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====Compromise with Silverites====
====Compromise with Silverites====
[[File:William B. Allison 1904 picture.jpg|thumb|right|170px]]
Iowa voters, who were mostly farmers, supported populist causes such as free coinage of [[silver]] as well as [[greenbacks]], which induced monetary inflation.<ref name=bio/> Although Congress under the control of Republicans and [[Bourbon Democrats]] had shut down a silver coinage in 1873, Allison managed to push through measures that enacted some degree of [[bimetallism]].<ref name=bio/>
Iowa voters, who were mostly farmers, supported populist causes such as free coinage of [[silver]] as well as [[greenbacks]], which induced monetary inflation.<ref name=bio/> Although Congress under the control of Republicans and [[Bourbon Democrats]] had shut down a silver coinage in 1873, Allison managed to push through measures that enacted some degree of [[bimetallism]].<ref name=bio/>