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Free silver was a major economic policy issue in the United States in the late 19th century. Its advocates were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unlimited coinage of silver in
Republican campaign poster of 1896 attacking free silver
"The free silver highwayman at it again" in 1896
Cartoon from Puck showing a silverite farmer and a Democratic donkey whose wagon has been destroyed by the locomotive of sound money
1896 editorial cartoon equating the free silver movement with Frankenstein's monster.
William McKinley
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William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from 1897 until his assassination in 1901. A member of the Republican Party, he led a realignment that made Republicans largely do
Free silver
…Gold speech in favor of free silver. The Populists also endorsed Bryan and free silver in 1896, which marked the effective end of their independence. William McKinley's victory led to passage of the Gold Standard Act in 1900. The debate over silver lasted from the passage of the Fourth Coinage Act in 1873, which…
McKinley c. 1900
Rutherford B. Hayes was McKinley's mentor during and after the Civil War.
Ida Saxton McKinley
Katherine McKinley