Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . e McDonough Independent,which was the first newspaper issued in thecounty, was launched on the journalistic was a six-column folio, published by GeorgeW. Smith and Theodore L. Terry, the formerhaving previously been proprietor of a paperat Beardstown, 111. This was long before theday of railroads in this section of the State,and during the period of muddy thoroughfares,slow stages and an entire absence of educational or literary surroundings. In fact, all thesettlers were too busy making a living to thinkof such things; they were certainly sho
Historical encyclopedia of Illinois, ed . e McDonough Independent,which was the first newspaper issued in thecounty, was launched on the journalistic was a six-column folio, published by GeorgeW. Smith and Theodore L. Terry, the formerhaving previously been proprietor of a paperat Beardstown, 111. This was long before theday of railroads in this section of the State,and during the period of muddy thoroughfares,slow stages and an entire absence of educational or literary surroundings. In fact, all thesettlers were too busy making a living to thinkof such things; they were certainly short oneducation, and long on hard work. The First Editor.—Mr. Smith was a strictDemocrat of the .lacksonian school, but in orderto gain a foothold in the community, he pub-lished, as its name indicated, an independentpaper bearing the usual motto—Independentin All Things: Neutral in None. But in spiteof the motto. Smith could not hide his predi-lections; his individual politics would crop neither the Whigs nor the community at.
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