The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-12-11
ST. LOUIS REPUBLIC
SUSPENDS

SU0T6NO0
Oldest Newspaper West Of the Mis-
sissippi Ends its Existence.
Purchased by the Globe
Democrat.
Democrats of Missouri, and those
of adjoining states as we'll, were sur
prised and grieved Thursday of last
week by the announcement that the
st. Louis Republic, the Oldest paper
west of the Mississippi and the only
Democratic paper in St. Louis, had
been purchased by the Globe-D Demo-
crat, Of nat city and would suspend
publication. For more than one
hundred years the Republic has been
the leading paper in this section If
the United States and since the birth
Of the Democratic party it has fought
! the battles of that party. On two
or three occasions in the past few
years it has been out of harmony
with some of the issues and candi-
dates Of that party and to this fact
is attributed its suspension. For
more than a generation the Demo-
Gratis of the middle West drew much
Of their inspiration from its pages
and they looked on it as the leader
in their party. The paper lost much
of its prestige in 1896 when it was
accused of being luke warm in its
support of Mr.. Bryan, the Demo-
cratic nominee for the presidency.
In his later campaigns it undertook
to undo the mischief by wholeheart-
edly supporting his candidacy.
The |'rinec ic in nosSessiOn of a
fac-simile of the first copy OF the
Missouri Gazette, afterwards the
Republic. 1t SHOWS The modest be-
one of the biggest and foremost pa
pers in the country. The columns,
three to the page are about IS inches
long 1t is dated "St. Louis, Louis
lana, July IL, 1908" The subscrip-
tlion price was $500 per year, in ad-
| vance, and the subscription list con-
tanned 40 names. Joseph Charles
was the first editor. By 1890 the
subscription list had grown to 1000
and Charles sold the paper to James
&c. Cummins, who I8 months later
| sold it to Edward Charles, son of the
| founder, who changed the name to
! the Missouri Republican.
In 1928 Nathaniel Paschall became
"a partner and editor of the paper.
At the same. time, George Knapp,
then boy, entered the service of the
paper as an apprentice. He Temained
with it until his death in 1883, His
nephew, Charles w. Knapp, was con-
nected with the paper for 4o years,
and was in control from 1895 TO
1916.
The present name of the paper was
adopted in 1888, when it became "The
Republic" thereby lessening the con-
fusion of strangers who did not un-
derstand how "The Republican"
could be a Democratic organ.
The change from weekly to a
daily was made Sept. 20, 1896, and in
I848 the first Sunday paper was pub
1ished.
The Republic announced its sus-
pension Thursday in the following |
EDITORIAL
The Republic Passes.
With this issue The Republic
ceases to be.
The Globe Printing Company, pub
fishers of the St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat has purchased the property of
this newspaper All paid in advance
subscriptions to the Daily, Sunday
and Semi-Weekly Republic will be
fulfilled by the Globe-Democrat with
similar editions.
The Republic commends its read
ers to The Globe-Democrat. 1t is
recognized as modern up-to-datc
newspaper in every respect, and we
believe that our faithful readers will
find themselves we'll served by it.
Before saying farewell The Repub-
lie wishes to extend its hearty thanks
to the faithful readers and advertis-
ers who have made this paper a
power for good in the Middle West
for more than century.
One hundred ana twelve years ago II
The Republic was born. There was a
fringe of well-settled country along
the Atlantic Coast. Villages were
springing up in the wilderness that
was to be the Middle West, the
Louisiana Purchase had been nego-
tiated five years before, while the tar
West and Southwest were foreign
soil.
The country was still finding it,
SELL StIIl ICAIuiu& HOW ~ AoAS snS
Constitution work, still an expert
ment. The war of 1872 was yet to be
fought, the Mexican War was not
dreamed of, and while the seeds that
made the Civil War were sown, no
of that great event
troubled the people.
Through those stirring times The
Republic, under one name or anoth-
cr, chronicled the events that make
the history of the United States, and
continued to do so through the won
de1ful period of national growth that
hsought the United States up to the
Great War the most powerful nation
ID the world.
And while The Republic conscious
y and purposefully recorded the
e3ofy OF the years, its very character
II makeup unconsciously reflected
~ tevolutionary processes which
6osmed the land from . country
= icuItural pioneers to . complex
g in1ton bound together with