Everything about The Republican Springfield totally explained
The Republican is a newspaper based in
Springfield, Massachusetts.
Beginning
Established by
Samuel Bowles in 1824 as a rural
weekly, it was converted into a daily in 1844. From the beginning it had a focus on local news. As rapidly as possible its news-gathering was extended until within a few years its columns contained departments of items from every town and hamlet along the Connecticut Valley, as well as from Springfield.
Politics
Bowles believed that the newspaper should be a power in the moral, religious, and literary, as well as the political life of the community, and he tried to make his paper fulfill those functions. With the aid of
J. G. Holland and others who joined the staff the paper attained excellent literary quality and a high moral tone. Its opinions soon reached all
New England, and after the formation of the Republican party they extended far beyond the limits of any section.
During the controversies affecting
slavery and resulting in the
American Civil War, Bowles supported, in general, the
Whig and
Republican parties, but in the period of
Reconstruction under President
Ulysses S. Grant, his paper represented anti-administration or
Liberal Republican opinions, while in the disputed
election of 1876 it favored the claims of
Samuel J. Tilden, and subsequently became independent in politics.
Other
During Bowles' lifetime, and subsequently, the
Republican office was a sort of school for young journalists, especially in the matter of pungency and conciseness of style, one of his
maxims being: "put it all in the first paragraph".
Bowles was an acquaintance of
Emily Dickinson, and he published a handful of the very few poems by the poet printed in her lifetime, including "A narrow fellow in the grass" and "Safe in their alabaster chambers."
Bowles was succeeded as publisher and editor-in-chief of the
Republican by his son Samuel Bowles (b. 1851).
The newspaper was formerly known as The Springfield Union News & Sunday Republican. The name change occurred around year 2000.
Today
The paper closed after a long strike in 1947 but restarted circulation in the 1960s. Wayne E. Phaneuf is currently the executive editor of the paper. Former executive editor Larry McDermott is currently the newspaper's publisher.
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