Free silver
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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.
Grover Cleveland
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Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War
Free silver
…the many reasons for the Panic of 1893 and the onset of the 1890s depression. Once he regained power, and after the Panic of 1893 had begun, President Grover Cleveland engineered the repeal of the act, setting the stage for the key issue of the next presidential election. The Populist Party had a strong free-silver…
Cleveland in 1892
Caldwell Presbyterian parsonage, birthplace of Grover Cleveland in Caldwell, New Jersey
Early and undated photograph of Cleveland
A statue of Grover Cleveland outside City Hall in Buffalo, New York