William McKinley's campaign for US president was successful, defeating William Jennings Bryan, who was both the Democratic and Populist nominee, on November 3, 1896. McKinley, a former Governor of Ohio, refused to deal with eastern bosses such as Thomas Platt and Matthew Quay, who supported favorite son candidates to run against him for the Republican nomination. The large, efficient McKinley organization, run by his friend and political manager Mark Hanna, swept him to a first ballot victory at the 1896 Republican National Convention, with New Jersey's Garret Hobart as his running mate. McKinley intended to run mainly as a protectionist, but free silver became the issue of the day. After Bryan captured the Democratic nomination as a foe of the gold standard, Hanna raised and spent millions to convince voters that free silver would be harmful. McKinley stayed at home in Canton, Ohio, running a front porch campaign that reached millions through press coverage of his speeches, while Bryan toured the nation by rail. McKinley forged an electoral coalition of the well-to-do, urban dwellers, and prosperous farmers that kept the Republicans in power most of the time until 1932.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1534:
The English Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_Supremacy
1848:
A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the Monarchy of the Netherlands. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Rudolph_Thorbecke
1898:
After several months of military stalemate between French and British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew, ending the Fashoda Incident. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fashoda_Incident
1956:
In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis_massacre
1996:
Abdullah Çatlı, a drug trafficker, a contract killer, and a leader of the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking the Susurluk scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_%C3%87atl%C4%B1
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
stasiology: (rare, political science) The study of political parties. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stasiology
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
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