...state. The platforms were separate though they were much alike. The joint resolutions adopted asked for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i ; opposed the issue of state and local bonds ; favored the free homes bill ; demanded that all money...

...with Judge Parker's requirements and with undisguised hostility on the part of the ultra-champions of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. His opponent was elected by a majority so large that people concluded he had been knifed at the...

...with Judge Parker's requirements and with undisguised hostility on the part of the ultra-champions of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. His opponent was elected by a majority so large that people concluded he had been knifed at the...

...Bryan, of Nebraska, who pre.ldential was the strongest advocate in the Demo- election of cratic party of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 (.p. 338). In the campaign the tariff issue was subordinated to the issue of free silver. The opponents...

...Democrats were sharply divided on the silver question. Their regular convention (July, 1896) declared for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i (§336), and nominated William J. Bryan of Nebraska, who came suddenly to the front in the ELECTION...

...referred to the people for use or rejection as a medium of exchange. Colorado's pronounced endorsement of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, which Mr. Lesher advocated in the national campaigns of 1896 and 1900, was the seed from which grew...

...American industry. The silver dollar was restored to its position of unlimited legal tender, but instead of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to r, a limited monthly coinage of silver was provided for. Every month a sum of not more than $4,000,000...

...a section of the Prohibition Party, known as the " broad gaugers," had adopted a platform favouring the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i. It was plain, therefore, that Mr. Bryan would receive a very heavy vote from sources outside the pale...

...abolition of national banks and the issue of paper money direct by the United States Government. "2. The free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to I. "3. The increase of the circulating mediums, gold, silver and legal tender greenbacks, to at least...

...midst. There had been a sharp contest over the platform, and after the emphatic declaration in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the consent of any other nation had been adopted, many delegates favoring the gold standard...