A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              144 HISTORY OF WAUPACA COUNTY
party made serious objections to such proceedings, for the reason that, they had already selected several of the candidates, but they were willing that we should name the persons to (ill out the rest of the ticket. This w^as not satisfactory to us, and having a majority of more thaiutwo to cue we assumed the right to dictate the whole matter and make tickets to suit ourselves.
"On their ticket Air. Davis was chairman of supervisors, and James Smiley, register of deeds. These we ignored entirely but adopted some of the other nominations they had made.
"After completing the nominations, w^e proceeded to chose inspectors and clerks of election. For inspectors Avere chosen G. W. Taggart, chair¬ man, John W. Chandler and Tyler Caldwell; for clerks, William G. Cooper and Simon C. Dow. To be fully equipped for business we carried wdth us a ballot box and a pamphlet copy of election laws; but we found that Air. Davis had also prepared a ballot box, one for the town and one for the county election.
"Another proclamation was made declaring the polls open. The first man that offered his vote was Hiram P. Sexton, of Lind, which w^as promptly clTallenged by one of the Aiukwa party. Air. Sexton promptly took the necessary oath, the vote was received, and, though some of the disappointed candidates were rather cross and sour, there w^as no further trouble.
'' There was one occurrence during the forenoon that offered con¬ siderable amusement to some of the party. Air. Davis in preparing to open the polls had his statute lying on the table; the pamphlet law we had carried was there also. In the course of business a legal question arose, and we proposed to refer to the law; but neither the statute nor the pamphlet could be found. One of the bystanders had seen Air. Davis carry away the statute with tlie pamphlet inside of it. No one supposed any wrong was intended, and a man w^as requested to step into the store am] ask Air. Davis for it. He did so and came back with a reply that was neither courteous nor civil. There was no great excitement, but the wliole board of inspectors rose to their feet and leaving the ballot boxes in charge of the clerks, walked into the store followed by ten or a dozen men. The chairman, as spokesman, promptly informed Air. Davis that it might be conducive to the safety of himself and his premises to pro¬ duce that pamphlet law. After looking the crowd over he quietly went behind the counter, took the book from under a bale of goods and handed it over.
"After this everything went smoothly until night, wdien it was dis¬ covered that we had failed to vote for any clerk of the board of super¬ visors.   It was proposed to elect Air. Smiley for the office and two persons