Little Rock Daily Republican ([Little Rock, Ark.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
915 issues from 1872 to 1875, published in Little Rock, Arkansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
On March 1, 1866, John P. Jones and William J. Buchanan started the Daily Dispatch in Little Rock. They both worked as the editors and publishers. The Dispatch originally claimed to ignore politics, instead advocating for the interests of the state regarding things railroads, schools, and agriculture. However, the editors quickly moved into commenting on politics, taking a Republican slant. One of the paper’s rivals, the Daily Pantograph (1863-1866), had its office across the street from the Dispatch. The Pantograph editor wrote that they did not want “Yankees” like the Dispatch editors bringing their politics into Arkansas. The following year, in April 1867, John G. Price purchased the Dispatch and renamed it the Little Rock Evening Republican. Jones stayed on at the new paper, but Buchanan left at that point. Price was the editor of the Republican, which published its first issue on April 10, 1867. The Evening Republican was issued daily, except for Sundays. The following Wednesday, April 17, 1867, Jones and Price began publishing a weekly edition of the paper, the Arkansas Weekly Republican, also occasionally referred to as the Arkansas Republican. The Republican paper was the official organ of the Republican administration in Arkansas, and for a few years, the paper included “Official Journal of the City” on the masthead. As mouthpiece of the party, the Republican supported the Reconstruction policies of Governor Powell Clayton, and several of its editors participated…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress