Ep. 9: The Davis-Coke Election and an Armed Standoff in the Capitol

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Ken Wise

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🗓️ 1 February 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Texas elections are always exciting but not all of them result in an armed standoff in the capitol between two Governors. The election of 1873 did! The Texas Supreme Court used a semicolon to cause the conflict and, change Texas history and end reconstruction! Learn more in Episode 9 of Wise About Texas. The Capitol building where the standoff occurred. The same capitol building on fire in 1881 The infamous "Semicolon Court" Governor Richard Coke E.J. Davis in his union uniform. Davis adversary Gov. Andrew J. Hamilton

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0:00.0	How do you know? Howdy and welcome to Wise About Texas, the Texas History Podcast.
0:19.0	I want to again thank all the listeners for your continued great feedback on this podcast.
0:24.1	I hope you'll take a minute to leave a review on iTunes so other Texas history lovers can
0:28.5	find the show.
0:30.0	And don't forget to send in your suggestions for stories that you'd like to learn more about.
0:35.0	Well, it's primary election season here in Texas, in case you haven't noticed.
0:39.0	And elections in Texas always make for good stories.
0:42.0	Today, you're going to learn about a gubernatorial election that resulted in an armed standoff in the capital
0:48.0	and the Supreme Court that changed Texas history based on a semicolon.
0:54.1	So let's go back to 1873 and get wise about Texas.
0:59.8	1873 was a tough time in Texas.
1:02.6	Reconstruction was in full swing.
1:04.6	A few years before, the radicals in the US Congress had replaced presidential reconstruction
1:09.4	with military reconstruction.
1:11.3	Federal troops began entering Texas to enforce the
1:13.6	reconstruction laws in 1865. The military demanded strict loyalty and
1:18.5	threaten the antebellum and wartime Texas leaders with a loss of their
1:22.2	political power. The citizens feared a
1:24.6	loss of their economy and lifestyle because of the federal's view on civil rights.
1:29.4	It was an uncertain time. The military was slow to impose its will, however,
1:35.0	because there were relatively few troops in Texas,
1:38.0	and most of the troops were on the frontier.
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