AMERICAN POLITICS

(NON-PARTISAN)

FROM THE BEGINNING TO DATE.

EMBODYING

A HISTORY OF ALL THE POLITICAL PARTIES,

WITH

THEIR VIEWS AND RECORDS ON ALL IMPORTANT QUESTIONS.

GREAT SPEECHES ON ALL GREAT ISSUES,

AND

TABULATED HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS.

BY HON. THOMAS V. COOPER,

Member Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1870-72. Senate, 1874-84. Chairman Republican
State Committee of Pennsylvania, 1881-82-83-84-85-86-87.

AND

HECTOR T. FENTON, Esq.,

Of the Philadelphia Bar.

FIFTEENTH AND REVISED EDITION.

PHILADELPHIA:

FIRESIDE PUBLISHING COMPANY.
1892.

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1892, by the

FIRESIDE PUBLISHING COMPANY,

in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D.

ALTEMUS' BOOK BINDERY,

PHILADELPHIA,

Respectfully Dedicated

TO THE

PROPOSITION

THAT ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS SHOULD TAKE AN

INTEREST IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS.