The following list shows how one distribution was made in October, just before the elections:—

CountyPounds
Montgomery14,151
Lowndes8,283
Butler4,235
Dale (to P. King, Haw Ridge)2,482
Barbour4,527
Bullock5,169
Pike (to Gardner and Wiley)2,066
Henry1,036
Clay3,000
Randolph2,000
Coosa3,000
Elmore3,500
Talladega7,500
Lee (to W. H. Betts)9,792
Russell (to W. H. Betts)2,390
Walker2,178
“To G. P. Plowman, by order
of Charles Pelham, M. C.”
1,000

[2146] Coburn Report, pp. 59, 60.

[2147] Annual Cyclopædia (1874), p. 13; Coburn Report, pp. 247-254.

[2148] The Tribune, Oct. 7, 8, and 12, 1874; The Nation, Aug. 27, and Oct. 15 and 27, 1874; Annual Cyclopædia (1874), p. 12; Foulke, “Life of O. P. Morton,” Vol. II, p. 350. The Hays-Hawley letter was first published in the Hartford Courant and in the Boston Daily Advertiser. It is also in the Coburn Report, pp. 1254-1260.

[2149] N. Y. Tribune, Oct. 7, 1874; Coburn Report, pp. 244, 245, 1221, 1226, 1241, 1247, 1264, 1266.

[2150] Coburn Report, p. 512.

[2151] Coburn Report, p. 931.

[2152] Eufaula News, Sept. 3, 1874; Coburn Report, p. 855.

[2153] Coburn Report, pp. 679, 681, 746.