Benjamin Gratz Brown (May 28, 1826 – December 13, 1885) was an American politician. He was a U.S. Senator , the 20th Governor of Missouri , and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872 .
145-687: Born in Frankfort, Kentucky , Brown established a legal practice in St. Louis , Missouri. Both of his grandfathers, John Brown and Jesse Bledsoe , represented Kentucky in the Senate. After settling in St. Louis, Brown won election to the Missouri House of Representatives . He became an ally of Thomas Hart Benton and Francis Preston Blair Jr. in the struggle for control of the state Democratic Party against pro-slavery forces. As
290-522: A humid subtropical climate with four distinct seasons. Winter is generally cool with some snowfall. Spring and fall are both mild and relatively warm, with ample precipitation and thunderstorm activity. Summers are hot and humid. As of the 2020 Census , there were 28,602 people, 12,434 households, and 6,053 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783 per square mile (688/km ). There were 12,938 housing units at an average density of 885.1 per square mile (341.7/km ). The racial makeup of
435-601: A promontory with a view of downtown. As of 2016, the city's largest industry was public administration with 28% of the workforce. Manufacturing totaled over 12% of the workforce. Frankfort is adjacent to Interstate 64 , and Interstate 75 is nearby; general aviation access is via the Capital City Airport , and commercial air travel is available through Blue Grass Airport in Lexington . The town of Frankfort likely received its name from an event that took place in
580-523: A 250,000-circulation paper. When the change in ownership took effect on January 27, 1984, the Post-Dispatch switched to morning publication the same day, making it head-to-head competition. In August 1986 the paper filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . At the time the newspaper listed $ 8 million in debts. In December the newspaper suspended publication, and the Bankruptcy Court appointed
725-587: A 99-day shutdown, the Globe-Democrat published again, with a screaming headline, “We’re Back!” In an editorial, which also was used as a double-page paid advertisement in the June 6, 1959 issue of the trade magazine Editor and Publisher, Amberg reviewed the strike and declared that, in the end, the new plan was “no better in any single respect than past practices” and that in at least three important matters it provided less benefits. The Guild, in its own two-page ad in
870-414: A Democrat-allied and bitter foe for decades as well as a contender for newspaper readers. The evening Post-Dispatch started its existence far behind the Globe-Democrat, but soon exceeded it. By 1914 it reached 176,659 daily circulation, while the Globe-Democrat's was 134,671, In Sunday circulation, both papers had passed the 100,000 mark, but by 1915 the Post-Dispatch was far in the lead. As for
1015-464: A border state could prove an important factor in his 1860 campaign. The paper strenuously supported Lincoln in his 1858 senatorial campaign against Stephen Douglas. By 1857 there was a split into factions between conservatives under Benton, strong in rural areas, and the editor and owners of the Missouri Democrat who were to declare openly during the year for emancipation and were devoted to
1160-482: A century, had cooperated with the company in a “healthy system of give and take.” Only the Guild, he said, with pay scales already the highest in the nation, had refused to make any concessions. The paper offered to deposit sums into a jointly administered bank account and to negotiate in the remaining 10 months of the Guild contract, but said it could not immediately do financially what the Guild demanded. One week after
1305-475: A female householder with no husband present, 5.1% had a male householder with no wife present, and 45.7% were non-families. 38.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.12 and the average family size was 2.83. The age distribution was 19.8% under 18, 13.1% from 18 to 24, 26.6% from 25 to 44, 25.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 or older. The median age
1450-518: A funded pension plan “comparable” to that of the Pulitzer Publishing Co., owner of the Post-Dispatch. The Globe-Democrat noted that the Guild had repeatedly in the past praised its policy, set up by Ray, of paying pensions to retired employees out of current earnings, along with its continuing full payments on their life and health insurance. Amberg explained that 11 other unions with which the company had contracts, some of which dated back almost
1595-427: A gambling operation were among many examples of the Globe-Democrat's vigor. The women's section was greatly enhanced; Amberg noticed that too many of his papers were being bought by men on their way to work instead of being delivered to the homes where women would have the opportunity to read them. New features and articles appealing to women were added, and the paper began sponsoring two big fashion shows each year and
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#17328441377501740-485: A graft ring in St. Louis and that an investigation was underway. On May 10 the distilleries were seized. On May 11, McKee and Houser started negotiations with Fishback to buy his paper. Coincidence? A sale followed on May 12, 1875, which the Globe called a “merging of the two papers,” ending three years of fierce competition and the beginning of a metropolitan paper that was to survive all but one of its contemporaries. The new name
1885-477: A location for the capital. They were John Allen and John Edwards (both from Bourbon County ), Henry Lee (from Mason ), Thomas Kennedy (from Madison ), and Robert Todd (from Fayette ). A number of communities competed for this honor, but Frankfort won. According to early histories, the offer of Andrew Holmes' log house as capitol for seven years, a number of town lots, £50 worth of locks and hinges, 10 boxes of glass, 1,500 pounds of nails, and $ 3,000 in gold helped
2030-450: A lukewarm endorsement on 1856 to James Buchanan, the Democrat candidate for president, rather than John C. Fremont, the candidate of the new Republican Party and the son-in-law of prominent free-soil politician Thomas H. Benton, one of Missouri's first two U.S. senators, whose political fortunes had been championed by the Missouri Democrat since its founding. Benton, a Democrat party loyalist to
2175-456: A million lines, its daily circulation by 60,000, and its Sunday circulation by 150,000. One indication of reader and advertiser loyalty was that in the first week of publication after the strike the daily run was over 330,000, advertisers flocked back, and Amberg declared hopefully that he anticipated pre-strike normalcy within two weeks. But before the two weeks were up, another strike caused both papers to cease publication when on June 10
2320-481: A more pedestrian-oriented scale at the complex, to encourage street activity. Frankfort is home to three distilleries including the Buffalo Trace Distillery ( Kentucky Bourbon ), Castle & Key Distillery (spirits), and Three Boys Farm Distillery (bourbon and whiskey). In 2018, thousands of teachers protested at the city in response to Senate Bill 151 having been passed on 29 March 2018. The bill
2465-571: A movement that unsuccessfully sought to replace Lincoln as the 1864 Republican nominee. After the war, Brown strongly opposed President Andrew Johnson 's Reconstruction policies and supported the Freedmen's Bureau bills . Brown resigned from the Senate in 1867 but helped found the Liberal Republican Party in 1870. The party chose Brown as its nominee for governor, and he defeated incumbent Republican Governor Joseph W. McClurg . Brown sought
2610-469: A sandbar in the Missouri River. Reynolds was not hurt, but Brown was severely wounded in the knee. The issue of slavery became a primary issue in the mid-1850s across the nation and certainly in St. Louis, where slaves were sold at the courthouse and riots and political marches were not uncommon. Amid the 21 papers that were published in St. Louis at the time, views were heated. The Missouri Democrat gave
