The Cleveland News was a daily and Sunday American newspaper in Cleveland , Ohio . It was published from 1905 until 1960 when it was absorbed by the rival paper The Cleveland Press .
31-654: The Cleveland News traces its antecedents to 1868, when The Cleveland Leader titled its late edition the Evening News . When a rival newspaper, the Cleveland Herald , ended publication in 1885, the Leader acquired rights to the name and retitled its evening edition the News & Herald . In 1905, investment banker and commodities broker Charles Augustus Otis, Jr. — who the previous year had purchased
62-540: A City Council divided over his exercise of power and aspects of his agenda, but also resistance from citizens. Anton C. Hesing derided him as "Joseph I, Dictator ". The stress of the job of mayor impaired Medill's health. In August 1873, he appointed Lester L. Bond as Acting Mayor for the remaining 3½ months of his term, and went to Europe on a convalescent tour. Medill married Katherine "Kitty" Patrick on September 2, 1852, and they had three daughters, Katherine, Elinor and Josephine. Medill died on March 16, 1899, at
93-557: A delegate to the Illinois Constitutional convention . Medill joined with Samuel Snowden Hayes and Rosell Hough (prominent Chicago Democrats ) in order to oppose conditions of military draft laws during the American Civil War , feeling that the government was demanding too many troops to be drafted out of Cook County . On February 23, 1865, they met with President Lincoln. On February 27, they had
124-507: A meeting with both Lincoln and Secretary of War Edwin Stanton . Stanton rejected their concerns. Lincoln castigated them, particularly chewing-out Medill. Lincoln argued that Chicagoans and Medill's newspaper had been most uncompromising in their opposition to the south's stance on slavery, and therefore should muster the men demanded of them to supply the Union with troops. In 1871 , after
155-484: A special act reimbursing the city for $ 2.9 million the city had expended on the state-owned Illinois and Michigan Canal . Medill also sought federal financial help. Medill took advantage of his connections in Washington, D.C. , to seek such aid. In his third month in office, he wrote Vice President Schuyler Colfax to urge the passage of a tariff rebate that would help increase the supply of inexpensive material for
186-690: The American Civil War . The Tribune ' s chief adversary through this period was the Chicago Times , which supported the Democrats . Medill was among Chicago's Protestant elites (see, WASP ). His rabid anti-Irish sentiment was published daily in The Chicago Tribune. He regularly dismissed the Irish as lazy and shiftless. “Who does not know that the most depraved, debased, worthless and irredeemable drunkards and sots which curse
217-758: The Cleveland World — bought both the News & Herald and the Evening Plain Dealer , and merged the trio into the single afternoon daily paper, the World-News , which debuted June 12, 1905. It became the Cleveland News on September 13, 1905. Daniel R. Hanna Sr., who had bought the morning newspaper the Cleveland Leader in 1910, bought the Cleveland News from Otis two years later, and consolidated operations in
248-547: The Great Chicago Fire , Medill was elected mayor of Chicago as the candidate of the emergency fusion "Union Fireproof" party, defeating Charles C. P. Holden , and served as mayor for two years. Medill was sworn in as mayor on December 4, 1871. As mayor, Medill gained more power for the mayor's office, created Chicago's first public library, enforced blue laws , and reformed the police and fire departments. During his mayoralty, Medill worked successfully to have
279-644: The Illinois General Assembly modify the city charter to increase mayoral authority. As mayor-elect, on December 4, 1871, he tapped Judge Murray F. Tuley to draft a "Mayor's Bill" to be submitted to the General Assembly in its next session. After successful lobbying by Medill and Tuley, the bill passed on March 9, 1872. It went into effect July 1, 1872, and provided the mayor with the new authority to, In his first year as mayor, Medill received very little legislative resistance from
310-631: The Leader had been sold to the Plain Dealer , just four years after moving into the Leader Building in 1913. Joseph Medill Joseph Medill (April 6, 1823 – March 16, 1899) was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune , and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873. Joseph Medill
