The parties and the men; or, Political issues of 1896; a history of our great parties from the beginning of the government to the present day. A record of bygone conventions and the various platforms, including the national conventions of the present year. The biographies and portraits of eminent political leaders, and the lives of the candidates for president and vice-president of the United States. The issues of the day impartially reviewed.
A political text-book for 1860: comprising a brief view of presidential nominations and elections: including all the national platforms ever yet adopted: also, a history of the struggle respecting slavery in the territories, and of the action of Congress as to the freedom of the public lands, with the most notable speeches and letters of Messrs. Lincoln, Douglas, Bell, Cass, Seward ... etc., touching the questions of the day; and returns of all presidential elections since 1836.