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August 2008 Colorado Editor

Denver Public Library/Western History & Genealogy Front pages from the July 5 Denver Post and July 9 Rocky Mountain News display coverage of the 1908 Democratic National Convention
at the Denver Auditorium in downtown Denver. The 2008 DNC will be Aug. 25-28 at Pepsi Center in Denver.


DNC was major media event in 1908 by John Steinle

A Golden Age of print journalism reigned as 30,000 Democrats gathered in Denver for their 1908 National Convention.
Denver— a city of about 213,000 — supported five major daily newspapers, plus dozens of ethnic, neighborhood,
religious and literary periodicals. The rivalry among the Denver newspapers was intense. Just the year before the Democratic Convention, Denver Post co-owner Fred Bonfils viciously assaulted elderly Rocky Mountain News and Denver Times owner Tom Patterson in broad daylight. Bonfils and his co-owner Harry Tammen were shot by an irate attorney in 1900 during a dispute over the prison parole of “Colorado Cannibal” Alfred Packer. Denver journalism in the early 1900s was no job for the faint of heart! See 1908 on page 6.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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