Let's Stop This Nonpartisanship

In its issue of January 24, 1919, the Hobart Gazette proclaimed that it would henceforward consider itself on the side of the Democratic party.

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I don't know if "Independent" in this case meant sympathy with an independent party (was there an independent party consistently present during those years?), or sympathy with no particular party. I can't say I've perceived any political bias in the Gazette at all over the years.

What "Democratic" meant remains to be seen.

(Note that the "Stray Thoughts" under that article include a continuation of the Gazette's fight with the News over how Hobart ought to supply its citizens with electricity.)