As per Hindu religion, the purpose of life is four fold, to achieve Dharma, Artha, Kama, Moksha. The number one, Dharma means to act virtuously and righteously.Dharma means to act morally and ethically throughout one's life. Hindus believe that they are born in debt to the Gods and other human beings, dharma calls for Hindus to repay this debt. The five different debts are as follows- debt to the Gods for their blessings, debt to parents and teachers, debt to guests, debt to other human beings, and debt to all other living beings.
The populist and Bryan were for free silver while fighting in contradiction of the gold standard which believed as unfair since it was based on a 16-1 ratio in worth. The republicans and gold democrats were his opposing forces. McKinley would win the election of 1896 over Bryan and he ran resilient in were those states that silver was bountifully mined and also the deep south because of his democratic ideals and his fundamentalism in faith.
This was important to them since if there was more senators from the free states than slave states, the senators of the free states could get rid of slavery, and that would be crippling to the South's economy, since the slaves' workforce made up a huge part of the South's economy.