Chapter 3: Friends, footnote 136, page 126 Ch3 fn. 136 p. 126 Tags: Politics Thompson says that the Texas and Pacific failed to get a majority, but Huntington's lobbyists thought otherwise. Crocker to CPH, Oct. 16, 1877, Boyd to CPH, Nov. 29, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13. Thompson, Spiders Web, 203. Boyd to Gates, Dec. 9, 1877, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 13.