...debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coiiiage of silver except by international agreement with the...designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of...

...polls. The national Republican platform of 1896 contained this declaration: "We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international...obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved." 408 for better or for worse, was a practically unanimous declaration by seventy millions of people...

...currency or impair the credit of our country. " We are therefore opposed to the free and unlimited coinage of silver except by international agreement...the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote." Again she paused, and said: "And yet, by giving support to that measure that denies silver the same...

...States was left entirely to the decision of foreign nations. The platform pledged the party to oppose "the free coinage of silver, except by international...the leading commercial nations of the world" (which the party promised to promote); and then concluded, "until such agreement can be obtained the existing...

...Hobart, of New Jersey, for Vice-President. Their platform favored a protective tariff, and opposed "the free coinage of silver except by international...with the leading commercial nations of the world." A few of the delegates, not liking the declaration as to the coinage of silver, left the convention...

...declared in their platform that they were in favor of a protective tariff, and that they were " opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international...with the leading commercial nations of the world." After the vote against free silver had been taken, the twenty-one delegates from the six silver States...

...contest of 1896 had the following plank in its convention platform : " We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by international agreement with the leading nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote" It will be seen by this that the Republican...

...calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international...designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard...

...calculated to debase our currency or Impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver, except by International...obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. A'.l our silver and paper currency muet be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures...

..."We are opposed to the free coinage of silver excepting by international agreement with the leading nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to...obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved." The Republican party can not afford to have such measures as HR 11411 or HR 10289 forced on it. They...