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TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Preface
CHAPTER I
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The Republican
Convention of 1865 - Declares for Negro Suffrage - The Union
Anti-Negro Suffrage Party - The Democratic State Convention -
A Warm Canvass - Republican Ticket Elected - The State Bank
and Branches Retire from Business - The Eleventh General
Assembly - The Swamp Land Indemnity Funds Embezzled -
Legislative Investigation....... Amendments Proposed to the
Constitution - Kirkwood and Harlan Chosen United States
Senators - Geological Survey of the State - Soldiers' Orphans'
Home - The Policy of President Johnson Alienates the
Republican Party - Republican State Convention of 1866 - A
Conservative Republican Convention and Ticket - Democratic
State Convention Indorses the Conservative Ticket - Result of
the
Election...........................................................................
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CHAPTER II
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Financial Situation
in 1867 - Republican and Democratic Conventions of the Same
Year - Result of the Elections - The Grasshopper Scourge - The
Twelfth General Assembly - Ratification of Amendments to the
Constitution - The Impeachment of President Johnson - Senator
James W. Grimes on Impeachment........ Political Conventions
of 1868 - Result of the Elections - Legislative Control of
Railroad Charges - Opening of the State Agricultural College -
Railroad Building in Iowa and the Land Grants - Convention to
Promote a Water Route from the Lakes to the Mississippi -
Political Conventions of 1869 - Republican Ticket Elected -
The Thirteenth General Assembly - Wright and Howell Chosen
United States Senators - Important Acts of Legislation -
Crocker County Created and the Act Declared Void by the
Supreme Court........................... 17 - 32 |
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CHAPTER III
| Political Conventions of 1870 - Result of the
Elections - Great Reunion of Iowa Soldiers - 20,000 Veterans
Assembled at Des Moines - The "Cardiff Giant" Deception -
Opinions of Eminent Scientists - A Financial Bonanza - The
Authors of the Fraud - The Great Block of Fort Dodge Gypsum -
How the Deception was Discovered and Exposed - Final
Confession of Hull, the Inventor of the Scheme - The Great
Gypsum Quarries of Fort Dodge - Facts from the Census of
1870..................................................................................................................
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CHAPTER IV
| Political Conventions of 1871 - The
Republicans Successful - The Fourteenth General Assembly - The
Senatorial Contest - William B. Allison Nominated Over Senator
Harlan - Cyrus C. Carpenter Inaugurated Governor - Revision of
the Laws - Political Conventions of 1872 - Republican
Candidates Elected - The Second Grasshopper Scourge - Liberal
aid to the Sufferers - The Presidential Campaign of 1872 -
Reelection of General Grant - Defalcation of the State
Treasurer - A Legislative Investigation - The Patrons of
Husbandry - Their Influence in Legislation - Political
Conventions of 1873 - An Anti-Monopoly Party Organized - The
Republicans Successful in the Election - Material
Progress........ 45 - 62 |
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CHAPTER V
| The Fifteenth General Assembly - Contest Over
Election of Speaker - Investigation of the Agricultural
College - Its Management Vindicated - A Bill Passed Regulating
Railroad Charges - The Burlington Railway Resists the
Enforcement of the Law - Judge Dillon of the U. S. Circuit
Court Sustains the Law - A Decision of Vast Importance -
Political Conventions of 1875 - Kirkwood Again Nominated for
Governor - The Republican Candidates Elected - Governor
Kirkwood Chosen United States Senator - Temperance State
Convention - Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Des
Moines - Distinguished Generals in Attendance - General
Grant's Famous Speech - Misrepresentation and Controversy
Finally Settled - Political Conventions of 1876 - Result of
the Presidential Election in Doubt - George W. McCrary of Iowa
Frames a Bill which Settles the
Controversy...................................................
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CHAPTER VI
| George W. McCrary in the Cabinet - Financial
Condition of Iowa - An Important Decision of the Supreme Court
- The Political Conventions of 1877 - The Southern Policy of
President Hayes - John H. Gear Elected Governor - A Terrible
Railroad Disaster - The Seventeenth General Assembly - Repeal
of the "Granger Railroad Law" - Interesting Statistics -
Political Conventions of 1878 - Election of the Republican
Candidates - Conventions and Platforms of 1879 - Governor Gear
Re-elected - The Eighteenth General Assembly - National
Conventions of 1880............... 85 - 100 |
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CHAPTER VII
| Fencing Prairie Farms - The Invention of
Barbed Wire - Formation of the First "Trust" - A Monopoly to
Control the Manufacture and Sale of Wire Fencing - Farmers of
Iowa Organize to Resist the Monopoly - A Free Factory
Established - A Legal and Commercial Conflict - The State Aids
the Farmers - Their Final Victory - The Farmers' Alliance -
Kirkwood in the Cabinet - Assassination of President Garfield
- Political Conventions of 1881 - The First Woman Nominated
for a State Office - Buren R. Sherman Elected Governor - An
Important Decision - Heroic Deed of Kate Shelly - The
Nineteenth General Assembly - Election of United States
Senators - Free Passes for Public Officials - Prohibition
Amendment to the Constitution Adopted - Declared Void by the
Supreme Court........... 101 - 117 |
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CHAPTER VIII
| The Great Tornado of 1882 - Destruction of
Life and Property in its Track - Scenes in the City of
Grinnell - Iowa College in Ruins - Seventy Persons Killed and
Hundreds Wounded - Political Conventions of 1882 - A Rehearing
of the Validity of the Constitutional Amendment - Former
Decision Affirmed - Conventions and Elections of 1883 -
Serious Damage to Orchards - The Twentieth General Assembly
Meets in the New State House - The Dedication - Amendments to
the Prohibitory Liquor Laws - Elections of 1884 - Removal of
the Auditor of State.................. 119 - 133
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CHAPTER IX
| Political Conventions of 1885 - The
Twenty-first General Assembly - Attempts to Impeach Auditor
Brown - He is Found Not Guilty - Reinstated in Office -
Conventions and Elections of 1886 - Assassination of Reverend
George C. Haddock - Interesting Statistics - The Drive Well
Conflict - Important Decisions - The Twenty-second General
Assembly - Governor Larrabee's Powerful Argument for
Legislative Control of Railroads - The Legislature Responds
with a Comprehensive Law - Political Conventions and Elections
of 1888 - The Campaign of 1889 - Horace Boies, Democrat,
Elected
Governor....................................................................
