1896. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



559 



THE GREAT CAMPAIGN 



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Politieal Struggles of Parties, Leaders and Issues 



COMPRISING 



Biographies or the Republican, Democratic, 



Popuiistic, Proiiibition and National 

 Nominees for President and Yice-Presidcnt 



of the United States. 



ALSO 



The Platforms, Principles aM Leaflers of All Parties 



DISCUSSING 



ALL VITAL QUESTIONS "the DAY 



HAVING AS ITS OBJECT 



The Eulghteuttieut and Education of American 

 Upon the Living Issues of the Hour. 



The Gold Standard of Currency, Bi-Metalism, Free Coinage of 

 Silver, High Protective Tariff, Tariff for Revenue Only, 

 Prohibtion, Licensed Liquor Traffic, the Doctrine of 

 Reciprocity, the Monroe Doctrine, Laws Govern- 

 ing Our Relations with Other Nations, the 

 Venezuelan, Armenian and Cuban Ques- 

 tions. Containing also Lives and 

 Portraits of former Presidents, with a Review of their Ad- 

 ministrations and the Political Lessons gleaned from 

 them ; together with a Portrait Gallery of Statesmen 

 and Political Celebrities comprising 100 accurate 

 Phototypes and other Portraits, embracing 

 the most active and prominent statesmen 

 in our Nation. The whole forms a 

 Voter's Hand-Book of Political Information, thoroughly prac- 

 tical, enjoyable and instructive, enabling him to vote in- 

 telligently upon those vital subjects which constitute 

 the living issues of the present great campaign. 



This book embodies the views and opinions of the great 

 leaders from the various party points of view, clearly explain- 

 ing all the momentous questions now before the people. It is 

 planned upon the broad principles of non-partisan national 

 patriotism, and attacks no man's creed, and upholds the ban- 



McKinley. 



Bryan. 



ner of no party ; but placing every party and its principles, 

 with its leaders upon its own platform, and bringing the 

 several parties, platforms and champions in their true light 

 before the mind of the reader, the intelligent citizen will, in 

 this book, be enabled to view and compare them side by side 

 and judge of their respective claims upon his vote as an 



American citizen. It is a vast storehouse of truth, plain, 

 simple and unvarnished, which makes this work an unequalled 

 source of information upon the great issues of this campaign, 

 suited to the wants of every voter irrespective of party and 

 without partisan bias. 



Our Country calls for thirteen million volunteers. "I do 

 love my country's good with a respect more tender, more holy 



Levering. 



Bentley. 



and profound than mine own life," is the language which 

 Shakespeare puts into the mouth of an ideal patriot. May 

 this sentiment find a universal echo in the hearts of the voters 

 of the United States of America who go to the polls in Novem- 

 ber, 1896. 



Great questions are to be settled ; a mighty battle is to be 

 fought; a battle of ballots such as this country has never 

 witnessed, which, in its far-reaching effects, will accomplish 

 on the field of American suffrage, at the Ballot Box, next 

 November, results as potential for good or evil to our Na- 

 tion, revolutions as radical, and effects as lasting upon our 

 institutions, as were ever wrought upon the field where sword 

 and bullet, grape and canister settled the issue of the hour. 



An Impartial view of the situation reveals the fact that 

 our Country never needed more broad-minded wisdom and 

 unselfish patriotism in all her history than she requires to 

 guide her through the present crisis. 



Since the rising war cloud of 1859-60 which deluged our 

 Country in the blood of brothers, our Nation has not been so 

 agitated, divided and excited as it is to-day from ocean to 

 ocean — North, South, East and West, on the great financial 

 question, which is a vital issue of this campaign ; and its set- 

 tlement is fraught with threatenings and omens indicating 

 political combinations, upheavals and surprises which our 

 shrewdest politicians seem unmindful of or unwilling to 

 recognize. 



Since 1873 the mutterings of discontent have been grow- 

 ing louder between the advocates of Gold and Bi-metal stan- 

 dards. During the past three years, these mutterings have 

 grown into clamorous shouts and peremptory demands on both 

 sides. Statesmen never thought so diligently or more deeply 

 on any subject ; and the whole country never was so eager to 

 have all sides of this momentous question presented in a clear, 

 lucid and intelligible manner which the common reader can 

 understand — the money question. 



The Doctrine of Reciprocity is also treated at length from 

 a broad, patriotic and non-partisan point of view. 



This volume contains about 600 pages, is printed on 

 super-calendered paper, and bound in beautifully lithographed 

 board covers. The pictures of the four principal Presidential 

 candidates shown herewith appear on the front outside cover, 

 and the Vice-Presidental candidates on the back cover. 



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