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Bourbon Democracy in Alabama, 1874-1890 Library of Alabama Classics
author
:
Going, Allen Johnston.
publisher
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University of Alabama Press
isbn10 | asin
:
0817305807
print isbn13
:
9780817305802
ebook isbn13
:
9780585270753
language
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English
subject
Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950.
publication date
:
1992
lcc
:
F326.G65 1992eb
ddc
:
976.1/061
subject
:
Alabama--Politics and government--1865-1950.
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Bourbon Democracy in Alabama 18741890
Page ii
The Library of Alabama Classics, reprint editions of works important to the history, literature, and culture of Alabama, is dedicated to the memory of Rucker Agee whose pioneering work in the fields of Alabama history and historical geography continues to be the standard of scholarly achievement.
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Bourbon Democracy in Alabama 18741890
Allen Johnston Going With a New Foreword by the Author
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Copyright 1951, 1992 The University of Alabama Press Tuscaloosa, Alabama 354870380
All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Going, Allen Johnston, 1917 Bourbon democracy in Alabama, 18741890 / Allen Johnston Going: with a new foreword by the author. p. cm. (Library of Alabama classics) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8173-0580-7 1. AlabamaPolitics and government18651950. I. Title. II. Series. F326.G65 1992 976.1'061dc20 91-35780 CIP
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
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Contents
Maps and Charts
vi
Foreword
vii
Preface
xvii
One Introduction: Party Politics During Radical Reconstruction
1
Two The Overthrow of Radical Reconstruction
9
Three Organization and Operation of the Democratic Party
27
Four Threats to Democratic Supremacy
41
Five Debt Adjustment
61
Six State Finances
79
Seven Agricultural Problems
92
Eight Business and Industrial Policies
109
Nine The State and Railroads
126
Ten Public Education
147
Eleven Penal System
170
Twelve The State and Social Welfare
191
Thirteen Conclusion
207
Appendix
213
Bibliography
233
Index
247
Page vi
Maps and Charts
State Tax Rate and Assessed Valuations
84
Receipts and Disbursements of the State Government
84
Railroads in Alabama, 1882
128
Political Parties Represented in the Legislature
214
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Foreword
References to a book as a "pioneering study" and a "classic" give the author pause for thought. My thoughts go back to the 1940s when I first began to investigate seriously the post-Reconstruction era in Alabama. At that time no study focused on the years between ''Redemption" and the turbulent nineties, and only a few studies dealt with certain aspects of the period.
These years fell between two exciting and controversial eras in Alabama, and each had been treated in published doctoral dissertations. Walter L. Fleming's Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama (1905) has often been labeled one of the best in the "Dunning school" state studies, all of which treated Reconstruction from a southern perspective. John B. Clark in Populism in Alabama (1927) devoted approximately the first third of his book to the period from 1874 to 1890 with emphasis on agrarian grievances and organizations. Albert B. Moore's
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