Goodwyn-Brewer Case

Title

Goodwyn-Brewer Case

Source Type

Newspapers

Publisher

Tuskaloosa Gazette

Publication Place

Tuscaloosa, AL

Publication Date

02/17/1989

Transcript

Goodwyn-Brewer Case. The contested election case of Goodwyn vs. Brewer, from the Fifth Alabama district, was argued before the house committee on elections No. 1 Saturday. Mr. Goodwyn contested the seat held by Judge Cobb in the last house and was given the seat. Mr. Goodwyn was represented in the committee by Gen. W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, and Mr. Vaughan, of Alabama, and Mr. Brewer by A. D. Pitts and G. H. Patrick. Cobb's plurality on the face of the returns was 700; Brewer's almost 6,000. As in the Aldrich-Plowman contest, the principal allegation of fraud is made against the returns from the county (Lowndes in this case) where there is a large excess of colored population over white. The census shows that the population of Lowndes county consisted of 4,563 whites and 6,985 colored persons. The official returns from this county gave Brewer, democrat, 3,407, and Goodwyn, republican, 272.

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