It was a bitter struggle to the end. Here is how the Black Republican Edmund J. Davis unceremoniously was removed from office after losing a lawful election. BTW, Col. Davis was a traitor who mustered other traitors into the 1st Texas Cavalry in Occupied New Orleans in 1862. His only memorable combat experience was when Col. Santos Benavides along with 42 Partisan Rangers whipped Davis' 200 soldiers in 1864.
On January 15, 1874, Richard Coke was inaugurated as the new governor of Texas, the Democrat having received 100,415 votes over the hated Reconstruction-era Republican Governor Edmund J. Davis (52,141 votes). The Texas Supreme Court had declared the election to be illegal, earning the nickname, the “Semicolon Court.” E.J. Davis announced he was not leaving office.
The people decided that they were not going to allow their vote to be ignored, and the Austin militia, called the Travis Rifles, deputized by the Travis County Sheriff, armed itself and surrounded the Capitol. E.J. Davis appealed to President Grant for support of federal troops, but Grant declined. On January 19, Davis yielded to an armed citizenry, and resigned.
p.s. The Travis Rifles was also the name of a company of men from the Austin area who volunteered their service in 1861, becoming Co. G, 4th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade. I bet a nickel some of those veterans were in the 1874 militia.