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CHAPTER X
| The Twenty-third General Assembly - Contest
for Speaker - The Last Message of Governor Larrabee - The
Political Conventions of 1890 - The Republicans Elect State
Officers - The Democrats Elect a Majority of Representatives
in Congress - Convention and Election of 1891 - The Democrats
Secure all of the State Officers and Half of the Senators -
The Twenty-fourth General Assembly - The Campaign of 1892 -
The Democrats Elect the President - The Republicans Carry Iowa
for President and State Officers - The Columbian Exposition of
1893 - The Tornado of 1893 - The Town of Pomeroy Destroyed -
Incidents of the Calamity - Generous Aid for the
Sufferers............................... 157 - 170
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CHAPTER XI
| Political Conventions of 1893 - Frank D.
Jackson Elected Governor - Expenditures for State Institutions
- The Drought of 1894 - Financial Distress - The "Commonweal
Armies" - Political Conventions and Elections of 1894 - The
Twenty-fifth General Assembly - Saloons Legalized - Dedication
of the Spirit Lake Monument - Political Conventions and
Election of 1895 - General F. M. Drake Elected Governor - The
Twenty-sixth General Assembly - Trans-Mississippi Exposition
at Omaha - The Semi-Centennial of Iowa Statehood - Terrible
Railroad Collision at Logan..... 171 - 186 |
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CHAPTER XII
| Two Iowa Candidates for President - The
political Conventions for 1896 - Results of the Elections -
Extra Session of the Legislature - The Code - James Wilson in
the Cabinet - Conventions and Elections of 1897 - Leslie M.
Shaw chosen Governor - The Twenty-seventh General Assembly -
A State Board of Control - War with Spain - Legislature
Appropriates $500,000 for War purposes - Three Iowa Regiments
Called For - One Regiment Sent to the Philippine Islands -
Progress of the War - Conventions and Elections of 1898 - Cold
Winter of 1898-99 - Great Destruction of Fruit Trees, Vines
and Forests - Conventions and Elections of 1899 - Twenty-eight
General Assembly - Political Conventions and Election of 1900
- Dedication of the Floyd Monument - Political Conventions and
Election of 1901 - Albert B. Cummins Chosen Governor -
Twenty-ninth General Assembly - Jonathan P. Dolliver United
States Senator
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CHAPTER XIII
| Des Moines River Land Grant of 1846 -
Decisions as to its Extent - Opinion of the Secretary of the
Treasury in 1849 - Opinion of Secretary Ewing in 1850 -
Opinion of the Attorney-General in 1851 - Lands Conveyed to
the Des Moines Navigation and Railroad Company - Opinion of
the Attorney-General in 1856 - Failure of the Navigation
Company to Prosecute the Work - Unearned Land Granted to the
Keokuk, Des Moines and Minnesota Railroad Company - Another
Opinion from an Attorney-General in 1859 - First Decision of
the Supreme Court of the United States in 1859 - Settlement on
the River Lands - Valid Titles Promised to Settlers - Act of
Congress of 1861 - Decision of the Secretary of the Interior
in 1862 - Another Decision of the Supreme Court Reversing its
Former Opinion.................. 215 - 227 |
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CHAPTER XIV
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The Walcott
Decision as Understood by the Secretary of the Interior - The
Herbert Battin Case - Settlers Authorized to Take
Pre-exemptions and Homesteads on River Lands - The Welles-Riley
Case Before the Courts - United States Patent Set Aside -
Settlers Driven from Their Homes by United States Marshals -
The "Settlers Union" Organized - Action of Congress in the
Premises - A State Commission Appointed - Action of the
National Commission - The Orr Indemnity Bill Passes the House
- Defeated in the Senate - The Crilly Patent Ignored - Further
Action by Congress and the President - Another Supreme Court
Decision Against the Settlers - Indemnity Finally Granted by
Congress................ 229 - 247 |
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CHAPTER XV
| Progress of Women in the Nineteenth Century -
Early Work and Workers - Equal Rights Convention - Women in
the Anti-Slavery Times - Legislation Relating to Suffrage -
First Women Office Holders - Laws Relating to Property Rights
of Women - Recent Workers in the Suffrage Cause - Women's
Clubs - Their Influence - State Federation of Women's
Clubs.....................................................................................
249 - 262 |
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CHAPTER XVI
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Brief Sketch of
Early Education in Iowa - Statistics Showing the Development
of the Public School System - Free Text Books and Compulsory
Education - Denominational Colleges - The State University -
State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts - Experimental
Station - State Normal School - The Penitentiaries - Four
Hospitals for Insane - School for the Deaf - Institution for
Feeble-Minded Children - Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls
- Soldiers' Orphans' Home - State Board of Control - State
Historical Society - Historical Department - Grand Army of the
Republic - State Agricultural Society - State Horticultural
Society - Pioneer Lawmakers Association - Statistics from the
Census.263 - 290 |
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