What was the central issue during the 1896 presidential campaign?

The 1892 campaign centered mainly on economic issues, especially the concept of a sound currency. Former Democratic President Grover Cleveland was a proponent of the gold standard, while incumbent Republican President Benjamin Harrison supported bimetalism (both gold and silver money are legal tender in unlimited amounts).

Cleveland also ran on a platform of lowering tariffs (the Republicans believed in tariffs on imported goods) and opposed the Republicans' 1890 voting rights proposal.