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 . ected. The convention then nominated the following candidates forstate officers: Secretary of state, Co
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 . ected. The convention then nominated the following candidates forstate officers: Secretary of state, Col. S. Gr. Yan Amanda;treasurer, Gen. Greo. A. Stone; auditor, Capt. E. W. Cross; regis-ter, S. P. McKennie; attorney general, Capt. W. Bolinger; su-preme court reporter, Capt. J. W. Lemute; clerk, Louis Kinzey. The democratic convention met at Des Moines, on the 11th ofJuly, and adopted resolutions reaffirming adherence to democraticprinciples, in favor of the policy of president Johnson, and pledg-ing him the support of the democrats of Iowa; in favor of theimmediate admission of the rebellious states, and in favor ofunion with any body for that purpose ; in favor of the taxation ofUnited States bonds; against a tariff; in favor of the Monroedoctrine, etc. ; against the prohibitory liquor law, etc. After some discussion, the convention decided to support thecandidates nominated by the conservative republicans with theexception of those for reporter and clerk of the supreme court, in. 34:2 TuTTLBfs History of Iowa, whose places they substituted the names of T. J. Stoddard andJ. F. Grottschalk. The political canvass was conducted here as elsewhere, withgreat animation, and the election which took place on the 9th ofOctober, resulted largely in favor of the republicans. For secre-tary of state, Wright, republican candidate, received 91,227 votes,and Yan Amanda, democrat and conservative republican, 55,815;majority for Wright 35,412. The total vote, 147,124, was muchthe largest ev
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