Category: History - American

Politics of Alabama

Notice was first attracted by the famous Kolb-Jones gubernatorial contest. This campaign was something novel in the South, for until then, there had not been, for years, any probability of defeat to the organized Democracy in Alabama.

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

Notice was first attracted by the famous Kolb-Jones gubernatorial contest. This campaign was something novel in the South, for until then, there had not been, for years, any pro...

7. CHAPTER VII.

"Bourbon" campaign intolerance, ballot-box stuffing and other similar crimes against human liberty have become a common practice in the political contests in Alabama. It is said...

6. CHAPTER VI.

The revolt of the common people of Alabama against the "machine bosses" is, simply speaking, a revolution against revolutionists; and the increasing strength of the former is ra...

8. CHAPTER VIII.

The people of Alabama will no longer vote the Democratic ticket simply because the "antediluvian" leaders say so. They will no longer be intimidated by party threats, or blindly...

3. CHAPTER III.

The rank and file of Democrats in Alabama, until recently, have blindly drifted along, neglecting every interest. Thinking of nothing else, scarcely, than "machine boss" protect...

5. CHAPTER V.

Some species of the brute creation open their eyes in nine days, but some of the poor, blinded and burden-bearing creatures of humanity scarcely ever succeed in getting their ey...

4. CHAPTER IV.

The people of Alabama were plunged into the bloody, surging sea of trouble in the sixties by the same extremist element in the South, which has more than once ruled more despera...

2. CHAPTER II.

Excepting those who have resided in the South, few people outside have any true conception whatever, of what means a contest against the fixed ideas and established policies of...