It is the issue of 1776 over again. The audio portion is an excerpt.

The humblest citizen in all the land when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the whole hosts of error that they can bring. .We go forth confident that we shall win. The farmer who goes forth in the morning and toils all day, begins in the spring and toils all summer, and by the application of brain and muscle to the natural resources of this country creates wealth, is as much a businessman as the man who goes upon the Board of Trade and bets upon the price of grain.

Why doesn’t he tell us what he is going to do if they fail to secure an international agreement.

What we need is an Andrew Jackson to stand as Jackson stood, against the encroachments of aggregated wealth.They tell us that this platform was made to catch votes. The miners who go 1,000 feet into the earth or climb 2,000 feet upon the cliffs and bring forth from their hiding places the precious metals to be poured in the channels of trade are as much businessmen as the few financial magnates who in a backroom corner the money of the world.We come to speak for this broader class of businessmen.

Bryan won just a handful of states outside of the Solid South, as he failed to galvanize the support of urban laborers.Bryan remained an influential figure in Democratic politics and, after Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in the A growing rift in the Republican Party gave Democrats their best chance in years to win the presidency. No, my friends, it will never be the judgment of this people. That was Cicero, who destroyed the conspiracies of Cataline and saved Rome. His dramatic speaking style and rhetoric roused the crowd to a frenzy. I would be presumptuous, indeed, to present myself against the distinguished gentlemen to whom you have listened if this were but a measuring of ability; but this is not a contest among persons. Why, if they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing, we point to their platform and tell them that their platform pledges the party to get rid of a gold standard and substitute bimetallism.

One issue that the two parties differed on concerned deposit insurance, as Bryan favored requiring Defying Bryan's confidence in his own victory, Taft decisively won the 1908 presidential election. The Democrats were debating the monetary plank in their platform. We believe it. He says that he wants this country to try to secure an international agreement. When you come before us and tell us that we shall disturb your business interests, we reply that you have disturbed our business interests by your action. We have entreated, and our entreaties have been disregarded. Mr. McKinley was the most popular man among the Republicans ; and everybody three months ago in the Republican Party prophesied his election. If they say bimetallism is good but we cannot have it till some nation helps us, we reply that, instead of having a gold standard because England has, we shall restore bimetallism, and then let England have bimetallism because the United States have.If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world.
I say it was not a question of persons; it was a question of principle; and it is not with gladness, my friends, that we find ourselves brought into conflict with those who are now arrayed on the other side. He also served in the United States House of Representatives and as the United States Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson. But if he means to say that we cannot change our monetary system without protecting those who have loaned money before the change was made, I want to ask him where, in law or in morals, he can find authority for not protecting the debtors when the act of 1873 was passed when he now insists that we must protect the creditor.

Beginning in 1896, he emerged as a dominant force in the Democratic Party, running three times as the party's nominee for President of the United States in the 1896, 1900, and 1908 elections.