Wikipedia

Courier Journal: Difference between revisions

Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
m →‎top: Archive fixes
Added links. Fixed grammer, typos.
Line 37:
Pioneer paper ''The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature'', was founded in 1826 in Louisville when the city was an early settlement of less than 7,000 individuals. In 1830 a new newspaper, ''The Louisville Daily Journal'', began distribution in the city and, in 1832, absorbed ''The Focus of Politics, Commerce and Literature''. The ''Journal'' was an organ of the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], founded and edited by [[George D. Prentice]], a New Englander who initially came to Kentucky to write a biography of [[Henry Clay]].<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=23375897|last=Congleton|first=Betty Carolyn|title=The Louisville Journal: Its Origin and Early Years |journal=The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society |volume=62|issue=2|pages=87–88|date=April 1964}}</ref> Prentice would edit the ''Journal'' for more than 40 years.
 
In 1844, another newspaper, the ''Louisville Morning Courier'', was founded in Louisville by [[Walter Newman Haldeman]]. ''The Louisville Daily Journal'' and the ''Louisville Morning Courier'' were the news leaders in [[Louisville, Kentucky|Louisville]] and were politically opposed throughout the [[American Civil War|Civil War]]; ''The Journal'' was [[Abolitionism|against slavery]] while the ''Courier'' was [[Confederate States of America|pro-Confederacy]]. The ''Courier'' was suppressed by the Union and had to move to [[Nashville, Tennessee|Nashville]], but returned to Louisville after the war.
 
Upon President [[Abraham Lincoln]] issuing the [[Emancipation Proclamation]] that ended slavery in the Confederate states, the ''Journal'' opposed the Proclamation as an unconstitutional use of presidential power and predicted: "Kentucky cannot and will not acquiesce in this measure. Never!"<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HZxOJarwChkC&pg=PA105|title=Fighting Words: An Illustrated History of Newspaper Accounts of the Civil War|last=Coopersmith|first=Andrew S.|place=New York|publisher=The New Press|year=2004|isbn=1-56584-796-2|pages=105–106}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Progress and Intelligence of Americans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9jdcAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA65|last=Wheat|first=M.T.|edition=2nd|year=1862|place=Louisville|pages=65–68}}</ref>
Line 44:
===Watterson era===
[[File:Editorial Staff of "The Courier-Journal" 1868.jpg|thumb|Editorial staff of ''The Courier-Journal'', 1868.]]
Henry Watterson, the son of a Tennessee congressman, had written for ''[[Harper's Magazine]]'' and the[[The New York Times|''The'' ''[[New York Times]]'']] before enlisting in the [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] Army. He became nationally known for his work as ''The Courier-Journal'' emerged as the region's leading paper. He supported the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and pushed for the industrialization of Kentucky and the South in general, notably through urging the [[Southern Exposition]] be held in Louisville. He attracted controversy for attempting to prove that [[Christopher Marlowe]] had actually written the works of [[Shakespeare]]. He won a [[Pulitzer Prize]] in 1917 for editorials demanding the United States enter [[World War I]].<ref name="presshist">{{cite book|title=The Press of Kentucky: 1787–1994|year=1994|author=Towles, Donald B.|publisher=Kentucky Press Association|asin=B0006P81OQ}}</ref>
 
''The Courier-Journal'' founded a companion afternoon edition of the paper, ''[[The Louisville Times]]'', in May 1884. In 1896, Watterson and Haldeman opposed Democratic presidential candidate [[William Jennings Bryan]] over his support of "[[Freefree Silversilver]]" coinage. This unpopular decision upset readers and advertisers, many of whom pulled their support for ''The Courier-Journal''. Kentucky voted for the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] candidate in 1896, the first time in state history, and local political leaders blamed the Courier. Only the popularity of ''The Louisville Times'', which had no strong editorial reputation, saved the newspaper company from bankruptcy. The ''Courier'' supported Bryan in future elections.<ref name="presshist" />
 
Haldeman had owned the papers until his death in 1902, and by 1917 they were owned by his son, William, and Henry Watterson.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courier_Journal"