1895 References to the Farmerville "Herald", Union Parish Louisiana Submitted for the Union Parish Louisiana USGenWeb Archives by Louis Taunton, 6/2005 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ ================================================================================== ================================================================================== 1895 References to the Farmerville "Herald", Union Parish Louisiana ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the Louisville, Mississippi "Winston County Journal" Issue of 4 July 1895, Volumn III, No. 40. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== We have received the initial number of the Farmerville (La.) Herald, a neatly printed and well-edited P. P. journal by B. T. JOHNSON, late of our town. Mr. JOHNSON was reared in our county and is a highly respected clever young man, and will no doubt give his patrons a creditable, pleasing issue. Its politics is the only unredeemable feature about it that we can't stomach. We hate to see a good man continue so wrong. Get right politically Brother JOHNSON and she'll be a daisy. We dislike to see you wasting so much valuable time. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== From the Louisville, Mississippi "Winston County Journal" Issue of 16 August 1895, Volumn III, No. 46. ================================================================================== ================================================================================== We note from the Farmerville (La.) Herald, edited by B. T. JOHNSON, that it will commence the publication of the Union Farmer, an agricultural edition, on the 15th of September. Mr. JOHNSON is making a success of the Herald, and should he conduct the "Farmer" as ably as he does the Herald, which we do not doubt, it will be a valuable journal to the farmers of Union Parish. Success to it. ================================================================================== NOTE: It is clear from the above two notices that the editor of the "Winston County Journal", Mr. Hight, was as solidly Democratic as the Trimble Brothers who edited the Farmerville "Gazette". Mr. Johnson's "Herald" was a Populist Party (also called the "People's Party") paper. The Populist movement of the 1890s swept quickly across the South and rural areas of the west and mid-west. Although they ran strong nationally and across the South in the 1890s, by around 1900 many of their ideals had been adopted by the Democrats, so their popularity faded. ###############################################################################