360:. In its first official statement, the executive committee of the party accused the Democratic Party of forsaking this tradition by nominating Bryan. For more than a century, it declared, the Democrats had believed "in the ability of every individual, unassisted, if unfettered by law, to achieve his own happiness" and had upheld his "right and opportunity peaceably to pursue whatever course of conduct he would, provided such conduct deprived no other individual of the equal enjoyment of the same right and opportunity". They stood "for
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equal justice and exact justice in all men of every creed and condition; to the largest freedom of individual consistent with good government; to the preservation of the
Federal Government in its constitutional vigor and support of the maintenance of the public faith and sound money; and it is opposed to paternalism and all class legislation.
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in the election, but the party won 137,000 votes, about 1.0% of the national total. After the election of McKinley, some Gold
Democratic partisans tried to portray the election as a stunning victory for their party and confidently predicted that the defeat of the despised Bryan would open the door
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Republican party. It still proclaims, as it has for many years, the power and duty of the Government to raise and maintain prices by law; and it proposes no remedy for
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American people in order that Democrats throughout the Union may unite their patriotic efforts to avert disaster from their country and ruin from their party. The Democratic party is pledged to
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Democratic principles, we cannot support the candidates of that convention, nor be bound by its acts. The Democratic party has survived a victory won in behalf of the doctrine and the policy proclaimed in its name at Chicago.
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existing evils except oppressive and unjust taxation.
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271:who opposed the regular party nominee
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598:McClanahan, Brion (April 7, 2009).
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380:policies of the Democrats and the
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600:"National Democratic Party (NDP)"
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