Octopus Speaks, 548.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 198, 349.
Charles Flanagan was the Sergeant-at-Arms for the House and working for the C.P.
Flanagan to CPH, June 16, 1879, June 23, 1879, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 17.
The Union Pacific thought its telegrams were watched in the Western Union offices in New York,
Gorham broke with Stanford but was still "borrowing" money from Huntington in 1875 and on the Central Pacific's books for "loans" in 1879.
Gorham to Huntington, Oct. 20, 1875, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 6.
Octopus Speaks, 176, 276.
Huntington to Colton, Jan. 24, 1876, Jan. 29, 1876, Octopus Speaks, 229, 230.
Lavender, Great Persuader, 260, 311.
For parallel between party and lobby, see Thompson, Spider Web, 17.
Dodge to Bond, March 1, 1875, Box 180, v. 346, Letterbook-Calif. Texas Railroad: Letters 1874-78, 278, Dodge Papers.
"Problems with Republicans," Dodge to R. Clarkson, Dec. 15, 1874, Box 179, v. 382, Letterbooks G.M. Dodge, 1872-1874., 487-90.
Northern Pacific, Dodge to Scott, June 16, 1874, 305, ibid.
Dodge to Bond, July 28 , 1875, Box 180, v. 346, Letterbook Calif. Texas Railroad: Letters 1874-78, 330.
Working legislatures, Dodge to Gen. Geo. Manny, Jan. 9, 1875, Box 160.
Letterbooks, Texas & Pacific Railroad, Letters to heads of departments and employees, May 26, 1874 to May 23, 1876.