The Taney County Republican (Forsyth, Mo.)
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1,206 issues from 1895 to 1920, published in Forsyth, Missouri, digitised for Chronicling America.
November 28, 1895, marked the inaugural issue of The Taney County Republican in Forsyth, Missouri, the brainchild of the Taney County Prosecuting Attorney, Benjamin B. Price, and the Taney County Collector, Samuel J. Williams. They published the weekly four-page paper each Thursday. Price and Williams had bought out the Taney County Star, the only competing Republican newspaper in the county at the time. In their first editorial Price and Williams declared:
….the time has come for the appearance of a Republican paper at the county seat of Taney County. They have acquired control of the Taney County Star and have merged it in this enterprise being fully convinced that two newspapers could not hope to prosper in Forsyth……… As far as Republican politics are concerned The Taney County Republican will serve no faction and no favorites….
Forsyth was a small river town near the border with Arkansas. At this time, Forsyth resembled a Wild West town, with a history of rabblerousing and unrest. During the Civil War, Forsyth was completed destroyed by the Union Army, and in the mid-1880s, Taney County’s infamous Citizen Committee for Law and Order (known as Baldknobbers) was formed. A Republican organization concerned with the corruption among Taney County’s officeholders, the Baldknobbers ostensibly opposed vigilantism, but were themselves associated with hostilities, gunfights, and the mysterious destruction by fire of the courthouse in Forsyth. The Chariton Courier reported in…
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