Excerpt from An Illustrated History of Nobles County, Minnesota Passing of Pioneer - Prohibitionists Enter Politics - Election of 1875-big Vote in ibm - Hayes Carries County Republican Split in 1877 - Peculiar Conditions That Year - Result in Giving Democrats a Few Ott'ices - Only One Ticket in 1878 Excitin-g Contests of 1879 - Republicans Belt and Fuse With Democrats - Republi can Ticket Defea-ted - Spectacular Contests 'f0r Sheriff, Auditor and Treasurer Tie for Sheriff - Dramatic Scene When Lots are Drawn - Court Decides Two Contests - Garfield (lets Majority in lsso - Republican County Ticket Elected Democrats and anti-ring Republicans Combine in lssl - Crushing Defeat of Republican Ticket - Little Interest in 1882 - Fusion Forces Name Part of Ticket in 1883 - And Elect It - Blaine Carries County in 1884 - New Element Enters Poli tics - Antagonism Between East and West Ends - Big Vote of 1886 - Republicans Elect Majority of Ticket 13. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.