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Later Speeches on Political Questions, With Select Controversial Papers (Indianapolis: Carlon and Hollenbeck, 1889), by George W. Julian, ed. by Grace Julian Clarke (HTML at Indiana)
Political Discussions, Legislative, Diplomatic, and Popular, 1856-1886 (Norwich, CT: Henry Bill Publishing Co., 1887), by James Gillespie Blaine (multiple formats at archive.org)
Random Recollections of an Old Political Reporter (New York: Cupples and Leon Co., 1911), by William C. Hudson, contrib. by St. Clair McKelway (page images at HathiTrust)
The Great Usurpation: The United States Under the Confederate Senate and House of Representatives, an Oligarchy (1880), by Republican Congressional Committee (multiple formats at archive.org)
Twenty Years in the Press Gallery: A Concise History of Important Legislation From the 48th to the 58th Congress, the Part Played by the Leading Men of that Period, and the Interesting and Impressive Incidents; Impressions of Official and Political Life in Washington (New York: The author, 1906), by O. O. Stealey, contrib. by Henry Watterson, illust. by Clifford Kennedy Berryman (multiple formats at archive.org)
The Life of William McKinley (2 volumes; Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1916), by Charles S. Olcott
- Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981), by James A. Kehl (page images at Pitt)
Essays and Sketches: Published in His Memory for His Friends by His Children, by Charles W. Smith (multiple formats at Indiana)
Some Reminiscences (New York and Washington: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), by William Lawrence Royall
- HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
- multiple formats at archive.org
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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, by Rutherford B. Hayes, ed. by Charles Richard Williams (HTML with commentary at ohiohistory.org)
Newton Booth, of California, his speeches and addresses (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1894), by Newton Booth and Lauren E. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
The regeneration of the United States; a forecast of its industrial evolution. (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1899), by William Morton Grinnell, Knickerbocker Press, and G.P. Putnam's Sons (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life. (R. Clarke Co., 1901), by John M. Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nord-Amerika (R. Oldenbourg, 1878), by Friedrich Ratzel (page images at HathiTrust)
The Negro in Congress, 1870-1901 (The University of North Carolina press, 1940), by Samuel Denny Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
Orations and speeches by J.M. Ashley of Ohio (Philadelphia : Pub. House of the A.M.E. Church, 1894., 1894), by James Mitchell Ashley, Randall K. Burkett, Benjamin William Arnett, African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Afro-American League of Tennessee (page images at HathiTrust)
Later speeches on political questions, with select controversial papers (Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1889), by George W. Julian and Grace Giddings Julian Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
Politics and pen pictures at home and abroad. (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1892), by Henry W. Hilliard (page images at HathiTrust)
Men and measures of half a century; sketches and comments (C. Scribner's Sons, 1888), by Hugh McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
A checkered life (S.P. Rounds, jr., 1883), by John A. Joyce (page images at HathiTrust)
Hanna (A.A. Knopf, 1929), by Thomas Beer (page images at HathiTrust)
Political discussions, legislative, diplomatic, and popular, 1856-1886 (The Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1887), by James Gillespie Blaine (page images at HathiTrust)
American radicalism, 1865-1901, essays and documents (Connecticut College, 1946), by Chester McArthur Destler (page images at HathiTrust)
American radicalism, 1865-1901, essays and documents. (Octagon Books, 1963), by Chester McArthur Destler (page images at HathiTrust)
National problems, 1885-1897 (Harper & brothers, 1907), by Davis Rich Dewey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The editorials of Henry Watterson (Louisville Courier-Journal company, 1923), by Henry Watterson and Arthur Krock (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of seventy years (C. Scribner's Sons, 1903), by George Frisbie Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)