2755-550: A series on railroad problems that caused Sen. George Smathers of Florida to say that the paper had more to do than any other force in creating the sympathetic approach which Congress and the White House took on this issue; and stimulating interest in community welfare through its annual Women of Achievement Awards, Man of the Year Award and, to state officials, Meritorious Public Service Award. The Inland Press Association also gave
2900-582: A speech in 1857 against a joint resolution opposing emancipation. The speech marked the beginning of the Free Soil movement in Missouri. He was a leader of the movement. After that, he edited the Missouri Democrat between 1854 and 1859. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Missouri in 1857. On August 26, 1856, he fought a duel on Bloody Island (Mississippi River) with Thomas C. Reynolds (then
3045-571: A struggle against the pro- slavery faction for control of Missouri's Democratic Party . He was a correspondent for the Missouri Republican at the Treaty of Fort Laramie (1851) and served as the secretary at the treaty negotiations. He married Mary Gunn (1842–1888) in 1858, and together they had six children. Brown became a member of the Missouri House of Representatives and served there between 1852 and 1858. An able lawyer in St. Louis, Brown made
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#17328441377503190-458: A trustee to seek new owners. In January 1986 Veritas Corporation purchased the paper for $ 500,000 and, after a 51-day hiatus, the paper resumed publication on January 27. Veritas, formed by businessmen John B. Prentis and William E. Franke, committed to contribute $ 4 million to the newspaper's operations. That did not prove sufficient, and the Globe-Democrat ended publication on October 29 after
3335-444: A vigorous, effective leadership in community, state and national affairs by giving big play to public projects. In 1958 the Globe-Democrat was given the 10th annual Inland Press Association award for outstanding community service for a wide variety of community projects. Some 20 projects were cited, among them: Editorials and articles promoting passage of a bill allowing the funds of Missouri to draw interest (adding millions of dollars to
3480-408: A weekend package. The contract printing arrangement was unusual in certain aspects, but it followed a national trend, dictated by rising costs, of using one set of presses to print morning and afternoon papers. Amberg said the new arrangement was made necessary by the demands of the Guild, explaining that even the Guild's third and least expensive proposal would cost the newspaper approximately $ 550,000
3625-416: A year for 20 years – more profit than the paper made any year since the boom days of the war, and he saw no prospects for making that much. Newhouse said the Guild's insistence on a funded pension plan meant “we had no choice. They had a gun at our heads.” The sale of the building and joint printing brought about another issue. Management asked that it be given freedom to discharge personnel not needed under
3770-408: A “Modern Living Show” each September. The display of home furnishings and equipment was soon drawing more than 200,000 people. The women's section soon gained the same excellence that the sports and financial sections of the paper always had, and home delivered circulation by 1960 increased 60,000 over the past five years. News coverage had improved so much that by early 1959 the paper could challenge
3915-490: Is now called Fort Hill . The Confederate Army also occupied Frankfort for a short time, starting on 3 September 1862, the only such time that Confederate forces took control of a Union capitol. The Clinton Street High School , a segregated public school for African American students in Frankfort operated from either 1882 or 1884 until 1928. On 3 February 1900, William Goebel was assassinated in Frankfort while walking to
4060-652: The Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expense . Following Lincoln's assassination, Brown was vehemently opposed to new President Andrew Johnson 's moderate plan of Reconstruction . He also supported the Radical-sponsored Civil Rights Bill and Freedmen's Bureau Bill. Brown left the Senate in 1867 because of ill health. In 1870, dissatisfied with the Missouri Republicans, he joined
4205-472: The Globe-Democrat , the two papers had operated under a joint operating agreement , with the protection of the Newspaper Preservation Act , which allowed two competing papers to have some joint operations free of antitrust violation, in return for which the failing paper of the two must continue operation unless it can show proof of irreversible financial losses. The Post-Dispatch , owned by
4350-590: The Kentucky River , Frankfort is the principal city of the Frankfort, Kentucky Micropolitan Statistical Area , which includes all of Franklin and Anderson counties. Before Frankfort was founded, the site was a ford across the Kentucky River, along one of the great buffalo trails used as highways in colonial America . English explorers first visited the area in the 1750s. The site evidently received its name after an incident in 1780, when pioneer Stephen Frank
4495-698: The Louisville and Nashville Railroad . Until the mid-1950s, Union Station served Louisville - Ashland sections of the C&;O's Sportsman . Until 1971, the C&O's George Washington stopped in Frankfort. Nation: States: Territories: St. Louis Democrat The St. Louis Globe-Democrat was a daily print newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri , from 1852 until 1986. The paper began operations on July 1, 1852, as The Daily Missouri Democrat , changing its name to The Missouri Democrat in 1868, then to The St. Louis Democrat in 1873. It merged with
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4640-539: The St. Louis Globe (founded in 1872) to form the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in 1875. In their earliest days, the predecessor newspapers which eventually merged to form the St. Louis Globe-Democrat were staunch advocates of freedom and anti-slavery in Missouri. The Globe-Democrat , colloquially called the Globe, eventually became the most widely read morning paper in St. Louis, with a huge circulation , and used this support to promote civic responsibility and great causes regarding urban improvements. The newspaper
4785-567: The U.S. Congress (1789−91). While in Congress, he introduced the bill granting statehood to Kentucky. After statehood , he was elected by the state legislature as one of the state's U.S. Senators . In 1796, the Kentucky General Assembly appropriated funds to provide a house to accommodate the governor; it was completed two years later. The Old Governor's Mansion is claimed to be the oldest official executive residence still in use in
4930-571: The Union Army during the first half of the Civil War , raising a regiment (the 4th U.S. Reserves) and serving as its colonel . He recruited over 1,100 soldiers for his regiment, many of whom were St. Louis-area German-Americans , a key constituency that Brown courted for his political advantage. Brown resigned from the Army after he was elected in late 1863 as an Radical Unionist to the U.S. Senate to fill
5075-588: The United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 14.6 square miles (37.8 km ), of which 14.3 square miles (37.0 km ) is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km ) is water. Frankfort does not have a commercial airport and travelers fly into Blue Grass Airport in Lexington , the closest; Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport near Covington or Louisville International Airport in Louisville . Capital City Airport serves general and military aviation. Frankfort has
5220-597: The capitol on the way to the Kentucky Legislature. Former Secretary of State Caleb Powers and several others were later found guilty of a conspiracy to murder Goebel, however all were later pardoned. The Mayo–Underwood School , the successor to the Clinton Street High School, was a public school for African American students in Frankfort and operated from 1929 until 1964. The school was torn down as part of an urban renewal plan, and to make way for
