98: Silver & Gold: From Grover Cleveland to William Jennings Bryan & William McKinley
History That Doesn't Suck
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The Democracies Aren't Going to Just Fold to Capital
President grover cleveland and his bourbon democrats took george pollman's side. They ordered the federal troops to cago, whom we met earlier a r u president eugene debs encouraged his men to strike peacefully. He direly predicted the first shot fired by the regular soldiers at the mob here will be the signal for a civil war. But as we know, neither of those follow instead, the strike dies, while eugene and other a r u leaders are sent to jail. The workingman, farmer and unions aren't going to just fold to capital. Far from it. In two years time, they'll find a new hero at the democratic national convention.
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