Chapter 3: Friends, footnote 83, page 114 Ch3 fn. 83 p. 114 Tags: Discursive, David Colton, Published Letters/Correspondence, Politics Huntington to Colton, May 1, 1875, Letters from Collis P. Huntington 4: 344. The Central Pacific used the tactic of running a third candidate to draw off votes from a targeted candidate to defeat Sherman Houghton in 1875, Octopus Speaks, 268.
