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That's SoFi Daily, wherever you get your podcasts. It can be a great leveler, an opportunity to literally and figuratively clip the candidates

within touching distance of people. Oh, We talk about Harry S. Truman when we talk about Whistle stop or train campaigning, you know, the first thing you're going to gravitate

to in history is Harry S Truman.

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 five million people.

That's Edward Seagal, 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 pamphleteers and ideas that are kind of have to be written down and explained.

So if you're at a whistle stop in some town and there's a group of people gather around and the candidate Brian gets out of the

back of the train, you've got to find some easy way to illustrate what this really means.

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