For his first term on the Republican ticket, William McKinley ran on a largely pro-gold platform but reserved some possibility for bimetallism. McKinley won his first term in the greatest electoral ...
Alaska spent four decades trying to get the federal government to change the mountain's name to Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain.
His opponent, William Jennings Bryan, won the Democratic nomination in large part for his speech at the convention railing against the gold standard. The eastern manufacturers endorsed McKinley ...