5365-516: The fourth smallest capital city in the United States. The city operates nine parks: Other recreation in the area: Kentucky State University is located with the Frankfort city limits. KSU (also known as KYSU) is a public historically black university and an 1890 land-grant institution . Two public school districts serve the city, with three public high schools within the city limits. Frankfort Independent School District serves
5510-461: The poverty line , including 38.7% of those under age 18 and 7.5% of those age 65 or over. Frankfort is the focal point of a micropolitan statistical area consisting of Frankfort and Franklin County as well as adjacent Lawrenceburg and Anderson County . The city is also classified in a combined statistical area with Lexington and Richmond to the east. Frankfort's municipal population makes it
5655-468: The 1780s. Native Americans attacked a group of early European colonists from Bryan Station , who were on their way to make salt at Mann's Lick in Jefferson County. Pioneer Stephen Frank was killed at the Kentucky River and the settlers thereafter called the crossing "Frank's Ford". This name was later elided to Frankfort. In 1786, James Wilkinson purchased a 260-acre (110 ha) tract of land on
5800-639: The 1850s progressed, Brown continued to speak against slavery , and he helped found the Missouri Republican Party . During the Civil War , Brown worked to keep Missouri in the Union . In 1863, he was elected to the Senate as a member of the Radical Union Party . In the Senate, he aligned with the Radical Republicans and opposed many of President Abraham Lincoln 's policies. He was part of
5945-499: The 1960 census, St. Louis was one of the 10 most populous cities in the United States. As for the telegraph, "It was in the city that the daily newspaper press, which spread rapidly in the wake of the telegraph after 1850, found its most habitual readers." More than a score of newspapers in the early years vied for that readership. Before the Civil War the states and nation were divided as to whether new territories should be admitted to
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6090-707: The Capital Plaza. The Capital Plaza was comprised the Capital Plaza Office Tower , the tallest building in the city, the Capital Plaza Hotel (formerly the Holiday Inn, Frankfort), and the Fountain Place Shoppes. The Capital Plaza Office Tower opened in 1972 and became a visual landmark for the center of the city. By the early 2000s, maintenance of the concrete structures had been neglected and
6235-519: The Constitution; and that it was the solemn duty of journalism to maintain the freedom of the press. Yost would remain the editorial page editor for 46 years; he retired in 1935 but returned in 1940, dying a year later. The paper maintained its support of Republicans, without the bombast of earlier times, and although it could hardly at that point be called a crusading paper, it conducted lively civic improvement campaigns. One such campaign
6380-437: The Globe editor “more of a marriage than a birth,” the St. Louis Globe-Democrat under the editorship of Joseph Burbridge McCullough achieved great success. An acknowledged leader in new journalistic practices and dedicated to increasing circulation, the editor extended the influence of his paper throughout Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Illinois, Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, where it was so widely circulated, with correspondents in all
6525-510: The Globe focused heavily on local issues and the Post on national and international news) and editorial positions, where each had a national reputation—the Globe-Democrat as a strong conservative voice and the Post-Dispatch a strong liberal voice. The animus of each paper for the other wasn’t so apparent in the business end of their operations. Following a lengthy and debilitating strike in 1959 at
6670-430: The Globe-Democrat honorable mention for its outstanding coverage of city, state, and federal affairs. Almost every issue at the time and for years thereafter gave evidence that the paper was the crusading Globe-Democrat of old. Getting aldermen ousted who did not live in the district they represented; leading a bruising campaign to allow branch banking in Missouri; warning of speed traps; and exposing police involvement in
6815-500: The Joint Operating Agreement, which lessened any attractiveness to prospective buyers). In early 1984 the paper was purchased by Jeffrey M. Gluck, which brought an end to all joint operations, and Gluck had to find his own printers and set up his own advertising, circulation, news, production and other departments from scratch in just a matter of weeks, something perhaps unprecedented in modern journalism history, certainly for
6960-502: The Liberal Republican and Democratic parties. Greeley died on November 29 of illness, before the electoral college could vote, and the electoral votes (63 of 66) that were to have been for Greeley were split among four others, including Brown, who received eighteen of those electoral votes. The Republicans, incumbent president Ulysses S. Grant and the vice presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Henry Wilson of Massachusetts , won
7105-469: The Midwest could be compared to baseball teams. The Chicago Tribune played a fine game in right field, and the Post-Dispatch played a good game in left field, “albeit occasionally over the foul line,” but the proper place for the Globe-Democrat should be as “a good hard-hitting center fielder.” The analogy pointed out what guided the paper after Ray's death – to battle for St. Louis, to give emphasis to crusades on
7250-472: The Missouri Democrat, was his running mate. Brown and Blair had gone to the Liberal Republican national convention in Cincinnati, where they made a deal to have Brown placed on the ticket with Greeley. Old affronts and differences among various past and present Missouri Democrat editors and owners sometimes made strange bedfellows or broken loyalties. The development of the telegraph and overseas cable in
7395-499: The Missouri Legislature; Blair was soon after elected to Congress and Brown was later a U.S. senator, Missouri governor, and vice-presidential candidate. Brown was going to engage in a horse pistol duel at ten paces in 1855 but his opponent backed out after Brown had already arrived at the dueling grounds. A year later another vitriolic Brown editorial ended in a duel with Thomas C. Reynolds, the U.S. District Attorney, fought on
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#17328441377507540-506: The Post-Dispatch for leadership. When Newhouse bought the paper in March 1955, the Globe-Democrat trailed the Post-Dispatch by nearly 100,000 circulation both daily and Sunday. By September 1958, the quarterly Audit Bureau of Circulations report showed that the Globe-Democrat had gained 44,000 readers and the Post had lost 17,000. Advertising gains were also substantial; in 1958 the Globe-Democrat gained more advertising linage than any other paper in
7685-507: The Post-Dispatch to take a stand. Editorials became more forceful, Amberg himself often writing the lead editorial. Political endorsements for state and local offices in Missouri and Illinois were given to both Republican and Democrat candidates depending upon who seemed best qualified – a far cry from a century earlier when founder McKee pledged his paper to the Republican Party. The paper also boosted its local coverage and evinced
7830-482: The Pulitzer Publishing Company, handled all production and printing for both papers. The Globe-Democrat relinquished having an edition on Sunday, the most lucrative day for advertising and circulation revenue, since there was not press capacity to produce both the Post and Globe at the same time. Advertising was sold jointly, and profits were shared equally. The Globe-Democrat’s competitive market position
