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One who favors the use or establishment of silver as a monetary standard; -- so called by those who favor the gold standard.

At the 1896 convention the silverite-agrarian faction repudiated the president, and nominated the crusading orator — Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
Look at McKinley, Roosevelt, and yourself: in private life spotless in character; honorable, honest, just, humane, generous; scorning trickeries, treacheries, suppressions of the truth, mistranslations of the meanings of facts, the filching of credit earned by another, the condoning of crime, the glorifying of base acts: in public political life the reverse of all this McKinley was a silverite--you concealed it. — Complete Letters of Mark Twain
Roosevelt was a silverite--you concealed it. — Complete Letters of Mark Twain
Parker was a silverite--you publish it. — Complete Letters of Mark Twain
McKinley was a silverite -- you concealed it. — Complete Letters of Mark Twain