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.
Lustig is still good on antimonopolism.
Chester McArthur Destler, "Western Radicalism, 1865-1901: Concepts and Origins," Mississippi Valley Historical Review 31 (Dec. 1944): 335-68, esp., 340-41, quote, 356.
R. Jeffrey Lustig, Corporate Liberalism: The Origins of Modern American Political Theory, 1890-1920 (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1982), 42-46.
The Union Pacific's attempts to vote their workers en masse created scandal and resentment.
Jay Gould was no more adept.
Crocker to CPH, Oct. 25, 1883, Crocker Papers.
Testimony of Edward Rosewater, June 28, 1887, PRC, 3:1339-40.
William R. Childs, The Texas Railroad Commission: Understanding Regulation in America to the Mid-twentieth Century (College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2005), 61-63.
For Booth, Lavender, Great Persuader, 311.
Rothman misinterprets Sargent,
Rothman, Politics and Power, 201.
William Deverell, Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994), 29-31, 55, 59-60.