It had always been Democratic.

The governor had always been a Democrat, and had named his township after Thomas H.Benton; but now he was the big gun of the new Republican Party in our neck of the woods, and he invited all the people who he thought would be good wheel-horses.
You will wonder how I came to be invited.

Well, it was this way.

I called on Judge Stone at the new court-house, the building of which created such a scandal.

He was county treasurer.