last night's surprise "swept in on a speech" late ballot victory by "The West Wing"'s Matt Santos (Jimmy Smits) reminiscent of the 1896 convention and William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold"--

"If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold."