...the hour. The Republican party, barring its few dissenters, maintains an unalterable opposition to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, except it be done under international agreement, contending that as all the chief commercial nations...

...the platform was under discussion for two days by the Committee on Resolutions. A plank declaring for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 was adopted by a vote of 26 to 24. The convention, without debate and without a dissenting voice, adopted...

...silver " Republicans, as well as the passage, with the support of members of both parties, of a bill for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The Act, however, declared it to be the established policy of the United States to maintain the two...

...Democratic party was at this time, ten years before the first "battle of the standards," committed to the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The national Democratic platform of 1884 had declared for the "gold and silver coinage of the constitution,"...

...of the yield of gold. As a result, the people of the State, in 1892, declared enthusiastically for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Serious strikes broke out among the miners in 1894 and 1896-97, and re course was had 1 1 military...

...time as a national party, receiving twenty-two of the electoral votes for its candidate. It stood for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. It asked for an income tax and for government ownership of railroad, telegraph, and telephone systems....

...the phases of the moon or the signs of the zodiac. He will not be one who believes that the tariff, the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, imperialism, the Cuban question, or the Philippine islands exercise a greater control over the yields...

...Cleveland and all that he represented and had formed an alliance with the Populists. They advocated the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, attacked the Supreme Court for certain obnoxious decisions, and actually * Southern delegates to Republican...

...adopted: 330. Second, That we stand squarely on that platform and especially the plank which advocates the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. Third, That we denounce the action of the Supreme court of the United States for their action in regard...

...Union and with the autonomy of our government. You may believe in the single gold standard and I in the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, but if we are Jeffersonian Democrats, there is no other political home for us than the old party which...