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It was The Times which bitterly denounced the Republican Re- turning Board which gave the election to Hayes. The Daily States, established January 3, 1880, used as its motive power to turn its press an "old and blind but willing and muscular darky." In Boston The Journal, founded February 5, 1833, grew so prosperous from the start given it during the Civil War by the correspondence of Charles Charleton Coffin that The Globe was established in that city on March 4, 1872, with an evening edition on March 7, 1878. At Chicago The Republican appeared on May 30, 1865; The Evening Post on September 4, 1865; The Evening Mail, on October 18, 1870; The Interocean on March 25, 1872; The Daily News, on December 26, 1875. In Philadel- phia The Record was launched on June 1, 1877, as a one-cent newspaper, the first after the Civil War; it was the outgrowth of The Public Record, a paper founded on May 10, 1870, which had no influence and was a losing venture until William M. Singerly bought its Associated Press franchise for his new paper, that was most successful from the beginning. The Evening Bulletin, which had been founded in 1847 by Alexander Cum- mings under the title Cummings's Evening Telegraphic Bulletin, was in 1865 sold at auction for eighty-nine thousand dollars and passed through various hands until it finally, after its circulation had dwindled to less than five thousand, became the property of William L. McLean. The Press, founded in August, 1857, by John W. Forney and one of the most influential newspapers during the Civil War Period, passed into the control of Calvin Wells in 1879. The Pennsylvania Inquirer changed its name to The Philadelphia Inquirer and became one of the most influen- tial Republican newspapers of the State. The first number of The News appeared in Indianapolis on December 7, 1869; a few subsequent issues were called The Evening News, but after a few months it became The Indianapolis News, under which title it is still published. In Washington, D. C., The Evening Star, which had been founded December 16, 1852, became after the war a newspaper whose growth has been contemporaneous with the development of Washington. After the war, John W. Forney devoted most of his time to The Press of Philadelphia and al- lowed his Washington organ, The Chronicle, to die. The latter's