Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — NEWSPAPER FILES SENT TO UNIVERSITY [ARTICLE]

NEWSPAPER FILES SENT TO UNIVERSITY

Indianapolis Journal Volumes for 79 Years Become Part of Historical Library. The files of the Indianapolis Journal from 1825 to the time of its sus pension on June 8, 1904, were sent by the Indianapolis Star to the state university at Bloomington last week, and will be a part of the state’s historical library. Dr. Logan Esarey is the secretary of the historical survey being conducted bv the university and he personally Wfperintended the removal of the large volumes. The files were not given but were loaned by The Star. The transaction revived interest in the newspaper and political history of the state and a review in Sunday’s Star tells of the editors of The Journal from the time it was founded until its suspension. Douglas Maguire and John Douglass founded Tli/i Journal. Maguire was the editor and he was too cool and passive to make a success in thosfT days of outspoken tendencies. S. V. Noel succeeded him. Theo. J. Barnett was the editor for some time and he was a fiery hot-headed Writer and engaged in a long political and personal discussion with Editor Chapman of the Indianapolis Sentinel. On one occasion Barnett drew a revolver on Chapman in the postoffice and save for timely action by friends blood would have been shed. John D. Defrees purchased the paper flh 1846 and toilducted it as proprietor and editor until 1854. Sulgrove succeeded Defrees and was the editor for ten years and The Journal was the leading anti-slavery paper in the state. In 1864 the paper was purchased by William R. Holloway & Co. The paper passed through various hands for a number of year®. John C. New bought the paper in 1880. Harry New was associated with him in the purchase. Mr. New had been county clerk of Marion county, quartermaster of Indiana during the civil war, United States treasurer and consul general to London. The paper was sold to Charles L. Henry in the winter of 1902-3 and by him oold to George F. McCulloch in June, 1904. It was then merged into The Star. The first issue of tfhe Journal as a daily was Dec 12, 1842. First as a weekly, then a semi-weekly, then a tri-weekly, it was printed as a daily for more than sixty years, being forced to suspend when the COfflF petition of commercial newspapers became too strong for the political papers that maintained a fearless attitude on all matters as opposed to that class of modern journals that have been edited in the counting room. The volumes are of great value to the historical survey and

will doubtless always remain with that important organization.