[2137] See testimony of Dunbar and Gardner in Coburn Report, pp. 101, 209, 210, 300, 302; Opelika Daily Times, Sept. 30, 1874.
[2138] State Journal, June 16, 1874. For a typical readoption of this platform see the resolutions of the Tuscaloosa County Democrats in State Journal, June 24, 1874. “Old Whig” in the Opelika Daily Times, Sept. 30, 1874, proposed that the whites “fall back upon the old Wesleyan doctrine ‘to prefer one another in business’;” “Give the Radicals no support;” “The adder that stings should find no warmth in the bosom of the dying victim.”
[2139] Opelika Times, Oct. 14, 1874; Coburn Report, pp. 97, 103-104.
[2140] Coburn Report, p. 856; Annual Cyclopædia (1874), p. 15.
[2141] Coburn Report, pp. 99, 101, 856, 859; Opelika Daily Times, June 29 and Oct. 3, 1874; Montgomery Advertiser, Oct. 23, 1902.
[2142] State Journal, June 4 and 27, 1874; Coburn Report, p. 881; Annual Cyclopædia (1874), pp. 15, 16; Tuskegee News, July 2, 1874.
[2143] The division was as follows:—
| District | Distributing Points | Pounds |
| First | Mobile, Selma, Camden | 55,851 |
| Second | Montgomery | 44,402 |
| Third | Opelika, Talladega, Seale | 41,802 |
| Fourth | Demopolis | 53,663 |
| Fifth and sixth | Decatur | 31,278 |
[2144] Senate Journal, 1874-1875, p. 7.
[2145] For full account of the bacon question see Ho. Doc., No. 110, 43d Cong., 2d Sess.; also Tuskegee News, June 4, Aug. 27, and Sept. 24, 1874; Coburn Report, pp. 36, 50, 69, 207, 241.