7975-593: The Radical faction of the Republican Party (headed by former editor Brown) that pushed for immediate emancipation of slaves as opposed to the Conservative faction (headed by Blair, part owner of the Missouri Democrat) who favored gradual emancipation. It began agitating in 1863 for a new state constitution that would free slaves. In January 1865 a constitutional convention was held, followed by an election ratifying
8120-565: The Republic, it started the last quarter of the 19th century with a significant circulation lead over the Globe-Democrat, soon lost it, and then regained it until 1902, thereafter falling consistently while the Globe-Democrat climbed steadily. By 1915 the Globe-Democrat daily circulation was 26,277 more and the Sunday circulation 79,083 more than the Republic, and it printed 151,280 more lines of display and classified advertising (12,607 inches) annually than
8265-465: The Republic, the Globe-Democrat claimed daily circulation of well over 200,000, far above that of the Post-Dispatch, with its 160,043. Ray, nephew of William McKee, a co-founder of the paper's forerunner, was 34 when he became publisher of the Globe-Democrat in 1918 as the youngest publisher of a major metropolitan daily in the United States. He had served at the paper in a variety of positions since his graduation from high school. Ray soon negotiated
8410-449: The Republic. Competition from other St. Louis papers was negligible. One side note is that as late as 1916 the Globe-Democrat had the largest German-American constituency of any paper in the English language, reflecting the city's large German-born population. The decline of the Republic from a number of miscues and poor management made its death inevitable, and in its last year
8555-490: The Spirit of St. Louis; played a key role in getting the long-planned Gateway Arch actually built; and through its news investigations and editorial advocacy brought about numerous improvements at the local, state and even national level (an example of the latter being its series on national railroad problems that led to new federal legislation). These matters and others are discussed below. The Early Years, 1852-1865 What became
8700-519: The St. Louis District Attorney) over the slavery issue. Reynolds was not hurt but Brown was shot in the leg and limped for the rest of his life. Brown became a founding member of the Republican Party in Missouri. Throughout the 1860s, he and Blair contested control of the state's Republican party. He worked to prevent Missouri from seceding from the Union in 1861. After that, he served as an officer in
8845-529: The St. Louis Globe-Democrat was a product and beneficiary of two developments in the mid-19th century—an explosive population growth and a new technology, the telegraph. The population surge, in St. Louis as in some other cities in the United States and elsewhere, was due to such factors as immigration, the expansion of manufacturing and industry, and river transportation advances. The St. Louis population more than doubled from 77,860 in 1850 to 160,773 in 1860 and then almost doubled again to 310,860 in 1870; Until after
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#17328441377508990-483: The St. Louis papers was hard to come by due to the tight money economy of the time, but the Globe's circulation grew steadily, and it claimed in November 1873 to have the largest circulation of any St. Louis paper, while the Missouri Democrat's circulation declined. By 1874 Fishback offered to sell his paper to McKee and Houser, but the duo's editor advised against it, saying extinction (due to poor editorial leadership)
9135-410: The Union as non-slave (free-soil) states or slave states. The predecessor newspapers which eventually merged to form the St. Louis Globe-Democrat were staunch advocates of freedom and anti-slavery in Missouri, at the time a border state with significant Southern values. Controversies with rival papers were commonplace. The first editor of the Missouri Democrat, Frank Blair, and the editor of another paper,
9280-484: The Union, were soon involved in a gun fight; neither was injured In 1853 the Missouri Democrat bought the Union and absorbed it. The paper increased its local news coverage without losing sight of the fact that politics was the chief purpose of the paper. In the first two years of the paper's existence, the Missouri Democrat's ownership shifted three times and had three editors who directed its political writings. Two of those editors, Blair and B. Gratz Brown, were in
9425-671: The United States. In 1829, Gideon Shryock designed the Old Capitol , Kentucky's third, in Greek Revival style. It served Kentucky as its capitol from 1830 to 1910. The separate settlement known as South Frankfort was annexed by the city on 3 January 1850. The Argus of Western America was published in Frankfort from 1808 until 1830. During the American Civil War , the Union Army built fortifications overlooking Frankfort on what
9570-476: The Weekly Globe-Democrat, which had a circulation of 245,157 in 1925, because transportation facilities had improved so much that the daily could now serve the areas which once depended mostly on a weekly, and in 1929 the combined daily and Sunday circulation passed the half-million mark. The “Flush Twenties” brought a big boost in advertising. So taxed were the Globe-Democrat facilities by its success that
9715-589: The Whiskey Ring Fraud, centered in St. Louis and one of the largest scandals of the Grant administration. It involved the diversion of tax revenue in a conspiracy among government agents, politicians, whiskey distillers and distributors for various purposes (personal profit, campaign expenses, or whatever). On May 6, 1875, the Missouri Democrat published its first report of the existence of the Ring, saying there were rumors of
9860-567: The area, including Capital Day School, Frankfort Christian Academy, and Good Shepherd Catholic School. Frankfort has a lending library , Paul Sawyier Public Library, named in 1965 after the watercolor artist Paul Sawyier whose many paintings document the history of the area. Frankfort Transit provides deviated fixed-route and demand-response transit service throughout the city. U.S. Route 60 and U.S. Route 460 pass east–west through Frankfort. U.S. Route 127 and U.S. Route 421 pass north–south through Frankfort. Interstate 64 passes to
10005-461: The center of town; the Downtown and South Frankfort districts are opposite one another on each side of the river. The suburban areas on either side of the river valley are known as East and West Frankfort. Frankfort has four distinct seasons; winter is normally cool with some snowfall, while summers are hot and humid. Because of the city's location on the Kentucky River, it has flooded many times, with
10150-440: The changed production system, but the Guild refused to accept the proposal because it considered that job security was at stake. An assortment of leaders offered mediation services in hopes that the Globe-Democrat could resume publication. These ranged from Missouri Gov. James Blair, several legislative leaders, and Harold Gibbons, right-hand man to Teamster Union President James Hoffa, to Archbishop Joseph E. Ritter, whose appeal, it
10295-528: The cities and towns in Texas as part of a McCullough circulation-building stunt, that there was even an attempt by Texas newspapers, called the “Texas Boycott,” in 1879 to keep the Globe-Democrat from being sold in Texas. McCullough hunted news, and when there was none he created it. One example was his publishing a public lecture on “What Catholics Believe” by the St. Louis Catholic bishop, followed by interviews with 32 other clergymen plus letters from
10440-465: The city limits contains Downtown and South Frankfort districts, which lie opposite one another on the river. A small neighborhood with its own distinct identity, Bellepoint, is located on the west bank of the river to the north of Benson Creek, opposite the river from the "downtown" district. The suburban areas on either side of the valley are respectively referred to as the "West Side" and "East Side" (or "West Frankfort" and "East Frankfort"). According to
