The Jersey City News (Jersey City [N.J.])
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
5,346 issues from 1889 to 1906, published in Jersey City, New Jersey, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Jersey City News debuted on February 25, 1889 in Jersey City, New Jersey. Billed as “The only Democratic daily published in Jersey City,” the News was presented as an alternative to the Republican-leaning Evening Journal. Republicans dominated this period nationally, and so besides attacking GOP positions on local concerns, the Jersey City News was known to blast them nationwide too. Early in the run-up to war with Spain, when it appeared that the McKinley administration preferred to avoid conflict, the News denounced the president’s decision as opportunistic. In a March 29, 1898 editorial entitled “The National Shame,” the News scornfully explained that “[Cuban] leaders are not as big fools as McKinley is. They have their brutal tyrants practically beaten now, and they are not going to surrender their advantages now because Mark Hanna sees more money in peace than war.” However, any contempt the News had for Republicans quickly abated when President McKinley was assassinated on September 14, 1901. The paper offered a sympathetic voice both for McKinley’s widow and the nation as it mourned its fallen leader. “Whatever may have been the faults or errors of William McKinley’s career. . . [H]e is the martyr of our National system, and as such he is beyond criticism . . .”
In its early years, the Jersey City News was known to focus attention to Irish nationalist movements. With one of the largest populations in the state at the time, Jersey City contained a large…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Jersey City, New Jersey, 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