Missouri Republican: Difference between revisions

After supporting the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], the paper became aligned with the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref name="St. Louis Media History">{{Cite web|url=https://www.stlmediahistory.org/index.php/Print/PrintPublicationHistory/st.-louis-republic|title=St. Louis Media History|website=www.stlmediahistory.org}}</ref>

In the late 19th century, the ''Republic'' had the second-largest circulation in St. Louis, surpassing papers that would survive it, such as the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' and the ''[[St. Louis Star-Times]]''.<ref name="American newspaper directory">{{Cite web|url=httphttps://archive.org/details/americannewspape1895newy|title=American newspaper directory|date=March 18, 1895|publisher=New York|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> Its final owner was [[David R. Francis]], a prominent political figure. In 1919, after years of losses, Francis sold the ''Republic'' to the ''[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]]'', a longtime rival paper supportive of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], which closed it.<ref name="The National Endowment for the Humanities">{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/|title=The St. Louis Republic. [volume]|author=The National Endowment for the Humanities|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}</ref>

The ''Gazette'' hired [[Henry Marie Brackenridge]], son of [[Hugh Henry Brackenridge]] and his wife, as the first [[Community correspondent|staff correspondent]] for a St. Louis newspaper. His father was an attorney, chaplain, editor and more, based in [[Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania]]. The younger Brackenridge was educated in part by living for several years with a French-speaking family in [[Ste. Genevieve, Missouri]] when young, and then on another occasion. After reading the law and passing the bar in [[Baltimore, Maryland]], Brackenridge had practiced there and in Pennsylvania, but grew restless and returned to the West in 1810, settling in St. Louis.<ref name="brackenridge"/>

In the winter of 1810-18111810–1811, he wrote a series of articles for the ''Gazette'' about the Louisiana Territory.<ref name="brackenridge"/> In 1811 he traveled with [[Manuel Lisa]] to the upper Missouri for [[fur trading]].<ref name="brackenridge">{{cite web|url=https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/view/1839|title= Henry Marie Brackenridge and His Writings|work=Henry Marie Brackenridge - Journals|editor= J.F. McDermott |publisher= Pennsylvania State University Press |year=1937}}</ref> Brackenridge wrote "descriptive letters" for the ''Gazette'' from locations along the [[Missouri River]] during these months.<ref name=Stevens1/>{{rp|105}}

It eventually becoming known as the ''St. Louis Republic'' in 1888. After supporting the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], the paper became aligned with the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.stlmediahistory.org/index.php/Print/PrintPublicationHistory/st.-louis-republic|titlename="St. Louis Media History|website=www.stlmediahistory.org}}<"/ref> In the late 19th century, the ''Republic'' had the second largest circulation in St. Louis, surpassing papers that would survive it, such as the ''[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]'' and the ''[[St. Louis Star-Times]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.org/details/americannewspape1895newy|titlename="American newspaper directory|date=March 18, 1895|publisher=New York|via=Internet Archive}}<"/ref> Its final owner was [[David R. Francis]], a prominent political figure. In 1919, after years of losses, Francis sold the ''Republic'' to the ''[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]]'', a longtime rival paper supportive of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], which closed it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84020274/|title=The St. Louis Republic. [volume]|authorname="The National Endowment for the Humanities|via=chroniclingamerica.loc.gov}}<"/ref>

<blockquote>a fearless and independent advocate of [[Liberal democracy|Liberal Democratic]] principles. It is bound, however, by no ties to the support of unworthy men, nor by party discipline to any action it may deem unwise of impolitic. . . . It will studiously strive, as in the past, to avoid sensational and prurient journalism, and will without sacrificing spice and piquancy, aim to make itself worthy of admission into the purest circles. . . . It will also be enlivened with a variety of miscellaneous matter, and by features of interest to be found only in this paper.<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/46350848/?terms=%22Missouri%2BRepublican%22 Advertisement, "Missouri Republican: A First Class News and Family Journal," ''The Herald,'' Lincoln County, Missouri, January 15, 1873, page 3]</ref>

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