10585-452: The city was 75.1% White or European American (74.1% non-Hispanic ), 13.3% Black or African American , 0.2% Native American , 2.6% Asian , 0.0% Pacific Islander , 1.8% from other races , and 4.8% from two or more races . Hispanics or Latinos of any race were 5.2% of the population. There were 12,434 households, out of which 27.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32,6% were married couples living together, 16.7% had
10730-635: The country's biggest markets. From January 1, 1956 to November 30, 1958 advertising had gained 2,703,505 lines while the Post-Dispatch had lost 1,547,288. It was still far from overtaking its rival, but it was beginning to challenge and the trend was in the right direction. But on February 21, 1959, catastrophe struck when the 332 employee members of the American Newspaper Guild walked out, although their contract did not end until December 31 of that year. The Globe-Democrat had to cease publication, and its 665 other employees were idled. The Guild wanted
10875-465: The decision go to Frankfort. Frankfort had a United States post office by 1794, with Daniel Weisiger as postmaster. On 1 October 1794, Weisiger sent the first quarterly account to Washington. John Brown , a Virginia lawyer and statesman, built a home now called Liberty Hall in Frankfort in 1796. Before Kentucky statehood, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress (1777−78) and
11020-798: The downtown neighborhoods including Downtown, South Frankfort, Bellepoint and Tanglewood. FIS operates The Early Learning Academy (a preschool ), Second Street School (primary and middle grades), Frankfort High School , and Panther Transition Academy (a non-traditional high school program). Franklin County Public Schools serves the rest of the city and county, including seven elementary schools (Bridgeport, Collins Lane, Early Learning Village, Elkhorn, Hearn, Peaks Mill, Westridge), two middle schools (Bondurant, Elkhorn), and two high schools ( Franklin County High School and Western Hills High School ). There are several private schools in
11165-439: The economic betterment of Missouri and the nation. The paper editorialized for eventual emancipation by colonization, suggesting that Missouri's colored people be shipped to Liberia and that slaveholders be fully compensated. By 1858 the Missouri Democrat had become the headquarters for the antislavery movement in Missouri led by Blair, who was then in Congress where he gave his famous colonization speech that proposed inquiring into
11310-547: The election anyway. Brown returned to his law practice, quit the Republican Party and resumed his ties to the Democrats. He died in Kirkwood, Missouri and is interred there at Oak Hill Cemetery. Frankfort, Kentucky Frankfort is the capital of the U.S. state of Kentucky and the seat of Franklin County . It is a home rule-class city . The population was 28,602 at the 2020 United States census . Located along
11455-492: The election, as Grant won 55.6% of the popular vote and a majority of the electoral vote . Greeley died after the election but before the electors officially cast their votes, and Brown received some of Greeley's electoral votes. After the election, Gratz returned to his law practice and affiliated with the Democratic Party. Brown was born in 1826 in Frankfort, Kentucky , the son of Judith Ann (Bledsoe) and Mason Brown . He
11600-436: The end, opposed his son-in-law because he thought that Fremont could command only a small vote and that running him would aggravate sectional feelings, and the editors seemed to agree. Meanwhile, there began ties between Abraham Lincoln and the Missouri Democrat stemming from the paper's Free-Soil days, when Blair and Lincoln had been in close agreement on the non-extension of slavery into territories. In 1857 Blair pledged that
11745-474: The heirs of S.I. Newhouse and the St. Louis Post Dispatch to close the Globe and enter into a 50-year profit-sharing arrangement was determined by the U.S. Justice Department to be an Antitrust Act collusion, and the government required the Globe-Democrat to seek new ownership rather than summarily close the paper. (There was no requirement for the Post-Dispatch to do any of the services it had been providing under
11890-470: The infancy of radio, Ray ordered equipment for a radio station, but the Post-Dispatch outmaneuvered him, acquired the equipment Ray had ordered, and opened KSD. Later the Globe-Democrat had owned 1/16th interest in KMOX, but Ray's belief that involvement with radio might compromise his newspaper prompted him to sell the paper's interest. On the other hand, Ray's son, E. Lansing Ray Jr., the assistant publisher,
12035-608: The journalistic world; even the New York Times used the news as one of its three main stories on the front page. Another legendary editor of the paper was Casper Yost , who became editor of the paper in 1889 and later was a founder of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Early 20th century to Lindbergh and the Depression, 1900-1929 By the dawn of the 20th century, as St. Louis's population exploded to 575,000, making it
12180-465: The local and statewide level, and, as he had said, to place great emphasis on constructive news, news analysis, and news treatment. To help make this philosophy an actuality, a new position was created – that of executive editor in charge of the news department – and Charles E. Pierson, who was managing editor at the Pittsburgh Press, was brought in as managing editor. Amberg and Pierson took up
12325-448: The magazine on June 20, denied many of Amberg's claims. But Amberg's statement that nobody ever won a strike that lasted as long as this one was painfully true: The Globe-Democrat lost an estimated $ 5,000,000 in revenue; the workers lost an estimated $ 600,000 in salaries; and there was an incalculable long-term loss in subscribers and advertisers. The Post-Dispatched benefited greatly. In March alone its advertising increased by
12470-433: The many problems inherent in such a large organization. Nor did he have a son to whom he could relinquish some of his many responsibilities. He said that he wanted to pick his successor—someone who would permit the Globe-Democrat to remain “complete master of its destiny, someone who would carry on the policies of his family.” The Newhouse years pre-joint operating agreement, 1955-1970 Two years later, in 1955, Ray found
12615-461: The nation's fourth-largest city, the Globe-Democrat had two serious competitors –the afternoon St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which Joseph Pulitzer had started in 1878 after buying the bankrupt St. Louis Dispatch at auction and merging it with the St. Louis Evening Post; and the morning Missouri Republic ( dating from 1808 as the Missouri Gazette and until 1888 as the St. Louis Republican), traditionally
12760-468: The new Liberal Republican Party . The party nominated Brown for governor, and he defeated Republican incumbent Joseph W. McClurg . Brown served as the Governor between 1871 and 1873. Brown was one of the contenders for the Liberal Republican presidential nomination, but lost to newspaper editor Horace Greeley . Brown was the vice presidential candidate under Greeley in the presidential election of 1872 for
12905-497: The new constitution and freedom of slaves. The paper had played a major role in placing the Radicals in power, and had become nationally recognized as a Republican stronghold. In the four years of the Civil War, the paper also had become the medium of information between Congress and the West. Post-Civil War period, 1865-1876 The Missouri Democrat continued its strong Republican stance in
13050-449: The new party's 1872 presidential nomination but was defeated by Horace Greeley . After the nomination of Greeley, the 1872 Liberal Republican convention chose Brown as the party's vice presidential nominee. Seeking to avoid splitting the vote of opponents to President Ulysses S. Grant 's re-election, the 1872 Democratic National Convention subsequently nominated the Liberal Republican ticket. The Republican ticket nonetheless triumphed in
