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When in doubt in the nineteenth century, for the Republican--
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and they're going to keep doing it right on up
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through the 1896 election,
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against William Jennings Bryan;
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that's getting ahead of ourselves.
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But man, they're going to trot out every living, surviving,
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sentient Civil War general, by as late as 1896,
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put them on trains and barnstorm them all over the country,
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and paint William Jennings Bryan as a secessionist,
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because he was a populist.
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At any rate, here's one example
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of the kind of bloody shirt rhetoric