1896 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WILLIAM MCKINLEY BRASS BUG PIN For Sale

For sale is a1896 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN WILLIAM MCKINLEY Brass BUG PIN
PIN IS MADE OF BRASS!!!The pin,a campaign item from McKinley’s first 1896 presidential campaign, signified McKinley’s support for the gold standard platform. Advocates for McKinley and the gold standard, sometimes referred to as “gold bugs,” believed that the country’s monetary system should be backed only by gold. McKinley’s presidential opponent, William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925), and his supporters, sometimes called “Silverites,” advocated against the gold standard, and believed that currency should be redeemable in silver as well as gold.