By a vote of 70-28, the Tennessee House of Representatives has approved a bill based on this man’s teachings. The bill purports to::
a. Protect freedom of speech for teachers.
b. Privatize Tennessee’s schools.
c. Prevent openly gay people from teaching in public schools.
e – William Jennings Bryan, many-time presidential candidate on the Populist ticket and Sec. of State under Woodrow Wilson, electrified the Democratic Convention with his 1896 “Cross of Gold” speech advocating a silver-based currency as a remedy for the stubborn depression of the mid-1890s. (Thus he was anti-gold, not pro-gold.) In later life Bryan was famous for prosecuting schoolteacher Scopes for teaching evolution, in the well-remembered Scopes Monkey Trial.