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Table III. — Yotes in vresidential elections 1S60-06. Gubernatorial elec- 

 tions of 185^ and 1857. 



If we examine these votes bv townsMps^ ^ye shall find that 

 only one of them, Taylor, goes Eepnblican from 1852 to 1896, 

 and that three, Dodge, Cascade and Whitewater, are divided, 

 usually going Democratic. The rest of the county is Demo- 

 cratic by large majorities. 



In the votes of the lead producing area we can see the opposi- 

 tion of the river element to the policy of prohibition, important 

 for a part of this period in the Eepublican party. There is 

 here, too, plainly enough the influence of the South on the river 

 towns. Groups I and II show a greater fluctuation in their 

 Democratic majorities than does the third group. 



In summarizing the conclusions so far reached we may say 

 that the lead region of Dubuque County had at first a very rapid 

 growth in numbers and in wealth, but as the mines gave out the 

 people of enterprise began to move away, so that today the reg- 

 ion is not so prosperous as formerly. The city of Dubuque, in- 

 deed, took its rise from the lead trade, but as this occupation de- 



1 See Api)endix D, table IV. 



