The  time  for  the  general  election  was  drawing
near,  and  the  county  commissioners  issued  a  proclama-
tion calling  an  election  for  the  election  of  county
officers,  and  for  the  location  of  a  permanent  county
seat.  The  election  was  to  be  held  at  the  time  pro-
vided by  statute,  which  was  on  the  fourteenth  day
of  October.  Notices  were  duly  posted  by  the  sheriff
in  all  the  precincts  of  the  county.  Two  mass  conven-
tions were  called  in  the  county,  one  at  Beaver  City  and
the  other  at  Arapahoe,  both  called  Republican  con-
ventions, but  in  fact  the  party  lines  were  not  drawn.
The  Democrats  and  a  few  scattering  "greenbackers"
affiliated  with  the  Republicans,  probably  for  the  good
of  the  country,  but  really  the  only  division  was  for
the  location  of  the  county  seat.  The  convention  at
Arapahoe  nominated  a  full  ticket,  composed  of  men
who  were  favorable  to  the  location  of  the  county  seat
at  Arapahoe,  while  the  convention  held  at  Beaver
City  nominated  candidates  who  were  just  as  positively
in  favor  of  the  county  seat  being  located  permanently
at  Beaver  City.  It  was  not  politics,  it  was  not  the
drawing  of  party  lines  that  entered  into  the  campaign,
but  the  location  of  the  county  seat  was  the  paramount
issue.  Both  sets  of  candidates  were  good  men  so  far
as  was  known,  but  the  officers  elected  would  have
much  to  do  with  the  location  of  the  permanent  county
seat.