13195-544: The newspaper failed to secure a necessary $ 15 million loan from the state of Missouri. An attorney had challenged the legality of the state's ability to grant that particular bond package, passed in the state legislature earlier that year. The newspaper was an important voice in keeping Missouri in the Union; was praised by President Abraham Lincoln (who read the paper before his presidency) as being worth 10 regiments of troops; may have brought about Andrew Johnson becoming Lincoln's vice-president (and thus, ultimately, president);
13340-553: The north side of the Kentucky River, which developed as downtown Frankfort. He was an early promoter of Frankfort as the state capital. Wilkinson felt Frankfort would be a center of transportation using the Kentucky River to ship farm produce to the Ohio River and then to the Mississippi and on to New Orleans. After Kentucky became the 15th state in 1792, five commissioners from various counties were appointed, on 20 June 1792, to choose
13485-511: The office tower was completed on Sunday, March 11, 2018, and was televised by WKYT-TV on WKYT-DT2 , as well as streamed live on Facebook . Demolition of the nearby convention center, which opened in 1972 and has hosted sporting events, concerts, and other local events, was completed in spring 2018. State officials replaced the outdated office tower with a smaller building called the Mayo–Underwood Building (2019), in order to create
13630-439: The only slave-state journal that supported Lincoln in both the 1860 and 1864 elections, and its editor at the time later attributed (with no substantiation) that Andrew Johnson's nomination in 1864 as vice president was due to his editorial. Indeed, the paper felt its promotion of Johnson in 1863 was what ultimately resulted in his succeeding to the presidency in 1865, and that Johnson showed no gratitude. The paper backed
13775-460: The other two co-owners, William McKee and Daniel M. Houser, because he was dissatisfied with the management of their journal. McKee and Houser refused to accept Fishback's offer to buy them out and McKee would not set a price on his own interest. Fishback obtained from Circuit Court an order for a sale, whereby an equitable transaction could adjust and close the partnership. An auction was held in March 1872 and Fishback prevailed, bidding $ 456,100, which
13920-481: The paper had lost half its circulation and was heavily in debt. On December 12, 1919 it closed, having been bought by the St. Louis Globe-Democrat in what was called an absorption and not a merger, ending one of the longest and most vituperative rivalries in the history of journalism. The Globe-Democrat became, and remained, the only morning newspaper in St. Louis. One reason it avoided possible new morning competition from Democrat-backed interests may have been that
14065-448: The paper started plans for a new building, visited big newspaper plants all across the country, and included the best features of them in the blueprints. Despite the financial crash of 1929, the company decided to proceed “to demonstrate its faith in the community.” Ground was broken for the structure, a state-of-the-art six-story building with two basements at 1133 Franklin Ave., in March 1930 and
14210-411: The paper was to be a fighter for the right. It would take sides on every issue; it would never run away from battle. “We will try,” he said, “to make a newspaper in the best interests of the community. We will be FOR St. Louis”. A good newspaper, Amberg believed, should emphasize “constructive news, news analysis, and news treatment.” He liked to point out that three of the great newspapers in
14355-537: The paper would “bloom for Republicanism” in 1860, and Lincoln shortly after the meeting drew up an agreement, signed by him and nine other Illinois Republicans, to furnish $ 500 for the promotion of the Missouri Democrat in Illinois. John Hay, who was then reading law in Lincoln's office and later served as U.S. secretary of state under two presidents, became a correspondent of the Missouri Democrat, and Lincoln himself
14500-425: The paper, Simeon Ray, the nephew of co-founder William McKee, was hired as a new advertising clerk, and in turn his son, E. Lansing Ray, was to become the owner until early 1955, and the publisher and editor until his death later in 1955, of what became the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, thus resulting in a 102-year lineage of ownership. In 1872, one of the co-owners of the paper, George W. Fishback, had been at odds with
14645-467: The plaza had fallen into disrepair, with sections of the plaza closed to pedestrian activity out of concerns for safety. Frankfort grew considerably with state government in the 1960s. A modern addition to the State Office Building was completed in 1967. The original building was completed in the 1930s on the location of the former Kentucky State Penitentiary. Some of the stone from the old prison
14790-431: The post-war and Reconstruction periods. It endorsed Ulysses S. Grant for president in 1868 and, although it warred openly against Grant's high tariffs and the corrupt practices in his government, it favored the renomination of Republican Grant for reelection in 1872. Grant's opponent was Horace Greeley of the short-lived Liberal Republican Party, created in 1870, and B. Gratz Brown, then Missouri governor and former editor of
14935-435: The public. The “Great Religious Controversy” that he created ran in the paper for more than three months. Thanks to Houser's “pay any price for news” policy, McCullough could use large amounts of telegraphed news and keep special correspondents in all parts of the country. By 1884 he could tell Globe-Democrat readers that his firm was paying “more money for the collection and transmission of telegraphic news from all parts of
15080-501: The publisher, E. Lansing Ray, assured readers after the sale that the Globe-Democrat would be “an independent Republican newspaper,” and soon even the word “Republican” was dropped from his announced policy. In 1922 the following declaration was placed on its editorial pages: “The Globe-Democrat is an independent newspaper, printing the news impartially, supporting what it believes to be right and opposing what it believes to be wrong, without regard to party politics.” After absorbing
15225-589: The purchase of a majority of the company's stock from over 50 heirs of the McKee Trust Fund, assuring that the paper could stay in his family – a heritage he could hand down to his son. It also allowed him to operate the paper without worrying about shareholder interference. Ray told his staff he did not want the paper “dictating or lecturing” on every controversial issue, but rather to present factual news accounts and interesting, valuable editorial comment that would allow readers to make up their own minds. He
15370-402: The purchase of land on which colored people who were already free might be colonized. He believed that all Negroes had the right to be free and that further immigration of free people from Africa should be prohibited. The paper endorsed Blair's proposal, of course, and applied it to Missouri. When Brown left the paper in 1859, he was succeeded as editor by the assistant editor, Peter L. Foy, who
15515-480: The reporting staff was reduced. For 80 years the Globe-Democrat had stressed foreign news, and the 1930s was no exception. But for the first time in many years, the foreign news was not reported by special correspondents. Almost all such news came from the Associated Press. In the 1940s, during the war years, the circulations of the morning Globe-Democrat and evening Post-Dispatch were about even, but after
15660-487: The south of the city. Capital City Airport , a public use airport, is one mile southwest of the central business district of Frankfort. The nearest airport with commercial flights is Blue Grass Airport , 22 miles southeast of Frankfort. Frankfort Union Station was a medium scale hub passenger train station for north-central Kentucky. It served the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway , the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad and
