...harmony. The platform, which was unanimously adopted, reaffirms the Chicago platform of 1896, declares for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, and favors the nomination of William J. Bryan to the presidency of the United States in 1900. It denounces...

...who is a man of sincere convictions, has abandoned all that he professed to believe when he advocated the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. He does say, however, that the necessity for asserting those views does not exist at the present time....

...bill or revenue bill should be allowed to go through their body except at the price of a provision for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. After a long debate, the free silver amendment passed the Senate on Saturday, Feb. 1, by a vote which...

...Democrats nominated William J. Bryan for President, and Adlai E. Stevenson for Vice-President, with the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, as an issue. In the campaign the question of free silver was dropped, and the question of expansion...

...adoption of this free silver amendment clearly indicated that a large majority of the Senate favored the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. The other sections of the bill were then made to harmonize with this new provision, and the bill was...

...William u 24 Lowell, FC, Joan of Arc 68 Lowell, P., Mara 2 Lo wry. R., Shall the US Undertake Alone the Free Coinage of Silver at the Ratio of Sixteen to One ?.. 310 Lubbock, Л» J.. Scenery of Switzerland 263 Luce, M., Handbook to the Works of Lord Tennyson....

...facts, figures and arguments for bimetallists. The author draws freely from the best writers in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, and condenses his material into 144 convenient pages. Paper, 25 cents; eight copies mailed for f1.oo. Special...

...repeatedly made will justify us in stating that they are substantialy as follows: (1) He is in favor of the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, and wholly without reference to any action which other governments may or may not take. He also believes...

...to be the issue. The republican financial plank declares for a gold standard and the democrats for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, and halters innumerable there will be in both the old parties. RECEIVED: Numismatic Quarterly and Catalogue...

...free silver amendment clearly indicated for the first time that a large majority of the Senate favored the free coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. From that time dates the current saying "sixteen to one," applied jocosely to many other things than...