Identifier: illustratedhisto1876tutt (find matches)
Title: An illustrated history of the State of Iowa : being a complete civil, political, and military history of the state, from its first exploration down to 1875; including a cyclopaedia of legislation during the administration of each of the governors, from Lucas (1836) to Carpenter; with historical and descriptive sketches of each county in the state separately, embracing interesting narratives of pioneer life, including an account of the commercial, agricultural and educational growth of Iowa
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Tuttle, Charles R. (Charles Richard), b. 1848 Durrie, Daniel S. (Daniel Steele), 1819-1892
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: Chicago : Richard S. Peale & Company
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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i Valleyand the Atlantic Ocean, and the improvement to the Fox andWisconsin rivers. The election in 1870 was for members of congress, judges ofthe supreme court, and the state executive officers with the ex-ception of governor, who held over till January, 1872. The democratic convention took place at Des Moines on the10th of August and nominated the following ticket: for secre-tary of state, Charles Dorr, of Polk county; for auditor, W. N.Garner, of Louisa county; for treasurer, W. C. James, of Potta-wattamie county; for attorney general, H. M. Martin, of Scottcounty. The republican convention assembled on the 17th of Augustat Des Moines. The ticket put in nomination was as follows:judges of the supreme court, Chester C. Cole, William E. Millerand James G. Day ; secretary of state, Edward Wright; auditor,John Russell; treasurer, Samuel E. Rankin; register of stateland office, Aaron Brown ; attorney general, Henry OConnor. The election took place on the 11th of October, and resulted in
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354 TuTTLifs History of Iowa. the choice of the republican candidates by large majorities. Thetotal vote for secretary of state was 164,265, of which E. Wrightreceived 103,377 and C. Dorr, 60,888, making the majority of theformer, 42,489. The proposition for a convention to revise thestate constitution was voted down, 82,039 to 24,846. The follow-ing members of congress, all republicans, were elected: Geo. W.McCrary, Aylett R Cotton, Wm. P. Wolf, Wm. G. Donnan,Madison M. Walden, Francis W. Palmer and Jackson Orr. In the year 1871 the political canvass was attended with verylittle excitement, there being no special question at issue, and itbeing certain that the republicans would carry the state elections.The democratic convention was held at Des Moines on the 14thof June, when the following nominations were made: for gov-ernor, J. C. Knapp, of Van Buren county; for lieutenant gov-ernor, M. M. Hamm, of Dubuque; for superintendent of publicinstruction, E. M. Mumm, of Lee; for judge of t

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