Once what was called the Cow Vandemark crowd got control and kept it for years by calling the township meetings always on our own side of the slew; and then Foster Blake sneaked in a full attendance on us when we weren't looking by piling a couple of my haystacks in the trail to drive on, and it was five years before we got it back.

But in the meantime we had voted taxes on them to build some schoolhouses and roads.

That was local politics in Iowa when Ring was a pup.
But Governor Wade's party was not local politics, or so N.V.

Creede tells me.

He says that this was one of the moves by which the governor made Monterey County Republican.