Goggintt Yes, It waa a eraaading paper* Ve have a letter 



by Mark Twain written to my father many ye are later 

 recalling the daya on the Union end what fine men 

 the propria tore wez*e and how oourageoua they were 

 in advoeating re forma* 



dilbi What aort of reforma? Along the Henry George 

 alngle-tax line? 



Coggina: Probably not* In thoae daya In many people* a 



mind a the Southern Pacific waa the enemy of the 

 public because it was monopoliatic* had thinga 

 pretty much ita own way and ran the politica of 

 the atete. At leeatf that waa the feeling of 

 the anti-railroad people* It waa that group that 

 elected Newton Booth Governor of C8lifomia» aa an 

 anti*railroad man* He waa Booth Tarkington*a 

 uncle* Politica then waa very much as it ia today* 

 HiraK Johnaon*a father, Grove L* Johnaon, waa an 

 Asaemblyman in that period* Later he waa olaasified 

 aa pro-railroad* My grandfather waa alao in the 

 legialeture* It waa in the *70'a* It* a one of 

 the atoriea in the family— I can't vouch for it— 

 that in a way he waa reaponaible for keeping the 

 capital in Sacramento « There was an attempt to 

 move it to Benicia and of eourae the Sacramento 



