History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Sherman Actcombined to produce a wish for increase inthe nations hard-money supply. Had theclimax of fervor synchronized with an elec-tion day, a free-coinage President mighthave been elected. Only the Populists were a unit in favor- 172 EXPANSION [1896 ing free coinage. Recent Republican andDemocratic platforms had been phrasedwith Delphic genius to suit the East andWest at once. The best known statesmenof both parties hadwobbled upon thequestion. The Republican party contained a large element fa-vorable
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the end of 1902 . Sherman Actcombined to produce a wish for increase inthe nations hard-money supply. Had theclimax of fervor synchronized with an elec-tion day, a free-coinage President mighthave been elected. Only the Populists were a unit in favor- 172 EXPANSION [1896 ing free coinage. Recent Republican andDemocratic platforms had been phrasedwith Delphic genius to suit the East andWest at once. The best known statesmenof both parties hadwobbled upon thequestion. The Republican party contained a large element fa-vorable to silver,while the Demo-cratic President, atleast, had boldly andsteadfastly exertedhimself to establishthe gold standard. Realiornment offorces begot queeralliances betweenparty foes, lastingbitterness between party fellows. Even theProhibitionists, who held the first conven-tion, were riven into narrow-gauge andbroad-gauge, the latter in a rump conven-tion incorporating a free-coinage plank intotheir creed. If the Republicans kept theirranks closed better than the Democrats, this. Senator Teller, of Colorado, 1896] THE MEN AND THE ISSUE IN i8g6 17; was largely due to the prominence theygave to protection, attacked by the Wil-son-Gorman Act. Their convention sat at St. Louis, Junei6th. It was an eminentlybusiness-like body,even its enthusiasm and applause wearingthe air of making the plat-form, powerful effortsfor a catch-as-catch-could declaration up-on the silver questionsuccumbed to NewEnglands and NewYorks demand for anunequivocal state-ment. The party opposed the free coinage of silver except by internationalagreement with the leading commercial na-tions of the world. . Until such agree,ment can be obtained, the existing goldstandard must be preserved. SenatorTeller,of Colorado, moved a substitute favoring the free, unrestricted, and independent
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