Politics

The road was chartered as the Texas and Pacific in 187l and reorganized as the Texas and Pacific in 1872,

S. 724, 42d Cong., 2d sess., April 25, 1872.

Poor, Manual, 1873-74, 605;

Poor, Manual, 1878-79, 858-59.

Texas and Pacific Railroad, 44th Cong., 2d sess., Rep. 139, pt. 1, 1-8.

Hopkins to CPH, Feb. 4, 1873, CPH Papers, ser. 1, r. 5.

CPH to C. Crocker, Feb. 3, 1871, Letters from Collis P. Huntington, 3:252-53.

For implications of fraud for interpretations of Gilded Age politics, Peter H. Argersinger,"New Perspectives on Election Fraud in the Gilded Age," Political Science Quarterly 100 (Winter, 1985-86), 669-687.

CPH to Hopkins, March 11, 1872, LB, 2:43, box 20, Hopkins Collection.

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).

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