McKinley, easily (not a racist, xenophobe, or radical).
But pro-child labor and worker-exploitation, with supporting a party equally (in action), racist and exploitative to minorities.
Were they perfect on race? No. Neither were the Radical Republicans. Were they better than Democrats? Absolutely...
McKinley's actually supported Jim Crow laws, or the elite renaming in south, in order to gain votes from businessman who feared Bryan. He did nothing to address exclusion of black people in the south and did nothing about lynchings in the south. Bryan was horrible on race as well, as evident in his backtracking of statements on racial equality to appease Ben Tillman, but the republicans actually had a strong contingent of WASP wings, and racial violence against immigrants, so all I'm saying is that both parties were (post 1896) horrible on race. Besides Republicans were probably more xenophobic than democrats anyway. Though racism is worse than xenophobia.
Where is your evidence that McKinley ever supported Jim Crow? And what makes racism worse than xenophobia?
And Bryan was as much of a nativist, if not more, than any Republican.
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