The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1900-05-17
The Telegraph Courier.

GTRAPH-NOURlER
and dress and local habitation several
times, and has been under different
arrangements as a schoo1-boy may be
under different teachers, yet, it has
had an existence and a history since
1888. It has been called telegraph
Courier" 'Tribune and Telegraph -
Telegraph" and its baby tame was
'Inteligencer. It was born in Green
Bay in 1888. ]. V. Suydam was its
founder and first editor. In 1887 it was
sold to c. L. Sho1es and moved to
Southport, now Kenosha. At that
time only five newspapers occupied
the then territory Of Wisconsin. The
Wisconsin Democrat at Green Bay,
The Advertiser at Milwaukee, The Ga
zette at Belmont, and the Telegraph
at Southport. The TELEGRAPH-CoUR
TER is, as a matter of fact the oldest
newspaper in Wisconsin.
The numerous editors and managers
Of this the patriarcha1 paper of the
state have been men of whom Kenosha,
the Badger state, and the entire Wis
consin Press of all political complex
ion, have not been ashamed. The
name of Suydam fingers like fragrance
in the memories of the people of Green
Bay. c. L. Sho1es was widely and
favora bly, known throughout the ter
ritory of Wisconsin, both in politics
and in society. Col. M. Frank will
always hold a loving place in the
heart of Kenosha. Leander Stone,
after occupying the editorial chair of
the TELEGRAPH-COURI zfor. a time
was considered worthy of a position on
the staff of the NorthwesternC Christian
Advocate. Another editor, Charles
Clement, was elected to the state sem
ate in 1855. James Densmore was so
proud of his paper that he published
daily in connection with the weekly.
S. S. Schof has written himself in
history as an example of chasteness,
even temperatures and quiet gentle
man1iness. DR.. Hays Mckinley was
as pure in his thought as in his Ian
guage, AMI in his life honest as Abra-
ham who would not so much as take a
thong from the shoe of his neighbor.
Mr.. F. H. Hall maintained popular
presidency of the TELEG RAPH-COURIER
for five unforgotten years. Dis
The Observation-Disclosures has faith
fully recorded the principal events that
have occurred between the presidency
of Jackson and the administration of
William Mckinley. One might almost
wax eloquent in the presence of such
a history. Moving backward in time
from 1900 to 1883 we may see Kenosha's
weekly newspaper flying over the
nation to tell the story of the Philip
pines aud Manila Bay, of Cuba and
Porto Rico, of Yankee guns at Val
pariso, and the release Of the American
ship Haitien Republic. This paper
witnessed the B1aine-Conk1in conflict
and mourned the assassination of Gar
field It saw the vanishment of "The
s'nursed wrath to keep it warm" at the
birth of the National Greenback party
in 1880. The COURIER watched the
progress of reconstruction, grew in
dignant over K1u Klux, and grieved
at the taking off of Horace Greeley.
It was present in spirit at the birth of
the Republican party in 1858, and into
it's columns crowded full accounts of
the Civil War, from the fall of Sumter
to the capture of Davis. In 1849 the
pulse of the TELEGRAPH beat high for
the gold of California but never dug a
nugget except in imagination. 1t
fought in fancy at Pa1o Alto, and
marched with General Scott into the
Mexican metropolis. This paper fgur-
cider campaign; it was in the sweat
tub at the time of Van Buren,, when
banks failed, credit ceased, mills and
factories were shut down, and states
and the government became bankrupt.
It reioiced when the country cancelled
the debt of 1927, 100000 and took part
in the memorable United States Bank
controversy during the presidential
regime of Andrew Jackson. It is
nothing detrimental to the dignity OF
the value of Wisconsin's oldest paper
that it has lived and spoken during the
administration of nineteen or twenty
Presidents.
The TELEGRAPH-CoURI On this
the anniversary of its birth, greets its
uu1titude of friends and subscribers
wishing them peace and prosperity
It will endeavor in the future as in The
past to convey to it's hearers the eve
interesting story of the worlds pro
gress, and to the world the equally in
terestirg story of Kenosha's people