to rid the nation of weapons of mass destruction
<u>William Jennings Bryan</u> was a politician that was born in Illinois in 1860. He was a member of the House of Representatives between 1891 and 1895 for the State of Nebraska. During, <em><u>Democratic National Convention in 1896</u></em>, <u>Jennings Bryan</u> gave a celebrated 35-minutes speech in which, he explained why he supported an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unrestricted coinage of silver into money and defending that "<u>the Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous, their prosperity will find its way up through every class which rests upon them"</u>. This speech made a favorable impact on the convention and he won the nomination for the Democratic party to face William McKinley, without the votes from those delegates that supported the gold standard. <em><u>This speech is known as "Cross of Gold speech"</u></em>. Later <em><u>Democratic presidents such as Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt took this philosophy</u></em>, <u>to legislate for the masses leading to prosperity for everyone,</u> as an undeniable essence to their economic and domestic policies.
