a history of our parties from the beginning of the government to the present day, together with a record of national conventions and platforms. The biographies and portraits of all the candidates for president and vice-president and other eminent statesmen ... Expansion, by Hon. Albert J. Beveridge ... and Senator George F. Hoar ... Trusts, by Hon. William J. Bryan and Hon. Bourke Cockran, and other topics by noted political authorities ..