...Senator Teller, of Colorado, who read a minority report which demanded a declaration in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and made a strong and telling appeal in its favor. His motion was not without considerable support,...

...July 7-11. In spite of the protests of Eastern Democrats, a platform was adopted declaring for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. WILLIAM J. BRYAN (qv), of Nebraska, who made a thrilling address to the delegates, closing with the...

...plank was reached Senator Teller of Colorado presented a minority report which declared in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i. Mr. Teller, with deep emotion, declared that the time had come when, if the single gold standard...

...plank was reached Senator Teller of Colorado presented a minority report which declared in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to I. Mr. Teller, with deep emotion, declared that the time had come when, if the single gold standard...

...the country until 1801. There is no doubt that a majority of the voters of 1896 were in favor of a "free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ", yet a sufficient number hesitated and finally because of their distrust of untried measures supported...

...contest over the tariff was pronounced a " sham battle." The Populist platform therefore demanded the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, the speedy increase of circulating money to not less than $50 per head of the population, a graduated...

...patriotism, blend." A motion to recommit the bill with instructions to report a bill providing for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i was defeated by a vote of 140 to n6. The bill was finally passed by a vote of 136 to n9. It is doubtful...

...money, and especially on the proposition that the United States should open its mints to the gratuitous and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. And in doing this I can best express my views in a simple and easily understood manner by adopting...

...understood that upon any House bill on the currency the Senate would affix an amendment providing "for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i without the aid or consent of any other nation." This position was tenaciously held by the Senate...

...fealty and honor its unhestitating edict, and I find that that convention also declared in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. I see those delegates of that party so long dominant in this great nation go to the city of St. Louis....