...hand." it if Cleveland had died and he, Stevenson, had become president. The election cry of the time, free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen-to-one, disguised the currency question. To Cleveland and businessmen with whom he associated...

...as odds the ratio made famous that year by Democrats and Populists who wanted "Free Silver" — the unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. Kearby did not win, but he polled the largest vote ever by a Texas Populist statewide (44 percent)...

...we go home when Hesper summons. . . . None of these latter women are on the hustings shrieking for the "free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to i." There are in evidence in our politics and in behalf of Bryanism only the females who have all the...

...silver as a first step in restoring confidence. Vocal elements in each party were equally insistent that "the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of sixteen to one" be adopted. In addition, the Populist Party, which nominated James B. Weaver for the...

...southern delegations drove the Cleveland "gold bugs" from the floor, adopted a platform calling for "the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold" at the ratio of 16 to 1, and picked a thirty-six-year-old former congressman from Nebraska as their candidate. The epiphany...

...southern delegations drove the Cleveland "gold bugs" from the floor, adopted a platform calling for "the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold" at the ratio of 16 to i, and picked a thirty-six-year-old former congressman from Nebraska as their candidate. The epiphany...

...April 29. 18i»6. — "Resolved. By the Democrats of Mississippi in convention assembled, that we favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the action or co— operation of any other Nation, and we hereby instruct our delegates...

...silver as money at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the cousent of any other nation. Colorado. -The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, and without the consent of any other nation on earth, is and must remaní the paramount Issue in American...

...that it was unwise, under the conditions then prevailing, for his party to continue the demand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to i, and when the majority of the committee on resolutions determined to insert that plank, he framed,...

...reaffirms the fundamental principles of the national democratic platform adopted in Chicago in 1896. The free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to l, and without the consent of any other nation on earth, is and must remain the paramount issue in...