Theodore Roosevelt and his times : a chronicle of the Progressive movement (Yale University Press ;, 1921), by Harold Howland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The words of James G. Blaine on the issues of the day : embracing selections from his speeches, letters, and public writings : also an account of his nomination to the presidency, his letter of acceptance, a list of the delegates to the National Republican Convention of 1884, etc., with a biographical sketch : together with the life and public service of John A. Logan (D.L. Guernsey, 1884), by James Gillespie Blaine and Walter S. Vail (page images at HathiTrust)
A collection of the writings of John James Ingalls; essays, addresses, and orations. (Hudson-Kimberly publishing co., 1902), by John James Ingalls and William Elsey Connelley (page images at HathiTrust)
The congressional career of Thomas Francis Bayard, 1869-1885 (Georgetown university press, 1946), by Charles Callan Tansill (page images at HathiTrust)
Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar; a memoir (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911), by Moorfield Storey and Edward Waldo Emerson (page images at HathiTrust)
The life and letters of M.P. O'Connor. (Dempsey & Carroll, 1893), by Michael P. O'Connor and Mary Doline O'Connor (page images at HathiTrust)
Forty years of active service; being some history of the war between the confederacy and the union and of the events leading up to it, with reminiscences of the struggle and accounts of the author's experiences of four years from private to lieutenant-colonel and acting colonel in the cavalry of the Army of northern Virginia ... (The Neale publishing company, 1904), by Charles T. O'Ferrall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Causes and consequences (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898), by John Jay Chapman and Oliver Wendell Holmes Collection (Library of Congress) (page images at HathiTrust)
L'oeuvre géographique du Prince de Bismarck (1862-1890) (Institut géographique de Paris, 1890), by Ludovic Drapeyron and J. A. Ricaud (page images at HathiTrust)
Prosperity and politics. (Kensington Publishing Company, 1893), by Allen Ripley Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward; reminiscences by David B. Parker, second lieutenant, Seventy-second New York, detailed superintendent of the mails of the Army of the Potomac, United States marshal, district of Virginia, chief post office inspector. (Small, Maynard, 1912), by David B. Parker and Torrance Parker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Political manual, 1880. ([n.p], 1880), by Stilson Hutchins (page images at HathiTrust)
Stephen M. White : Californian, citizen, lawyer, senator. His life and his work. A character sketch, by Leroy E. Mosher. Together with his principal public addresses, compiled by Robert Woodland Gates. (Times-Mirror Co., 1903), by Stephen Mallory White, Leroy E. Mosher, and Robert Woodland Gates (page images at HathiTrust)
Forty years of oratory; Daniel Voorhees lectures, addresses and speeches (The Bowen-Merrill company, 1898), by Daniel Wolsey Voorhees (page images at HathiTrust)
The theory of our national existence, as shown by the action of the government of the United States since 1861. (Little, Brown and Company, 1881), by John C. Hurd (page images at HathiTrust)
My day and generation (A.C. McClurg & Co., 1908), by Clark E. Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika (R. Oldenbourg, 1893), by Friedrich Ratzel (page images at HathiTrust)
Sketches of my own times (The Bobbs-Merrill company, 1903), by David Turpie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The great republic. (Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1884), by Lepel Henry Griffin (page images at HathiTrust)
Political oratory of Emery A. Storrs. From Lincoln to Garfield. (Belford, Clarke & Co., 1888), by Emery A. Storrs and Isaac E. Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
Republiken och dess institutioner : jemte Konstitutionen i öfversättning. (Engberg-Holmberg Pub. Co., 1891), by C. F. Peterson (page images at HathiTrust)
The great battle for protection and sound money led by Hon. Wm. McKinley ... (Edgewood Pub. Co., 1897), by Murat Halstead and Melville Phillips (page images at HathiTrust)
The return of the Democratic Party to power in 1884 (New York, 1919), by Harrison Cook Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Speeches and addresses of William E. Russell. (Little, Brown, and Co., 1894), by William E. Russell and Charles Theodore Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