15805-477: The stock of KWK, Inc., by then both a radio and television operation; Newhouse assumed a $ 1,500,000 debt on the television station. After the sale of the paper, Ray's health continued to fail for the next five months, and on August 30, 1955, his 71st birthday, Ray died. For nearly half a century he had dominated the Globe-Democrat. Following his death, Newhouse brought in Richard H. Amberg to become publisher. At
15950-482: The successor owner he was seeking in Samuel I. Newhouse, who then owned 10 other newspapers in four states. His company, then called Newhouse Newspapers, later became Advance Publications and involve other types of media, and is still wholly family owned. Newhouse had a reputation of allowing local publishers and editors a very considerable autonomy. In March 1955, Ray sold the paper for $ 6,250,000, which included 23% of
16095-532: The system of interviewing public figures on timely questions, the incisive style of his editorials, his success as a gatherer of news -- was widely copied in the industry. He never married and made the newspaper his life. But, after a serious illness in 1893 and increasing other health issues and deaths of close friends, including the suicide of his closest friend, he wrote a long essay on “The Philosophy of Suicide.” On December 26, 1896 he committed suicide by jumping from his bedroom window. The news of his death stunned
16240-469: The task of rebuilding the Globe-Democrat into the forceful journalistic leader that the new publisher envisioned. When Amberg came to St. Louis the paper had eight right-wing conservative columnists. To give readers a more “complete spectrum of columnar opinion,” he dropped all but two of them, replacing them with more diverse voices. The editorial page once again began taking on controversial positions, often in advance of its competitor, no longer waiting for
16385-736: The time of his appointment he was publisher of the Syracuse Post-Standard, another Newhouse paper. A graduate of Harvard, he had previously served as general manager of Newsday; administrative assistant at the New York Herald-Tribune, and editor and publisher of the Blizzard in Oil City, Pa. His years of experience had given birth to a journalistic philosophy that was to revitalize the Globe- Democrat. The new publisher told his staff that
16530-399: The treasury); a series of news stories and articles that resulted in better airline service for St. Louis; a front-page editorial and rotogravure section that brought $ 102,000 in contributions for the world's first heart-lung machine for St. Louis Children's Hospital, saving babies’ lives; and a series showing how other cities solved problems in attracting new industries. Other projects included
16675-614: The two highest recorded floods occurring in 1937 and 1978. The North Frankfort levee, finished in 1969, and the South Frankfort floodwall, built in the 1990s, were constructed for flood protection. Five bridges cross the river in downtown Frankfort, including the St. Clair Street bridge and Capitol Avenue bridge. Notable locations include the Kentucky State Capitol building , the Capital City Museum, and Fort Hill ,
16820-553: The vacancy caused by the expulsion of Waldo P. Johnson . Brown opposed Abraham Lincoln 's moderation and objected to the Emancipation Proclamation because it did not free slaves in Missouri and other loyal border states. He was a key figure in the move to replace Lincoln with John C. Frémont in the presidential election of 1864 . In the Senate, Brown was chairman of the Public Buildings and Grounds committee and of
16965-456: The verdict was guilty. On April 16, 1876, McKee was sentenced to two years in jail and fined $ 10,000. But McKee served only six months of his sentence; President Grant pardoned him and remitted his fine. National recognition as the biggest and best in the West, 1877-1900 McKee's conviction did not dim the Globe-Democrat's future. Daily circulation by February, 1878, reached 26,792. Newspapers from Minnesota and Kentucky to Kansas praised it. It
17110-511: The walk-out started a dramatic development came: It was announced that the Post-Dispatch had bought the building and printing equipment of the Globe-Democrat and would print the Newhouse paper under contract after the strike was settled. Ownership of the two papers and direction of their news, editorial, advertising and circulation policies would remain separate. The Globe-Democrat would seek new office space and its Sunday edition would be converted into
17255-427: The war, in 1946, the Globe-Democrat outstripped its main rival by 17,126, with the “help” of the evening Star-Times climbing steadily to 192,155, presumably at the expense of the Post-Dispatch. But when the Post-Dispatch bought and absorbed its evening rival in 1951, leaving just two newspapers in St. Louis, Post-Dispatch circulation shot up to 400,218, while that of the Globe-Democrat reached only 304,623. Advertising
17400-457: The world” than was paid “by any other city of the world, New York and London not excepted. Day by day the Globe-Democrat became increasingly sensational as McCullough concentrated on disasters, crime, sex, violence, the odd, the religious, the different. He was widely considered one of the nation’s best editors and trained a number of noted journalists, of which Theodore Dreiser was one, and his style of writing and editing – developing
17545-482: The years after the Civil War resulted in increased and speedier news from far afield, and the paper also enlarged its local and state newsgathering personnel. Among hires was Henry Morton Stanley in 1867 to cover “Northwestern Missouri and Kansas and Nebraska.” Stanley would later be sent by the New York Herald on the famous expedition to Africa to find Dr. David Livingston. Of significance to later development of
17690-431: The younger Ray's death in 1946 of a cerebral hemorrhage, possibly a lingering effect of a head injury received during the war, and the death or retirement of some key assistants, Ray was the only descendant of the original owners left to direct the paper and the only longtime senior leader. By 1953, Ray, nearing 70, was in poor health and no longer able to give the paper the dynamic leadership it needed or to cope with
17835-427: Was $ 100 more than McKee's final bid. Within a few weeks of the sale, McKee and Houser began plans for establishing another paper, which would be the ninth St. Louis daily at the time. It started publication on July 18, 1872, as the St. Louis Globe, and was locked in a combination grudge match-death battle with the Missouri Democrat, despite its name the other Republican paper. Advertising in all
17980-416: Was 36.7 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 89.4 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 50,211, and the median income for a family was $ 43,949. Full-time male workers had a median income of $ 37,445 versus $ 34,613 for females. The per capita income was $ 29,288. About 19.8% of families and 16.3% of the population were below
18125-404: Was a careful reader of the paper, sometimes scribbling notes on the margin of a copy. He used the paper to further his antislavery ideas, particularly in southern Illinois where the Missouri Democrat was gaining readers. Lincoln was probably cultivating the paper because St. Louis was a much larger and more important city than Chicago and because his connection with a metropolitan newspaper in
18270-423: Was already well known in Missouri newspaper circles. Under Foy, by the time of the 1860 presidential election the paper – already having exercised great influence in its first eight years of existence—became known as the leading Republican paper of the West. It fought hard in 1861 to keep Missouri in the Union. Its crusade for Unionism brought two mob attacks to the doors of its office; such mobbing of newspapers
18415-491: Was also a serious problem for the Globe-Democrat in the 1940s. The encroachment of radio in the advertising field was one factor, as the two competitors operated radio stations (KSD for the Post-Dispatch and KXOX for the Star-Times) which mentioned their name every time the call letters of the stations were given, and there were opportunities for cross-advertising. The Globe-Democrat had itself dabbled in radio. About 1923, in
