The Goodland Republic (Goodland, Kan.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
812 issues from 1891 to 1907, published in Goodland, Kansas, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Goodland Republic was a Populist weekly based in Goodland, Kansas, from October 16, 1891, to May 31, 1907. It enjoyed a circulation of up to 700 subscribers in the northwest corner of the state.
Julius H. Stewart, a Civil War veteran, had moved from New York to Cheyenne County, Kansas, in 1885 where he traveled from town to town conducting religious services. On June 11, 1888, Stewart and F.M. Green became joint proprietors and editors of the Sherman County Republican . In their June 15, 1888 salutatory, they wrote: “In the first place we are republicans first, last and always. But we are independent of partisan control.” After Stewart became sole proprietor and editor, the paper was renamed the Goodland Republican in 1889. As Stewart gradually embraced the politics of the Farmer’s Alliance, the paper’s name was changed to the Goodland Republic, bearing the motto, “The People’s Party Paper”.
The Republic covered a variety of topics and featured articles on the Farmers Alliance and the Populist movement. As president of the Goodland Artificial Rain Company, Stewart reported on the success of rain making businesses in Kansas and neighboring Oklahoma, and Texas. After the 1890 census appeared, the Republic published an article on the widening gap between the rich and the poor. One could also find shorthand lessons, serialized fiction, as well as local, state, national, and world news. Consonant with the paper’s Populist stance, the subjects of Free Silver and bimetallism…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Goodland, Kansas, 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