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Table VIII. — Continued. 



Note. — The general confusion due to the enlistment of troops and the prosecution of the 

 war diverted the attention of the people from the great issues at stake when the election 

 for members of a constitutional convention occurred in November, 1881. But little at. 

 tention was paid to the selection of delegates, and the result was that of the seventy- 

 five members elected, the Democrats, whose leading men were watchful of their advan- 

 tage secured forty-five, and the Republicans only twenty-one, while seven were classed 

 as f usionists, and two as doubtful. The constitution evolved by this convention received 

 125,052 votes in favor of its adoption, and 141, 103 votes against its adoption. (See Elec- 

 tion Returns, No. 3, page 1, Office of Secretary of State, Springfield, lU.) The result in 

 Jo Daviess County is given in detail in the table (Column 4). 



