Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1918 — Chief Executives and the Press. [ARTICLE]

Chief Executives and the Press.

When John Adams became president* in 1797, be was even more severely attacked In the press than Washington had been. But his administration fought the attacks. Armed by the sedition law, which was passed the following year, it sought to annihilate the papers which it could not force to surrender. In the fight, which lasted four years, the people rallied to the support of the papers and defeated Adams in the election of 1800 by putting Thomas Jefferson in the presidential chair.