 The election returns showed that he had not only overcome the big hostile majority with which at the start he had been handicapped, but also that he had piled up for himself the surprising plurality of 3,387 over his principal competitor...

Sibley's upset victory in November 1892 won him a place in the Fifty-third Congress.In Washington the freshman Congressman emerged as a leading critic of the gold standard and advocate of unlimited coinage of silver.Sibley was also an advocate of depoliticizing the tariff question and an early advocate of a constitutional change which would have limited the President of the United States to a single 6-year term of office.