gold-bugs

If I may be allowed to paraphrase: we are all gold-bugs now.

Gold demand hit 10-year high last year 2011

"Gold color, Barry, and they bite like gold-bugs!" chirped Little, irrepressible even in his discomfort; for red ants bite hard and deep.

Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle

"Coin's Financial School" had already taught the people that the "gold-bugs" owned the country and that the people could save themselves from eternal serfdom only by changing the color of their money.

The Iron Puddler Davis, James J 1922

High and low tariffs and free-traders; gold-bugs, green-backers and bi-metallists; Cleveland and Croker, Altgeld and Olney, Hill and Hogg, Waco's Warwick and Colonel Culberson's kid, all clamoring to be dyed-in-the-wool Democrats!

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

Cleveland had lost his influence with Western Democrats before the repeal of the McKinley Act was undertaken, and they, like the Populists, had decided that he was the tool of the corporations and the "gold-bugs" of the East.

The New Nation William E. [Editor] Dodd 1912

They denounce as gold-bugs, without the slightest regard to their past record and position upon the financial question, every man appointed, nominated or elected by the Democratic Party to any position of trust or responsibility.

The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1898

For this reason these public censors denounce all the balance of this magnificent body of eight hundred North Carolinians as gold-bugs hypocritically masquerading in the livery of silver.

The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1898

But he had taught these men to vote for gold-bugs, and they were now doing what he had persuaded them to do on former occasions, and perhaps his realization of the utter political wickedness

The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1898

Soon after the adjournment of the Convention to which this proposition was submitted, it was charged by the Populist organs that the Convention had been captured by gold-bugs

The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1898

In the election of 1896, however, the Populists, while supporting Bryan, voted for many gold-bugs -- gold-bugs for Congress, gold-bugs for the Legislature, gold-bugs for county offices.

The Democratic Hand Book. 1898. Prepared by the State Democratic Executive Committee of North Carolina N.C. 1898