OF

WILLIAM MCKINLEY

GARRET A. HOBART

Republican Presidential Candidates of 1896

AND

AN AUTHORIZED, IMPARTIAL, AUTHENTIC, AND COMPLETE HISTORY
OF THEIR PUBLIC CAREER AND PRIVATE LIVES
FROM BOYHOOD TO THE PRESENT DATE

WITH

Anecdotes, Incidents, Personal Reminiscences, Graphic
Pen-Pictures, and Tbrilling Story

CONTAINING ALSO

THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FROM ITS RISE
TO THE PRESENT TIME; THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED
STATES AND ITS FORMATION; AND A COMPLETE SUM-
MARY OF THE LIVES OF ALL THE PRESIDENTS,
FROM WASHINGTON TO CLEVELAND

By HENRY B. RUSSELL

ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS AND FULL PAGE ENGRAVINGS

A. D. Wortbington & Co.

bartford, Conn.

1896

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MARYARD

COLLEGE
LIBRARY

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1896,
BY A. D. WORTHINGTON & COMPANY,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

ΤΟ

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY

WHICH

CONTROLLED THE DESTINIES OF A GREAT NATION
FOR A QUARTER OF A CENTURY,
SAFELY GUIDED IT

In the Greatest Era of Progress the World has ever Known,

AND

ON WHICH TO-DAY THE HOPES OF A PATRIOTIC

PEOPLE DEPEND,

THIS VOLUME IS INSCRIBED.