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Definition of Silverites

Silverite
Silverite Sil"ver*ite, n. One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard. [Colloq. or Cant]

Meaning of Silverites from wikipedia

- The Silverites were members of a political movement in the United States in the late-19th century that advocated that silver should continue to be a monetary...
- record of 51–58, the Silverites placed sixth in the league. Meriden was managed by Connie Miller and Tommy Tucker. The Silverites ended the season 17.5...
- a bimetallic money system making use of both silver and gold, called "Silverites", sought coinage of silver dollars at a fixed weight ratio of 16-to-1...
- The Silverites took control of the legislature, ****uring the election of William Stewart to the U.S. Senate. The success of the Nevada silverites spurred...
- multipartisan basis. A Silverite, Lemuel Allen, was elected Speaker, and the Democrats and Populists sided with the Silverites to organize the chamber...
- money to help their poorer constituents. In reply, one of the foremost silverites, Richard P. Bland, introduced a bill in 1886 that would require the government...
- rural Democrats wanted silver, especially in the South and West. The silverites took control of the 1896 Democratic National Convention and chose William...
- by the Populist movement. Proponents of monetary silver, known as the silverites, referred back to the Fourth Coinage Act as "The Crime of '73", as it...
- during the American Civil War; the Redeemers, Bourbon Democrats, and Silverites in the late-19th century; and the Southern Democrats and New Deal Democrats...
- not increase as quickly as the po****tion, the result was deflation. Silverites, who wanted more money in circulation to raise the prices that farmers...