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votes for the candidates of the leading political parties, respect- 

 ively, for a series of vears. Table 12 shows the combined re- 

 suit of all the votes cast in the county, city of Kenosha, and in 

 each town for the Republican and Democratic candidates for 

 presidential electors, members of congress, and governors from 

 1859 to 1900, with the exception of a few elections of member 

 of congress and governor, for which it was impossible to obtain 

 the election returns bv towns. From this table it is seen at 

 once that the strength of the Republican party is in the towns 

 of Bristol, Somers, Salem, and Randall, while that of the Dem- 

 ocratic party is in the towns of Brighton, Wheatland, Paris, 

 Pleasant Prairie, and in the City of Kenosha. The strongest 

 republican town in the county is Bristol and the strongest dem- 

 ocratic town is Brighton. Seventy-five per cent, of the com- 

 bined vote of the former from 1859 to 1900 was cast with the 

 Republican party, while 65 per cent, of the total vote for the 

 same period in the latter to^^m was cast with the Democratic 

 party. 



On referring to table 9 of the Appendix it will be seen that 

 in not a sin2:le election did the town of Bristol s^o democratic or 

 the town of Brighton republican. The to\\Tis of Salem and 

 Somers have gone republican in every election, and the town of 

 Wheatland has gone democratic in every election except in the 

 last congressional election when the election was a tie, and in 

 the last two presidential elections, in which the Republican can- 

 didate received a slight majority. These facts are very im- 

 portant when the measures advocated by these two parties dur- 

 ing this series of years, are considered. 



By combining the votes cast in the inland towns of the county 

 into the same groups, which were used in the chapter on the 



Table 13 — Vote for presidential electors, congressmen and gover- 

 nors, 1859-1900} 



Republican. 



Group I. 

 Group II. 



Vote. 



9.2?5 

 18,913 



Per cent, 

 of total. 



41 

 69 



Democratic. 



Vote. 



13,215 

 8,394 



Per cent, 

 of total. 



59 

 31 



^Vote of county, city and lake shore towns not included. 



