Der Tägliche Demokrat (Davenport, Iowa) 186?-1918
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995 issues from 1915 to 1918, published in Davenport, Iowa, digitised for Chronicling America.
Founded in 1851 in Davenport, Iowa, Der Demokrat represented the on-going desire of German immigrants to retain their native language and culture in their adopted country. As with other German- language papers in the United States, Der Demokrat survived and even thrived as long as readers identified themselves as German-Americans. As this population dwindled after 1900 and the nation became hostile toward Germany during World War I, increasing numbers of German-Americans abandoned their native language newspapers such as Der Demokrat and fully embraced both the English language and American society.
“Jedem das Seine!” was the motto that appeared on the masthead of the first issue of Der Demokrat. The motto was one of justice, loosely translated as, “To each his own.” In that sense, the paper was a symbol of the democratic movement that had spread across Europe in the late 1840s. Although copies of Der Demokrat for the first decade of publication do not survive, the founding editor, Theodor Johannes Hesdorf Gülich, was an ardent socialist, and it is likely that his paper reflected that philosophy. The paper was insistent in its opposition of slavery and its support of popular freedom and social reform.
At first, Der Demokrat was published weekly. Beginning on January 3, 1856, Gülich added a daily edition, later titled Der Tägliche Demokrat, with the help of his new assistant editor, Heinrich Ramming. The paper struggled to cover its expenses during its early years, but did…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Davenport, Iowa, United States
- 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