In the west Cleveland's administration was accepted by many demo-

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

crats as an abject surrender to Wall street. Yet, the moneyed east was demanding the return of republicans to power. So strong was this force being brought to bear that Win. H. Wright wrote the engineer, A. P. Mitchell, that he was going to vote the republican ticket as the chance to get eastern money to finish the Farmers canal, and the letter was given publication in local republican papers.

The election of November 6, 1895, was the fore-runner of the, great battle of the ballots of 1896. There were ten candidates for regents of the state university. H. L. Gould and C. H. Morrill easily carried Scotts Bluff county and were elected by the state. None of the other eight candidates received 100 votes in the county while the Gould and Morrill vote was over 200. H. M. Grimes and William Neville divided honors for district judge the vote being 220 to 219. Grimes was elected and began his twenty-five year period in that capacity, which ended only with his recent death. Neville also some years since went to his great judgment bar.

In this election of 1895 the republicans had the best of it in Scotts Bluff county. They elected all but surveyor and commissioner. A. B. McCoskey, democrat, was chosen surveyor over Ed. Scriven by a, close vote: 209 to 201. There were three candidates for commissioner: Matt Schumacher, republican; F. J. Irvine, democrat ; and Chas. Fowler, peoples independent. The latter was elected, defeating Schumacher by 11 votes, and Irvine by 23. For clerk, C. W. Ford ; for treasurer, C. B. Whipple: for judge, Geo. W. King; for superintendent, L. L. Raymond ; and for coroner, Dr. Jos. H. Miller, were elected by large maporities.