341-560: The Leader . From a program celebrating the opening of the Leader Building in 1913, "In 1847 an anti-slavery Whig paper which had been published for about a year in Olmsted Falls , now, as then, a small village, was moved to Cleveland and changed from a weekly to a daily, retaining the name of "True. Democrat." That event is commonly reckoned the beginning of the Cleveland Leader ..." The Leader's initial editorial bias
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#1732772628103372-679: The Press ' 314,000. The latter paper was renamed the Cleveland Press and News . The Plain Dealer moved into the former News headquarters. The Cleveland Leader The Cleveland Leader was a newspaper published in Cleveland from 1854 to 1917. The Cleveland Leader was created in 1854 by Edwin Cowles , who merged a variety of abolitionist , pre-Republican Party titles under
403-568: The Tribune ' s part-owner, Captain J. D. Webster, asked Medill to become the paper's managing editor. Medill was further encouraged to come to Chicago by Dr. Charles H. Ray of Galena, Illinois , and editor Horace Greeley of the New York Tribune . In 1855, Medill sold his interest in the Leader to Cowles and bought the Tribune in partnership with Dr. Ray and Alfred Cowles (Edwin's brother). Under Medill's management,
434-596: The Tribune flourished, becoming one of the largest newspapers in Chicago. Medill served as its managing editor until 1864, when Horace White became editor-in-chief. At that time Medill left day-to-day operations of the Tribune for political activities. But White clashed with Medill over the presidential election of 1872 . So, in 1873 Medill bought additional equity from Cowles and from White, becoming majority owner. In 1874, he replaced White as editor-in-chief. Medill served as editor-in-chief until his death. Medill
465-510: The Chicago City Council. While he vetoed what was an unprecedented eleven City Council ordinances that year, most narrowly were involved with specific financial practices considered wasteful and none of the vetoes were overridden. He used his new powers to appoint the members of the newly constituted Chicago Board of Education and the commissioners of its constituted public library . His appointments were approved unanimously by
496-465: The City Council. Medill sought funding for the recovery of Chicago. Medill had strongly lobbied on behalf of the city to receive state financial aid, taking advantage of his connections with state legislators in the state capitol of Springfield, Illinois . While, at the time, state law prohibited the direct appropriation of state funds to the city, Medill was able to get the legislature to pass
527-624: The Sunday and daily Cleveland News , which in 1926 moved to a new publishing plant at East 18th Street and Superior Avenue. After barely surviving the beginnings of the Great Depression , the News in 1932 was transferred by Hanna's heirs to the newly formed Forest City Publishing Company , which had also taken control of The Plain Dealer . Forest City ceased publishing the Sunday News on January 3, 1933, while continuing to publish
558-409: The community are Irish Catholics?” This came even as Irish laborers worked feverishly to complete Chicago's stately St. Patrick's church at Adams and Desplaines Streets in the mid-1850s. In 1864, Medill left the Tribune editorship for political activity, which occupied him for the next ten years. He was appointed by President Grant to the first Civil Service Commission . In 1870, he was elected as
589-403: The construction of wood frame buildings in city limits. Medill was a strong Republican loyalist who supported President Grant for re-election in 1872. This caused a breach with Tribune editor, Horace White after White supported the breakaway Liberal Republicans , reformists who nominated Horace Greeley for president. In his second year as mayor, tensions arose as he began to further utilize
620-475: The daily, staunchly Republican Cleveland News . Forest City announced the sale of the News to the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, owner of the Cleveland Press , on January 23, 1960. As Sterling E. Graham, president of Forest City, characterized his paper, "Ever since its beginning 55 years ago, the News ' fate was to be a third newspaper." Its net circulation at the time was 134,550, compared with
651-486: The finest examples of late Victorian American poster art. Despite the marketing efforts, the Leader continued its decline. Charles Otis began a consolidation of local newspapers with the Cleveland World in 1904, and the Leader in 1905. Through Otis, ownership of the Leader passed through various hands in the famous Hanna family, via Marcus Hanna 's son-in-law Medill McCormick , married to Ruth Hanna McCormick , then to Daniel R. Hanna, Marcus Hanna's son. By 1917,
