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Chapter VII. 



ANALYSIS OF THE ELECTION RETURNS FOR PRESIDENTIAL ELECT- 

 ORS^ MEMBERS OF CONGRESS^ AND GOVERNORS OF THE STATE. 



Since it lias been shown in the preceding chapters that the 

 towns of the county in which the native born predominate show 

 an increase in population and wealth, while those towns settled 

 by the foreign born, chiefly Germans, English and Irish, show 

 a marked decline in population and a decrease in wealth, it 

 becomes an interesting and an important feature of this study 

 to investigate the political associations of the people of each 

 town and group of towns. 



To consider the votes of the towns for one or two elections 

 would be inaccurate and useless, on accoimt of the manv local 

 and personal considerations brought to bear in every election. 

 These influences, however, may be eliminated by combining the 



Table 12. — Combined vote for presidential electors^ congressmen^ 



and governors^ 1859-1900.* 



Republican. 



Vote. 



Kenosha county 

 Kenosha city ... 



Brighton 



Bristol 



Paris 



Pleasant Prairie 



Randall 



Salem 



Somers 



Wheatland 



67,532 

 25,188 

 2,868 

 7,273 

 3,740 

 7,135 

 3,329 

 8,311 

 8,011 

 2,677 



Per cent, 

 of total. 



55 

 49 

 35 

 75 

 49 

 58 

 66 

 66 

 68 

 38 



Democratic. 



Vote, 



56,352 

 25,941 

 5,221 

 2,360 

 3,910 

 5,035 

 1,699 

 4,335 

 3,662 

 4,084 



Per cent- 

 of total. 



45 

 51 

 65 

 25 



51 

 42 

 34 

 34 

 32 

 62 



'These figuresi are taken from the Wisconsin Blue Books. 



