[dredmorbius]

Very much so. I was going to mention that but figured I'd rambled on enough already.

You might enjoy a piece I wrote about a year ago on J.P. Morgan and the purported "Banker's Manifesto" of 1892. (It proves to be a hoax.) The investigation took me through quite a few old newspaper archives, many of them political organs.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/39w8u4/jp_morg...

The Arizona Republic, commenting on its own endorsement of Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, the first presidental endorsement for that party in the paper's 150+ year history, noted that it was originally known as the Arizona RepublicAN.