People's Party Paper (Atlanta, Ga.)
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76 issues from 1892 to 1898, published in Atlanta, Georgia, digitised for Chronicling America.
Thomas E. Watson, Charles C. Post, and Eliam Christian organized as the People’s Party Publishing Company, established the People’s Party Paper with its inaugural issue on October 1, 1891 in Atlanta, Georgia. The eight-page paper achieved a weekly circulation of 20,000 subscribers by the mid-1890s, and, with Watson as its editorial voice, became the preeminent sheet of Southern Populists. The paper’s emergence occurred as members of the Farmers’ Alliance, a cooperative agrarian movement established in the 1870s, debated the formation of their own political party. Watson, elected to Georgia’s Tenth Congressional District as an Alliance Democrat in 1890, was instrumental in forming the first People’s Party (Populist Party] caucus in 1891, which subsequently caused a schism within the Farmers’ Alliance organization. Watson found himself at odds with both Democratic and Alliance newspapers in Georgia, resulting in the need for a newspaper of his own. Until Watson’s return to Georgia in August 1892, Post served as managing editor and publisher for the People’s Party Paper. In September 1892, Watson returned from Washington DC, purchased Post and Christian’s shares in the People’s Party Paper, and became sole owner until stepping down in 1894 to focus on his tasks as editor in chief.
For the next six years, Watson managed the People’s Party Paper editorial department while traveling Georgia on speaking tours. Besides Watson’s own editorials, letters, and speeches, the paper…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Atlanta, Georgia, 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