7.We go forth confident that we shall win. Why? Because upon the paramount issue in this
campaign there is not a spot of ground upon which the enemy will dare to challenge battle. Why,
if they tell us that the gold standard is a good thing, we point to their platform and tell them that
their platform pledges the party to get rid of a gold standard, and substitute bimetallism. If the
gold standard is a good thing why try to get rid of it? If the gold standard, and I might call your
attention to the fact that some of the very people who are in this convention to-day and who tell
you that we ought to declare in favor of international bimetallism and thereby declare that the
gold standard is wrong, and that the principles of bimetallism are better-these very people four
months ago were open and avowed advocates of the gold standard and telling us that we could
not legislate two metals together even with all the world.
What is bimetallism?
• Why did Bryan favor bimetallism?
