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During the economic hard times of the 1890s, there were many calls for the federal government to implement the inflationary free coinage of silver. The gold standard was denounced as a plot by the moneyed class to oppress the working masses. William Jennings Bryan was one of the leading free-silver advocates, first as a congressman (1891-1895) and then as the Democratic presidential nominee of 1896. He was soundly defeated in his first bid for the White House by Republican William McKinley. By 1900 the nation had been enjoying three years of economic prosperity without free silver, and Congress placed the United States solely on the gold standard that March. |
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