Treasury, a transfer that delighted the house owners of silver mines, still an important a part of the Democratic coalition. They elevated the purchase of silver bullion by the U.S. As agrarian depression returned, calls for for inflationary monetary reform primarily based both on a return to the "free coining of silver" - supported as all the time by the silver mining interests - or for the top of the gold commonplace, supported by some factions of the Democratic Party, were heard once more. Great Depression started not in 1929 however in 1920. The agricultural depression, then unfold starting in 1929 to the industrial cities and throughout the whole U.S.