Bryan was the first Big Government Canidate. The New Yorker Cleveland was the last Small government Democrat.Grant was for hard money, as was Garfield and Authur. Benjamin Harrison WAS a big government guy. Wilson Nationalized industries and got us into a War we had no busniess being in.
Wilson may have been born in I think Virginia but his adult life was all yankee
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I don't agree that Bryan was a big government candidate. Grant's administration was marked by all kinds of corruption scandals, the ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Plains Indians on behalf of the Railroads, and of course massive massive subsidies to big business - like Railroads for example.
I don't disagree Wilson got us into a war we should have stayed out of but he was far from alone in pushing that.