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GOLD BUGS

GOLD BUGS. Borrowed from the title of the Edgar Allan Poe story "The Gold Bug" (1843), this label by the 1870s referred to those who favored basing the U.S. monetary system on gold to the exclusion of silver. As the struggle over monetary issues intensified, generating heated rhetoric and wonderful cartoons, the term became more derogatory. After 1893, it was applied especially to gold supporters within the Democratic Party. That shrinking ...

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