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 [by] John G. Carlisle [and others]