How will our German-American vote?. Illustration shows an elderly German American man with one hand pointing to his head and the other pointing to a coin bank labeled Savings Bank on a table, he winks to reinforce that he thinks his investments in the US Bonds protruding from his vest, and his savings are wise decisions. On the left is a poster showing a bust portrait of President William McKinley labeled Expansion and captioned Gold Standard and Sound Money, and on the right is a poster showing a bust portrait of William Jennings Bryan labeled Anti-Expansion and captioned Repudiation and 16 to 1.. Date 1900 August 15. How will our German-American vote?. Illustration shows an elderly German American man with one hand pointing to his head and the other pointing to a coin bank labeled Savings Bank on a table, he winks to reinforce that he thinks his investments in the US Bonds protruding from his vest, and his savings are wise decisions. On the left is a poster showing a bust portrait of President William McKinley labeled Expansion and captioned Gold Standard and Sound Money, and on the right is a poster showing a bust portrait of William Jennings Bryan labeled Anti-Expansion and captioned Repudiation and 16 to 1.. Date 1900 August 15.