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That's this day in history wherever you get your podcasts. It can be a great leveler, an opportunity to literally and figuratively put the candidates

within touching distance of people. Oh, We talk about Harry S. Truman when we talk about Whistle stop or train campaigning.

The first thing you're going to gravitate to in history is Harry

as Truman.

And he did it well, but the person that probably did it the most and

certainly the first to use it in a massive way is William Jennings Bryan in

1896 when he was running for president against William McKinley who was specifically not going around campaigning around the country

He in 1896 he campaigned by train in 27 states, made hundreds and hundreds of speeches, and is estimated

to have talked to 5 million people.

That's Edward Segal, the author of Whistle Stop Politics, Campaign Trains, and the reporters who covered

them.

And we're going to talk to him today.

adjusted for growth and inflation, whatever, today it would be tens of millions of people.

The platform that William Jennings Bryan had was silver money versus gold money, and specifically

it was the 16 to 1 ratio that the US should start minting silver coins at a 16 1 ratio to gold.

It's an inflationary concept.

We want to get more money out there have more credit it comes out of coins financial other

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