Douglass’s account is written in 1881, twenty-two years after the raid. do you trust his account? why or why not?

Nowadays, we know, thanks to science, that the human memory is very unreliable. When it comes to details specially, scientists found out that eyewitness remember so little of what is actually true and fill in the blanks with false details generated by the brain. This all when the witness is asked about what happened moments after the event.

Considering this knowledge, even though Douglas's account might be correct, it is very unlikely to be the case when it was written 22 years later.

So the answer is no, I do not trust his account.

b) the importance and limits of political power.

i believe the answer is:

-   william jennings bryan is a democrat while mckinley was a republican

at that time, the segment of population that choose for democratic party were the voters with low economic background and vice versa

- william jennings has support of populists and wants to have inflation to farmers while mckinley has support of bankers and businessmen , doesn't want inflation

the fixed value of gold make the large business able to stack up their gold without   being worried that it would devaluated.

- william jennings supported the silver standard while mckinley supported the gold standard

according to jenning, using other metal beside gold could the poor people to have more purchasing power and them advance in the society.