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Opinion American populists used to run against tariffs. It could happen again. William Jennings Bryan stoked a worker revolt against protectionism that led to the first income tax.

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On Oct. 24, 1896, William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic Party nominee for President, spoke to what the Quincy Weekly Whig called a “vast multitude” in appearances at Courthouse Square, Washington ...

WASHINGTON, March 17, 1913 (UP) -- When William Jennings Bryan became secretary of state little did an enthusiastic populace ween that the job would develop another quality in the versatile Nebraskan.