<P> Increasingly, the Republicans personalized their attacks on Bryan as a dangerous religious fanatic . The counter-crusading rhetoric focused on Bryan as a reckless revolutionary whose policies would destroy the economic system . Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld was running for re-election after having pardoned several of the anarchists convicted in the Haymarket bombings . Republican posters and speeches linked Altgeld and Bryan as two dangerous anarchists . The Republican Party tried any number of tactics to ridicule Bryan's economic policies . In one case they printed fake dollar bills which had Bryan's face and read "IN GOD WE TRUST...FOR THE OTHER 53 CENTS," thus illustrating their claim that a dollar bill would be worth only 47 cents if it was backed by silver instead of gold . </P> <P> The Democratic Party in Eastern and Midwestern cities had a strong German Catholic base that was alienated by free silver and inflationist panaceas . They showed little enthusiasm for Bryan, although many were worried that a Republican victory would bring prohibition into play . The Irish Catholics disliked Bryan's revivalistic rhetoric and worried about prohibition as well . However their leaders decided to stick with Bryan, since the departure of so many Bourbon businessmen from the party left the Irish increasingly in control . </P> <P> The Bryan campaign appealed first of all to farmers . It told urban workers that their return to prosperity was possible only if the farmers prospered first . Bryan made the point bluntly in the "Cross of Gold" speech, delivered in Chicago just 25 years after that city had indeed burned down: </P> <Dl> <Dd> "Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again; but destroy our farms, and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country ." </Dd> </Dl>

Who was nominated by two parties in 1896