Pemilihan gubernur Alabama tahun 1874: Perbedaan antara revisi

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== Pemilihan Umum ==
Gubernur petahana David P. Lewis adalah mantan Demokrat yang mewakili [[Lawrence County, Alabama|Lawrence County]] di [[Alabama dalam Perang Saudara Amerika#Pemisahan|konvensi pemisahan diri negara bagian]] di awal [[American Civil Perang]], memberikan suara menentang pemisahan diri tetapi akhirnya menjabat sebagai legislator di [[Kongres Konfederasi Sementara]]; dia kemudian menjadi delegasi di [[Konvensi Nasional Demokrat 1868]] untuk Alabama sebelum dia bergabung dengan Partai Republik.<ref name="woolfolk-article" />{{rp|p=241}}<ref name="eoa-david-lewis">{{cite web |title=Lewis, David P. |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/david-p-lewis-1872-74/ |website=[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]] |access-date=5 September 2023}}</ref> Telah menjadi pendukung pemberian kembali hak pilih [[scalawag]] yang pernah bertugas di Konfederasi<ref name="woolfolk-article" />{{rp|pp=242–248}} dan karena sudah lama tinggal di Alabama, Lewis terpilih sebagai calon dari Partai Republik untuk [[pemilihan gubernur Alabama tahun 1872|pemilihan sebelumnya]].<ref name="eoa-david-lewis" /> HoweverNamun, duringselama hismasa tenurejabatannya, existingterjadi tensionsketegangan betweenantara thefaksi-faksi factionsPartai of the RepublicansRepublik,{{efn|Most notably consisting of antebellum Unionists, or scalawags; northerners who had moved south post-war, or [[carpetbaggers]]; and the newly enfranchised population of former slaves, or [[freedman#United States|freedmen]].<ref name="eoa-alabama-republicans">{{cite web |title=Republican Party in Alabama |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/republican-party-in-alabama/ |website=[[Encyclopedia of Alabama]] |access-date=5 September 2023}}</ref>}} particularly over civil rights and [[Reconstruction in the United States|Reconstruction]] began to boil over, and the political violence of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] began to target many of the party's voters.<ref name="eoa-alabama-republicans" />
 
The Democratic nominee was [[George S. Houston]], a former representative and Senator for the state who had been pro-Union at the time of secession, but remained in Alabama through the war, though he took no part in its fighting; he was chosen likewise in an effort to appeal to a broader coalition which included Unionists dissatisfied with Lewis' administration.<ref name="eoa-houston">{{cite web |title=Houston, George S. |url=https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/george-s-houston-1874-78/ |website=Encyclopedia of Alabama |access-date=5 September 2023}}</ref> The Democrats presented themselves as "[[redeemers]]" who would restore White dominance and eliminate Republican corruption.<ref name="eoa-houston" />