 | James Herron Hopkins - Political parties - 1900 - 492 pages
...of the country. For the purpose of honestly liquidating our outstanding coin obligations, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold, at the ratio of sixteen to one, without consulting any other nation. 4. Land is the common heritage of the... | |
 | James Herron Hopkins - Political parties - 1900 - 500 pages
...of the country. For the purpose of honestly liquidating our outstanding coin obligations, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold, at the ratio of sixteen to one, without consulting any other nation. 4. Land is the common heritage of the... | |
 | Agriculture - 1940 - 1240 pages
...faction. It put through a resolution calling for free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 "without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation." In the cjosing debate on the party's proposed platform, William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska rose and... | |
 | American periodicals - 1896 - 1048 pages
...VICE-1'KESIDENT. countrv. For the purpose of honestly liquidating our outstanding coin obligations, we favor the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio 16 to 1. with out consulting any other ns tion." 2. Reelamationofall unearned grants of land... | |
 | David W. Brady - Political Science - 1988 - 236 pages
...the Democrats focused on the gold standard as the basis for the "people's" plight. Their solution: "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at 16 to 1 without waiting for the consent of any other nation." On the gold-silver dispute the Republican... | |
 | John Gray Geer - Political Science - 1996 - 254 pages
...money" (Glad 1964). The Democrats adopted a very clear and opposing stance. As the 1896 platform states, "we demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold" (Johnson and Porter 1973, p. 98). In staking out this position, the Democrats deserted the conservative... | |
 | H.W. Brands - History - 2002 - 383 pages
...these lines; then the platform got down to particulars. 1. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. 2. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than $50 per capita.... | |
 | James Logan Hunt - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 362 pages
..."in sufficient quantity to meet the demands of commerce." For now, however, thev were satisfied with "the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the legal ratio of 16 to i." The convention also endorsed direct election of senators and federal judges,... | |
 | H. W. Brands - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 256 pages
...prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times," the draft platform proclaimed. "We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both...silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1." The inclusion of this plank touched off a debate in the convention as a whole, which climaxed when... | |
 | John Bach McMaster - History - 2006 - 485 pages
...suffrage in the United States is discussed in a later chapter 2 The Democratic platform demanded " the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 18 to 1 "; that is, that out of one pound of gold should be coined as many dollars as out of sixteen... | |
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We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation. 
