- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index
1875: Democratic Victory
1875: Democratic Victory
- Chapter:
- (p.181) 22 1875: Democratic Victory
- Source:
- Reminiscences of an Active Life
- Author(s):
John Roy Lynch
, John Hope Franklin- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
This chapter looks at the Democratic victory in 1875. Although as a result of the sanguinary revolution in 1875 there was no hope or prospect of future Republican success in Mississippi, the Republican leaders in that state did not abandon their efforts to bring about and reestablish friendly relations between Senator Alcorn and Governor Ames. With that end in view, both were made delegates to the National Republican Convention of 1876 from the state at large. But this failed to accomplish the purpose desired. When the newly elected legislature met the first Monday in January of 1876, the fact was developed that the Lamar faction was slightly in the ascendancy in the Democratic party. This, of course, resulted in the election of Mr. L. Q. C. Lamar to the United States Senate to succeed Senator Alcorn whose term would expire on March 4, 1877.
Keywords: Democratic party, Republican party, Mississippi, Republican leaders, 1876 National Republican Convention, legislature, L. Q. C. Lamar, United States Senate
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- Title Pages
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Frontispiece
- Preface
-
1 His Father’s Keeping -
2 Into Bondage Again -
3 The War Came -
4 Confederate Looting -
5 Looking for Employment -
6 In the Photography Business -
7 A Constitution for Mississippi -
8 Justice of the Peace -
9 1869: State Elections and Reorganization -
10 Electing a Legislature -
11 Financing State Reconstruction -
12 Speaker of the House Lynch -
13 1872: Election to Congress -
14 Visit to Saint Louis -
15 1873: Mississippi Senatorial Elections -
16 Governors Alcorn and Ames -
17 The Colored Vote: Mississippi -
18 The Colored Vote: The South -
19 1874: Diminishing Republican Power -
20 1875: Gloomy Prospects for Reelection -
21 1875: Conversation with the President -
22 1875: Democratic Victory -
23 The Disputed Presidency -
24 1880: Garfield, the Compromise Candidate -
25 1880: The Battle for Reelection -
26 The Vicksburg Postmastership -
27 The Garfield Years -
28 1881: Republican and Greenback Alliance -
29 1882: Party and Election Disputes -
30 1884: Presidential Nominations -
31 1885: The Failure of J. R. Chalmers -
32 Marriage and Divorce -
33 The Cleveland Years: Interracial Marriages -
34 The Harrison Years -
35 Republican Factionalism and the Problem of Disenfranchisement -
36 Cleveland’s Reelection -
37 Law Firm of Terrell and Lynch -
38 1896: The McKinley Campaign -
39 Contest for Mississippi Delegates -
40 Fighting the Hill Organization -
41 McKinley Appointments: The Postal Service -
42 McKinley Appointments: Army Paymaster Lynch -
43 Keeping in Politics -
44 Controversial Convention Procedures -
45 In Cuba -
46 In Nebraska -
47 In Puerto Rico and San Francisco -
48 In Hawaii and the Philippines -
49 Retirement and Remarriage -
50 Democrats in the South: The Race Question - Index