1894 Wyoming Gubernatorial Election
The 1894 Wyoming gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1894. Democratic Governor John E. Osborne, first elected in the 1892 special election, declined to seek re-election to a second term, instead aiming to be elected to the U.S. Senate. In part because of a backlash against the Democratic Party owing to the Panic of 1893, Republicans won the governorship back from the Democrats, and would hold onto it until 1914. Party conventions The Democratic Party nominated State Senator William H. Holliday to succeed Osborne, and adopted a free silver Free silver was a major economic policy issue in the United States in the late 19th-century. Its advocates were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy featuring the unlimited coinage of silver into money on-demand, as opposed to strict adhe ... platform, favoring the coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1. The Republican Party nominated William A. Richards, the Surveyor General for Wyoming and a former Johnson County, Wyom ...
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