R. Franchot to CPH, June 12, 1870, LB, 1:143, box 20, Hopkins Collection.
For change in politics, see Nicolas Barryere, "Politics of Economic Crises: The Case of 1873" (Paper, SSHA Conference, Nov. 13, 2009).
Franchot to CPH, Jan. 9, 1874, LB, 6:71, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
See also Tichenor to Dodge, June 17, 1873, W. E. Chandler to Dodge, March 29, 1873, General Correspondence, box 8, Dodge Papers.
Franchot to CPH, Feb. 19, 1874, LB, 6:153, box 22, Hopkins Collection.
Edward Wislow Martin, History of the Grange Movement; or, The Farmers War against Monopolies . . . (Chicago: National Publishing Company, 1874), 6.
For the transition from anti-monopoly focused on land issues to wider concerns, see Tamara Venit (Venit-Shelton), "A Squatters' Republic : Land Rights, Reform, and Anti-monopoly in California and the Nation, 1850-1920" (Ph.D. Thesis, Stanford University, 2008).