. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . disgusted with the intimidation work of the previous month. Orderwas kept until a negro tried to vote the Democratic ticket and wasdiscovered and mobbed by other blacks. The whites tried to protecthim and some negro fired a shot. Then the riot began. The fewwhites were heavily armed and the negroes also. The deputies, itwas said, lost their heads and fired indiscriminately. When the fightwas over it was found that ten whites were wounded, and four negroeskilled and sixty wounded. The Federal troops came leisurely in after1 Coburn Report, pp. 125, 530
. Civil war and reconstruction in Alabama . disgusted with the intimidation work of the previous month. Orderwas kept until a negro tried to vote the Democratic ticket and wasdiscovered and mobbed by other blacks. The whites tried to protecthim and some negro fired a shot. Then the riot began. The fewwhites were heavily armed and the negroes also. The deputies, itwas said, lost their heads and fired indiscriminately. When the fightwas over it was found that ten whites were wounded, and four negroeskilled and sixty wounded. The Federal troops came leisurely in after1 Coburn Report, pp. 125, 530. THE ELECTION OF 1874 795 it was over, and surrounded the polls. The course of the Federaltroops in Eufaula was much as it was elsewhere. They camped somedistance from the polls, and when their aid was demanded by theRepublicans the captain either directly refused to interfere, or con-sulted his orders or his telegrams or his law dictionary. At last heoffered to notify the white men wanted by the marshal to meet thelatter and be Another commander,who took possession ofthe polls in Opelikain order to prevent ariot, was censured byGeneral McDowell,the department com-mander. The troopswere weary of suchwork, and their ordersfrom General McDow-ell were very the election, aswas to be expected,an outcry arose fromthe Radicals that thetroops had in evetycase failed to do theirduty. When the voteswere counted, it ap-peared that the Demo-crats had had 107,118 votes to 93,928 for Lewis. Two years before Herndon (Democrat)had received 81,371 votes to 89,868 for Lewis. The presidentialcampaign in 1872 had assisted Lewis. Grant ran far ahead of theRadical state ticket. The legislature of 1874-1875 was to be com-posed as follows: Senate, 13 Republicans (of whom 6 were negroes) 1 Coburn Report, pp. xix, 43. 8o-84, 427. 434. 476. 794. 85°. 851. 949. 1200-1204;Tuskegee Neivs, Nov. 5, 1874; State Journal, Oct. and Nov., 1874. DliECTION OF 1871 FOR OOVEB
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