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Who was the incumbent President that Bryan repudiated in his "Cross of Gold" speech?

  • Theodore Roosevelt

  • Grover Cleveland

  • Woodrow Wilson

  • William McKinley

Answer

In his "Cross of Gold" speech, Bryan attacked the gold standard and the eastern moneyed interests, repudiating incumbent President Grover Cleveland and his conservative Bourbon Democrats.
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