Silver question
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Pamphlets of the American Bimetallic League
Collection
Identifier: NC652
Abstract
Includes a constitution and the following titles: India vs the silver question, Finance question solved, and Address of the people of Colorado to the people of the U.S.
Dates:
1893
Resolution of the Democratic State Central Committee
Collection
Identifier: NC729
Abstract
Resolutions passed at a meeting in Reno issuing a position statement for the party platform, most of which dealt with the silver question. The collection contains material from December 5, 1899 created by the Democratic State Central Committee.
Dates:
December 5, 1899
Ingvert Hanson letter to H. Hogan
Collection
Identifier: NC841
Abstract
Letter and poem from Hanson to H.H. Hogan, editor of the Plaindealer newspaper, offering the poem, Bryan and money, for publication. The poem and letter advocate bimetalism.
Dates:
[1898
Francis G. Newlands Papers
Collection
Identifier: 87-07
Abstract
Francis Griffith Newlands was a U.S. Congressman and U.S Senator in Nevada. Collection contains papers, primarily correspondence about water resources and construction from 1891-1902.
Dates:
1891-1902
Republican Club Report
Collection
Identifier: NC1122
Abstract
Report of organizing committee which details purpose, membership, and declarations of principles.,Principles condemn President Grover Cleveland (in his second term of office), advocate trade protectionism, and the remonetization of silver.
Dates:
circa 1893-1897
Republican State Central Committee Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: NC802
Abstract
Clippings about the Nevada Republican convention of 1894, list of delegates, letter to the committee from chair Trenmore Coffin (1896), and an article about the Corbett-Fitzsimmons boxing match of 1897.
Dates:
1894-1897
Preamble on Silver Coinage
Collection
Identifier: 89-71
Abstract
Declaration favoring free coinage of silver, insisting on payment in silver for all business transactions, and declaring that President Cleveland's action on the silver question was a direct contradiction to his campaign promises.
Dates:
August 11, 1893
Silver Question Scrapbook and Nevada District Court Register
Collection
Identifier: NC790
Abstract
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings from local and national newspapers regarding James Baird Weaver, the People's Party and Republican Party national conventions of 1892, the Silver Party platform and ticket, and results of elections in Nevada in the 1890s.,The scrapbook partially fills what was originally a register of actions for the First and Third Judicial Districts, Utah Territory, 1872; and various judicial districts of Nevada, 1872-1878, with index.
Dates:
1872-1878; 1892