In memoriam. Thomas Allen Jenckes. Born November 2, 1818. Died November 4, 1875. ([Providence?, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Recollections, 1828-1911 (J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1911), by Edwin A. Merritt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The American commonwealth : in three volumes (Macmillan and co., 1888), by James Bryce (page images at HathiTrust)
Twelve years of national administration, 1888 to 1900-the fallacies of W.J. Bryan exposed. Speech of Hon. Charles N. Fowler, of New Jersey, in the House of Representatives, Saturday, June 2, 1900. ([Washington, D.C., 1900), by Charles N. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
Roscoe Conkling vindicated : his controversy with Mr. Blaine--1866, his resignation from the Senate and the causes that led to it, 1881 ([s.n.], 1888), by George C. Gorham (page images at HathiTrust)
Ekkoes from Kentucky : bein a perfect record uv the ups, downs, and experiences uv the dimocrisy ez seen by a naturalized Kentuckian (Lee and Shepard, 1888), by David Ross Locke and Thomas Nast (page images at HathiTrust)
Political problems; essays on questions of the day (Californian Publishing Co., 1892), by Lyman Allen (page images at HathiTrust)
Complete orations and speeches (South-West Pub. Co., 1910), by Henry Woodfin Grady (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The life of William McKinley (Houghton Mifflin company, 1916), by Charles Sumner Olcott (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Duplicate copy of the souvenir from the Afro-American league of Tennessee to Hon. James M. Ashley of Ohio ... (Publishing house of the A. M. E. church, 1894), by James Mitchell Ashley, Benjamin William Arnett, and Afro-American league of Tennessee (page images at HathiTrust)
The return of the Democratic party to power in 1884 (New York, 1919), by Harrison Cook Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
The great usurpation. (R. H. Darby, printer, 1880), by Republican congressional committee (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal recollections of John M. Palmer; the story of an earnest life. (The R. Clarke company, 1901), by John McAuley Palmer (page images at HathiTrust)
The words of James G. Blaine on the issues of the day. (D. L. Guernsey, 1884), by James Gillespie Blaine and Walter Scott Vail (page images at HathiTrust)
Autobiography of John B. Weber. (J.W. Clement Co., 1924), by John B. Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
Memorial addresses on the life and character of Samuel T. Baird (late a representative from Louisiana, delivered in the House of Representatives and Senate, fifty-sixth Congress, first session. (Govt. Print. Off., 1900), by 1st sess. United States. 56th Cong. (page images at HathiTrust)
The new economic order. Part 1: The new South (Yale university press; [etc.,etc., 1926), by Holland Thompson and Solon J. Buck (page images at HathiTrust)
In memoriam. Thomas Allen Jenckes. ([Providence?, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
[Republican campaign documents, 1900. (v. p., 1900) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Political discussions, legislative, diplomatic, and popular 1856-1886 (The Henry Bill publishing company, 1887), by James Gillespie Blaine (page images at HathiTrust)
National problems, 1885-1897. (Greenwood Press, 1968), by Davis Rich Dewey (page images at HathiTrust)
Through five administrations : reminiscences of Colonel William H. Crook, body-guard to President Lincoln, comp. and ed. by Margarita Spalding Gerry ... (Harper & brothers, 1910), by William Henry Crook and Margarita Gerry (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Proceedings at the thirteenth annual dinner of the Republican Club of the City of New York : celebrated at Delmonico's, the ninetieth anniversary of the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, Monday, February 13th, 1899. (Beeken & Leavens, 1899), by Republican Club of the City of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
William McKinley (Houghton Mifflin company, 1916), by Charles S. Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
Life and speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan / illustrated. (R.H. Woodward, 1900), by William Jennings Bryan and Mary Baird Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
Reden, Abhandlungen und Briefe (E. Steiger, 1893), by J. B. Stallo (page images at HathiTrust)
A handbook of politics for 1872- 1894 : being a record of important political action, legislative and executive, national and state. (Robert Beall, 1872), by Edward McPherson (page images at HathiTrust)
