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ITEM 10 · THE RECORD'S OWN CLOSE, RUN AS ORDERED
The checklist closes the leg with two questions — was the name ever fought, and which of the era's stock fights does this town's record simply not carry — and Walkerton's answers are of a piece with this section. The name: Walkerton's name was never fought.The uncarried fights: assembled from this section's articles — no courthouse fight (the county seat was never this town's to contest), no draft riot, no incorporation violence, no demolition rescue, no refused hall, no textbook suit, no pay-to-play scandal; the fights the record DOES carry are the quiet ones this section and its neighbors print at their sizes — petitions refused and renewed, a judge admonished, a defalcation prosecuted in its own file, wards redrawn and a council president beaten in a primary. The close is this section's thesis: Walkerton's civic-fight record is thin because its civic life was mostly conducted inside the paperwork — and a fights leg that prints the paperwork, tests the stock classes one by one, and refuses to import the county's brawls is the honest size of it.
Principal sources: this section's articles above; The Story of Walkerton (the name); Government and Walkerton Today (the fights the record carries).