted inflation and repudiation of gold backed debt by demanding that silver be accepted at twice its true value. He also supported prohibition and various other causes of a like nature. By contrast McKinley came out in firm defense of sound money and a more restrained government. The Democrats (many of whom were still in favor of sound money) split in 96 and huge numbers defected to McKinley and the Republicans. After McKinley's assassination in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt became the first and last radical progressive Republican President. Thereafter all Republican Presidents have been at least moderately conservative (Nixon being an arguable exception). And beginning with Woodrow Wilson all Democratic presidents have been liberals.

[Wallace T.]

Before the rise of William Jennings Bryan and the Populist movement, the Democrats were considered the party of the farmer and the workingmen. They were the party supporting states' rights, free trade, limited internal improvements, a limited military force, and a relatively weak Federal government. Grover Cleveland was that type of Democrat, with an ideology closer to Ron Paul in our time than any other contemporary politician. The Republican Party was a pro-business party, favoring Federal supremacy, protective tariffs, a stronger infrastructure, whether public or subsidized private, a strong military, and an activist Federal government. Most of the Republicans, from Lincoln to McKinley, were pro-business.

Bryan maintained traditional Democrat positions on foreign and military matters. However, he favored massive regulation of business, government control of utilities, and a loose money supply. His campaigns laid the groundwork for the rise of Woodrow Wilson, the first true liberal President in the modern sense.

[Jim W N]

See NRx’s excellent post #15.

[Jim W N]

Well, here’s what I believe about the twenty-first century. It of course is an extension of the corruption and abuse that began in earnest in the twentieth century.

I believe we are in the Laodicean age (Revelation 3:14-22), which began around 1900 and is the last age before “The End.” We’re near the End, but, as the guy in Gladiator said, “Not yet.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF9C3cklVIQ

I believe Trump will win because God “rules in the affairs of man” (Dan 4:25) who has taken a hand at this time in America’s history to restore America for the next few decades. I believe the reason for America’s restoration is because God wants to bring in one more wave of souls, an in-gathering around the world to himself as prophesied by Jesus (Luke 14:23).

So I think all this turmoil in America and around the world is a preview of coming attractions, “but not yet”. I think things will begin to settle down - for awhile - a few decades I believe. I think we may very well see a period of prosperity in America and around the world, just before The End and it all comes crashing down. This is also supported by Bible prophesy when Jesus said, “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be (Matt 24:38-39).

So, to summarize, God being behind all of this,
1. I think Trump will win which I think will be the beginning of a period of restoration and prosperity in America for the next few decades.
2. America will once again send its light of freedom and the gospel of the grace of Christ around the world and many will come to Jesus in these last days. The world will experience a degree of peace and prosperity.
3. At some point, I think in the second half of this twenty-first century, Jesus will come suddenly, unexpectedly “as a thief in the night” to take His Church to Heaven (Matt 24:36, 42, 44; 1 Thess 4:16-17, 5:2), which will be followed by seven years of unimaginable horror, death and destruction on earth (Daniel 11:21-12:13; Revelation 6:1-19:21).
4. After this seven-year “tribulation”, Jesus will return from Heaven with his saints and, as King of kings and Lord of Lords, will set up an unimaginably wonderful, peaceful rule for 1000 years such as this world has never ever seen.

All of this happening and launching in this twenty-first century. If I’m right, this will be the most incredible century ever seen.

I hope to get this on my website https://sonsofconstitutionalliberty.com/ and hope also to write a book about it soon. Maybe I’ll call the book “The End Times”, we’ll see.