bimetallists

It was not the intention of the framers of this law to demonetize silver, because they were openly avowed bimetallists, but it limited coinage to silver bought by the government at market price.

Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. John Sherman

A great many rash, and it seems to me foolish things, are being said concerning the independent bimetallists of our country, to charge the free coinage people with being repudiators and anarchists, is but to put the party making such false statement in the position of a base misrepresenter, and sooner or later the charge must slap its maker in the face.

One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed C. A. Bogardus

Of the many singular features in the present overheated controversy, probably the most singular is the fact that comparatively few bimetallists know of, or, at any rate, say much about, this demonetization of gold, while the monometallists ignore it entirely, and many of them, who ought to know better, absolutely deny it.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

The bimetallists of England, on the other hand, assert that the enormous losses of traders owing to the dislocation of the par with silver-using countries, of manufacturers by reason of the rapidly increasing competition of the same countries, of home debtors and of many other classes, and especially the loss to agriculture, far outweigh any gain made by the creditors as such.

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

This commission was composed of six monometallists and six bimetallists, but they assented unanimously to this proposition:

If Not Silver, What? John W. Bookwalter

The bimetallists claimed that this decline was a result of the monetary changes; the advocates of the gold standard asserted that it was due to the great increase in the production of silver.

The Agrarian Crusade; a chronicle of the farmer in politics 1923

It has always been declared by the bimetallists that the successor of gold monometallism will be paper, and Germany is expected to go upon a paper rather than a silver basis.

The Audacious War 1891

It can be said of Jeypore's fair sex that they are bimetallists in the strictest sense.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

It was a period when the contest between the advocates of a single gold standard and the bimetallists raged fiercely, and the contest had not been fully settled by the election of McKinley in 1896.

Historical Essays James Ford Rhodes 1887

It has been the fashion of some quite zealous -- I will not say presumptuous, still less ignorant or shallow writers on this subject -- to charge bimetallists with catering to a mischievous, popular delusion, for political purposes, or with shallowness in thinking or investigating.

Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865