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#1732772628103682-719: The meeting, which resulted in the consolidation of the Know-Nothing , Whig , and Free Soil Parties into the Republican Party." The Leader quickly became the most influential newspaper in Ohio. "By 1875 its circulation of 13,000 was double that of the Herald and 5 times that of the Plain Dealer . Cowles kept the paper technologically up to date, importing Cleveland's first perfecting press in 1877 and pioneering
713-543: The new Leader Building at East 6th Street and Superior Avenue. The Plain Dealer in turn bought the Cleveland Leader from Hanna in 1917, and the Sunday Leader became the Sunday News-Leader and later the Sunday News . Hanna remained involved, and in an effort to compete with the more successful Cleveland Press after World War I , he hired Arthur B. "Mickey" McBride as circulation manager for
744-595: The new powers given to the mayor. At the first 1873 meeting of the City Council, Medill announced that he would be using the power to select the chairmen of members of the council committees. He appointed his loyalists to lead most important committees, while aldermen of wards consisting of immigrant populations received lesser consideration for appointments. In the first three months of 1873 alone, Medill practiced his veto power on five City Council ordinances. Medill and his police superintendent Elmer Washburn cracked down on gambling . Medill met not only resistance from
775-435: The reconstruction of the city. Despite strong opposition from lumber interests, the legislation succeeded in passing. Medill also convinced President Grant to give a personal $ 1,000 contribution to aid the city's reconstruction. More than $ 5 million in gifts and loans were collected from people and cities across the world. Taking Medill's lead, on February 12, 1872, the City Council approved 26-6 an ordinance that prohibited
806-483: The use of electrotype plates in Ohio." After Cowles' death in 1890, the Leader began a swift decline, as competition from the Plain Dealer and other newspapers took advantage of the huge void left by Cowles personal control. Many examples of the Leader's poster art from the period immediately after Cowles' death in the 1890s are included in a collection at the New York Public Library as some of
837-628: Was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1846. After joining the bar, he started a law practice with George W. McIlvaine . They dissolved their practice after three years. In 1859 Medill purchased the Coshocton Democratic Whig then renamed the paper as the Democratic Whig. In 1853, Medill and Edwin Cowles started the Leader , a newspaper in Cleveland , Ohio . (It was later absorbed by The Plain Dealer . ) In 1854,
868-572: Was a leading Republican in Chicago. Under Medill, the Tribune became the leading Republican newspaper in Chicago. Medill was strongly anti-slavery, supporting both the Free-Soil cause and Abolitionism . Medill was a major supporter of Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Medill and the Tribune were instrumental in Lincoln's presidential nomination, and were equally supportive of the Union cause during
899-703: Was born April 6, 1823, in Saint John , New Brunswick , British North America , to Margaret and William Medill. His parents were Scots-Irish . In 1832, the family moved to Massillon, Ohio . He grew up on a farm and was taught English grammar, Latin, logic and philosophy from Reverend Hawkins, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Canton . He graduated from the Massillon Academy in 1843. He read law under Hiram Griswold and
930-559: Was explicitly political from its founding. Cowles' March 5, 1890 New York Times obituary claims, "In the Winder ;[ sic ] of 1854-5 the germ of the Republican Party was formed in the Leader editorial rooms as a meeting was held there which resulted in the first Republican Convention, which was held at Pittsburg. Col. R. C. Parsons , Joseph Medill , John C. Vaughn, Judge R. P. Spaulding, and J. F. Keeler, were at
961-615: Was reflective of the antebellum period in Ohio; pro-Union, anti-slavery, but also according to several sources, virulently anti-Catholic. The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History notes, "Cowles was as outspoken a nativist as he was a Republican, heading the Cleveland chapter of the anti-Catholic Order of the American Union, and carrying on an editorial war with Manly Tello, editor of the Catholic Universe ." The Leader