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Article: 'President McKinley's paper' evolves.(Election '96: How We Did, What We Did)
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- The Masthead
- Article date:
- March 22, 1997
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In 177 years Canton, Ohio's, newspaper, The Repository, had never endorsed a Democrat for president.
"President McKinley's paper," they called it, and it really was, owned by his wife's family. In the 1896 presidential election, run from the front porch of the McKinley home there, special editions of The Repository featuring the daily speeches of William McKinley were printed each evening and sent round America by train.
Far into the modern era, it continued as a Republican paper editorially and in news columns. For four decades, through the 1970s, The Repository was run by Clayton G. Horn, a legendary Ohio editor and rabid Republican, who once banned his ...