...the old parties hedged on the silver question. The Democratic platform declared that "we hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money...and to the coinage of both gold and silver without discrimination against either metal or charge for mintage." Whether this really meant "free silver"...

...people - 'The Republican party is the friend of silver, it has declared that it is in favor of the use of both gold and silver as the standard money of the nation.' Upon that statement, although we encountered a Populist wave which swept over our Western...

...Republican legislation known as the Sherman Act of 1890 as a cowardly makeshift. . . . We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money...silver, without discriminating against either metal, . . . the maintenance of the parity of both metals, and the equal power of every dollar at all times...

...Moines), September 13, 1893. 2ss There should be coinage of both metals, but the unit of coinage of both must be of "equal intrinsic and exchangeable value,...or be adjusted through international agreement," or be safeguarded through legislation. This platform and the others are found in the Iowa Official Register...

...Moines), September 13, 1893. 238 There should be coinage of both metals, but the unit of coinage of both must be of "equal intrinsic and exchangeable value,...or be adjusted through international agreement," or be safeguarded through legislation. This platform and the others are found in the Iowa Official Register...

...Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890, but did not say what they would put in its place. They declared "for the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal", but added that "the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable...

...Silver Purchase' Act of 1890, but did not say what they would put in its place. They declared "for the coinage of both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal", but added that "the dollar unit of coinage of both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable...

...and exchangeable value.'" Vilas ' financial plank, which declared that the Democratic party stood for "the coinage of "both gold and silver without discriminating against either metal, or charge for mintage." He was charged with straddling the issue so that the platform could be said to be for sound money in...

...: the Democrats saying, with an emphasis perhaps tautological, but useful, that the dollar unit.of coinage of both metals " must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value ; " and the Republicans, though their expression, tolerably plain as it was, was enfeebled for its...

...Minneapolis, on the currency question. The declaration of the Democratic party was : We hold to the use of both gold and silver as the standard money...charge for mintage ; but the dollar unit of coinage o£ both metals must be of equal intrinsic and exchangeable value or be adjusted through international...