The return of the Democratic Party to power in 1884. (AMS Press, 1969), by Harrison Cook Thomas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Three essentials to national perpetuity and power a free ballot, a free school, a free church : a discourse delivered in Calvary Baptist Church, New York, on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 27, 1890 (E. Scott, 1890), by Robert Stuart MacArthur (page images at HathiTrust)
Presidents of the United States, from Pierce to McKinley (Linscott Pub. Co., 1903), by Thomas Guthrie Marquis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
The new America a study of the imperial republic (Chapman & Hall, 1903), by Beckles Willson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
Popular perils : cabin home papers. (Geo. A. Miller, Printer, 1892), by Leonard Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
Men and measures of half a century : sketches and comments (Scribner, 1900), by Hugh McCulloch (page images at HathiTrust)
The return of the Democratic Party to power in 1884 (Columbia University; [etc., etc.], 1919), by Harrison Cook Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
Report of the proceedings of the Harvard Republican Meeting : held at Tremont Temple, Boston, Friday evening, November 2, 1888. (W.H. Wheeler, printer, 1889), by Harvard Republican Meeting (1888 : Boston) and Republican Club of Harvard University (page images at HathiTrust)
William McKinley (Houghton, Mifflin, 1916), by Charles Summer Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
Our national government (Perry Mason, 1904) (page images at HathiTrust)
A Chautauqua boy in '61 and afterward ; reminiscences (Small, Maynard and company, 1912), by David Bigelow Parker (page images at HathiTrust)
Municipal ownership and the war on wealth ([Brooklyn daily eagle], 1899), by William H. Muldoon (page images at HathiTrust)
Personal recollections of notable people at home and abroad. (Dodd Mead, 1895), by Charles K. Tuckerman (page images at HathiTrust)
Letters, speeches and addresses of August Belmont ... (Priv. Print., 1890), by August Belmont (page images at HathiTrust)
Grant's campaign of 1872 : Pamphlets. ([publisher not identified], 1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Political speeches of Hon. Geo. F. Hoar. ([publisher not identified], 1869), by George Frisbie Hoar (page images at HathiTrust)
Financial and political affairs of the country. Being a series of communications on various topics, to the "Hudson gazette," during the years 1876-79. (Printed by M.P. Williams, 1879), by John F. Collin (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty years of public services : personal recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, senior United States senator from Illinois. With portraits. (A.C. McClurg & co., 1911), by Shelby M. Cullom (page images at HathiTrust)
Twenty years in the press gallery; a concise history of important legislation from the 48th to the 58th Congress; the part played by the leading men of that period and the interesting and impressive incidents. Impressions of official and political life in Washington (The author, Publishers printing company,printers, 1906), by Orlando Oscar Stealey (page images at HathiTrust)
The welcome home and campaign speeches of James G. Blaine : in which is a full discussion of the question of protection or free trade and the labor problem. (J.S. Ogilvie, 1888), by James Gillespie Blaine and T. De Witt Talmage (page images at HathiTrust)
Patriotic addresses (C.P. Farrell, 1895), by Robert Green Ingersoll (page images at HathiTrust)
William McKinley. (AMS Press, 1972), by Charles S. Olcott (page images at HathiTrust)
Later speeches on political questions with select controversial papers (Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1889), by George Washington Julian and Grace Giddings Julian Clarke (page images at HathiTrust)
The American policy ... : speech of Hon. Wm. McKinley, Jr., of Ohio, on the new tariff bill, in the House of Representatives, May 7, 1890. (Issued by the Home Market Club, 1890), by William McKinley and Mass.) Home Market Club (Boston (page images at HathiTrust)
Index to the executive documents of the House of Representatives for the first session of the forty-ninth Congress, 1885-'86 (G.P.O., 1886), by United States. Congress 1885-86). House (page images at HathiTrust)
Fifty Years of Public Service: Personal Recollections of Shelby M. Cullom, Senior United States Senator from Illinois, by Shelby M. Cullom (Gutenberg ebook)
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2, by George Frisbie Hoar (Gutenberg ebook)

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