Semi-Weekly Interior Journal (Stanford, Ky.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
2,414 issues from 1881 to 1905, published in Stanford, Kentucky, digitised for Chronicling America.
Stanford’s longest running newspaper, the Interior Journal was founded by newspapermen F.J. Campbell and D.W. Hilton in 1872. Col. William Pulaski “W.P.” Walton bought Campbell’s share of the paper in 1875 and Hilton’s share in 1881. By the time Walton was sole owner, the weekly Democratic paper had reached a readership of nearly 4,000 in Lincoln County. In 1881, Walton doubled the rate of publication and changed the paper’s name to the Semi-weekly Interior Journal. In 1905, W.P.’s brother, Edwin Claiborne “E.C.” Walton bought the paper and restored the original weekly rate and title.
The Walton family controlled the Interior Journal for over 70 years. Colonel Walton, a railroad contractor from Virginia, was known for his staunchly Democratic beliefs, as his editorials proved, so there is little surprise that the Journal was quick to endorse local and national Democratic candidates, including James B. McCreary, twice governor of Kentucky as well as a U.S. congressman and senator. Colonel Walton began a tradition of “courageous opinion” and seemingly inexhaustible Walton family editorial copy. E.C. Walton, who became the editor in 1900–five years before taking full control of the paper–followed firmly in his brother’s footsteps.
E.C. Walton owned and managed the paper from 1905 until 1910, when he sold it to Shelton M. Saufley, the former editor of the Lexington Democrat (sometimes referred to as the Lexington Morning Democrat).Saufley ran the Interior Journal for four…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Stanford, Kentucky, 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