Page:History of Iowa From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Volume 3.djvu/10

Chapter	Contents	Pages
	Veterans Assembled at Des Moines—The “Cardiff Giant” Deception—Opinions of Eminent Scientists—A Financial Bonanza—The Authors of the Fraud—The Great Block of Fort Dodge Gypsum—How the Deception was Discovered and Exposed—Final Confession of Hull, the Inventor of the Scheme—The Great Gypsum Quarries of Fort Dodge—Facts from the Census of 1870	33-44
IV	Political Conventions of 1871—The Republicans Successful—The Fourteenth General Assembly—The Senatorial Contest—William B. Allison Nominated Over Senator Harlan—Cyrus C. Carpenter Inaugurated Governor—Revision of the Laws—Political Conventions of 1872—Republican Candidates Elected—The Second Grasshopper Scourge—Liberal aid to the Sufferers—The Presidential Campaign of 1872—Re-election of General Grant—Defalcation of the State Treasurer—A Legislative Investigation—The Patrons of Husbandry—Their Influence in Legislation—Political Conventions of 1873—An Anti-Monopoly Party Organized—The Republicans Successful in the Election—Material Progress	45-62
V	The Fifteenth General Assembly—Contest Over Election of Speaker—Investigation of the Agricultural College—Its Management Vindicated—A Bill Passed Regulating Railroad Charges—The Burlington Railway Resists the Enforcement of the Law—Judge Dillon of the U. S. Circuit Court Sustains the Law—A Decision of Vast Importance—Political Conventions of 1875—Kirkwood Again Nominated for Governor—The Republican Candidates Elected—Governor Kirkwood Chosen United States Senator—Temperance State Convention—Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee at Des Moines—Distinguished Generals in Attendance—General Grant’s Famous Speech—Misrepresentation and Controversy Finally Settled—Political Conventions of 1876—Result of the Presidential Election in Doubt—George W. McCrary of Iowa Frames a Bill which Settles the Controversy	63-84