18560-460: Was always more than 50,000 behind. The other competitor, the Star-Times, which did not publish a Sunday issue, was a less serious contender for readership, as its daily circulation peaked at 158,907 in 1940. In advertising, the Globe-Democrat's income during the Depression did not rebound as it did at the other St. Louis papers. Production costs mounted in spite of attempts at retrenchments, and
18705-407: Was called the best, largest, and most reliable paper in the West, and was probably unsurpassed by any paper in the country for general news. By 1879 the paper could boast of more advertising on December 21 than did the ”New York Herald of that same date and 20 to 30 per cent more than any other daily newspaper in the United States of the same date,” it declared. . Soon after what was called by
18850-632: Was cheaper than purchase, and that the only danger was if Fishback sold his paper to someone with newspaper ability and experience. That thinking prevailed, and the competition continued until May 1875. Then, one or both of two possibilities brought McKee and Houser to change their minds about buying the Missouri Democrat: (1) they felt conditions were right to buy the Missouri Democrat before Fishback would be forced to sell his declining paper to some capable journalist; (2) Fishback gained knowledge of McKee's full involvement in graft in what became known as
18995-437: Was completed in November 1931. Depression Era to the end of the original ownership lineage, 1930-1955 The Depression took its toll on the Globe-Democrat, as was common to all newspapers in the 1930s. Sunday circulation dropped to 185,934, a loss of 72,065 from 1929; daily circulation dropped to 211,906 in 1935, a drop of 66,227 from 1929. Daily circulation was fairly even with that of the Post-Dispatch, but Sunday circulation
19140-597: Was feasible. Lindbergh had first approached the Post-Dispatch, but the editor there said, according to Lindbergh, "To fly across the Atlantic Ocean with one pilot and a single-engine plane! We have our reputation to consider. We couldn’t possibly be associated with such a venture." Lindbergh gave the Globe-Democrat exclusive publication rights in the St. Louis area, and the New York Times bought rights to its publication elsewhere. Ray's news and editorial changes helped to increase circulation. In 1927 he suspended publication of
19285-448: Was intensely interest in radio, particularly FM, and after he died in 1946 the father erected a lavish Globe-Democrat Tower Building at 12th and Cole streets as something of a memorial to his son, with radio station KWGD-FM going on the air in 1948. The station went off the air the next year, as FM was then not popular, and merged with KWK, which leased the building, and the Globe-Democrat was a substantial stockholder in that station. With
19430-455: Was killed in a skirmish with Native Americans ; the crossing was named " Frank's Ford " in his memory. In 1786, the Virginia legislature designated 100 acres as the town of Frankfort and, after Kentucky became a state in 1792, it was chosen as capital. The city is located in the inner Bluegrass region of Kentucky. The Kentucky River flows through the city, making a turn as it passes through
19575-471: Was not unusual in that era. President Lincoln said the paper was worth more to the North than 10 regiments of soldiers. Union regiments passing through St. Louis frequently stopped in front of the paper's office to give “three times three hurrahs.” Although Lincoln and the paper had a number of differences – sometimes of degree and sometimes quite substantive – the Missouri Democrat had the distinction of being
19720-478: Was reduced by the terms of that Joint Operating Agreement in 1959, which was expanded in 1969 and 1979. The papers shared all business and advertising functions, with only the news functions separate. Until the last fiscal year of its existence, the Post-Globe Agency, as the joint operation was known, operated in the red. The agency was said to be making a marginal profit that year. In 1983 an agreement between
19865-545: Was said, brought about the talks that resulted in eventual agreement. During this period Amberg negotiated a 10-year lease with the International Shoe Co. for the Terminal Railroad Building, located just a block and a half away from the old Globe-Democrat building. Tubes and a conveyor system would link it with the printing plant in the building the Post-Dispatch had bought. On June 1, 1959, after
20010-517: Was shortly overturned on December 13, 2018, by the Kentucky Supreme Court as unconstitutional, which prevented the bill from going into effect on January 1, 2019. Frankfort is located in the (inner) Bluegrass region of Central Kentucky. The city is bisected by the Kentucky River , which makes an s-turn as it passes through the center of town. The river valley widens at this point, which creates four distinct parts of town. The valley within
20155-458: Was supported on this by Casper S. Yost, the paper's editorial page editor since 1889, who was nationally respected and serving as the first president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, an organization he had recently founded that was devoted to improving the professional ethics of journalism. Ray and Yost, both somewhat idealistic, believed that newspapers were obligated to serve society; that journalists had great responsibilities to
20300-463: Was the St. Louis Globe-Democrat with the first issue featuring the new name on May 20. McKee was implicated in the Ring later in the year by an indicted distiller who turned state's evidence, and the November 1875 session of the Grand Jury indicted him for conspiracy to defraud the government. He was tried, and on the first ballot seven jurors voted for acquittal, but after 10 more hours of deliberation
20445-416: Was the fight for better airmail service and obtaining a modern airport. It was this interest in promoting aviation that rocketed the Globe-Democrat and its publisher into international prominence in 1927, when publisher Ray was one of the backers of aviation mail carrier Charles A. Lindbergh in his quest to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in a single-engine plane to prove that trans-oceanic air transportation
20590-511: Was the grandson of Senators John Brown and Jesse Bledsoe of Kentucky. He graduated from Transylvania University in Lexington in 1845 where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and from Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut , in 1847. He studied law, and later settled in St. Louis , Missouri . There he joined his cousin, Francis P. Blair Jr. , and Senator Thomas Hart Benton in
20735-572: Was the morning paper for Greater St. Louis and had some competition from the evening St. Louis Post-Dispatch (created by a merger of the St. Louis Post and the St. Louis Dispatch ) and the St. Louis Star-Times (created by a merger of The St. Louis Star and The St. Louis Times ). The Star-Times ceased operations in 1951. The Globe-Democrat and the rival Post-Dispatch carried on an intense rivalry for three more decades, with clear and substantial philosophical differences both in news coverage (where
20880-473: Was used for the walls surrounding the office building. Although there was some rapid economic and population growth in the 1960s, both tapered off in the 1980s and have remained fairly stable since that time. In August 2008, state government officials recommended demolition of the Capital Plaza Office Tower and redevelopment of the area over a period of years. Ten years later, the demolition of
21025-470: Was widely read throughout the Midwest and the Western frontier (Texas papers tried to keep it from being distributed in that state due to the competition); was responsible, through its editor, of creating the American Society of Newspaper Editors; employed writers such as John Jay, Henry Morton Stanley, Theodore Dreiser and Patrick Buchanan; was a major sponsor of Charles Lindbergh's historic transatlantic flight in
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