The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, July 1932 - April, 1933 Page: 135
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Joseph Baker
issues of that paper through July 18, of the same year. "The
Telegraph and Texas Planter," the prospectus announced, "will be
published for the diffusion of political and useful knowledge" at
San Felipe de Austin, chosen as the most central location both
from the standpoint of obtaining communications as well as from
that of disseminating news. "The Telegraph will be the tool of no
party and will fearlessly expose crime. It will be ready to advocate
such principles and measures as have a tendency to promote union
between Texas and the Mexican Confederation, as well as to oppose
everything tending to dissolve or weaken the connexion between
them." The explanation for these changes from the original plan
of the paper appeared in the first issue of the Telegraph and Texas
Register as follows:
Our readers will see that, in the title of this paper we substituted
the word "Register," in place of "Planter," changing its name from
what was originally proposed. At the time our prospectus was
published, the engrossing object was the accumulating of wealth,
and consequent aggrandizement of the country. Since that time
affairs have assumed an entirely different aspect, and the all-
absorbing question is how to protect ourselves, and what we already
possess. We shall therefore endeavour to make our paper what its
title indicates, the organ by which the most important news is com-
municated to the people, and a faithful register of passing events.20
It is through his connection with this paper that Joseph Baker
has been best known in Texas, and rightly so, since the strong and
stirring editorials are indicative of his character and attainments
as well as of those of his partners. "These members of the Texas
Press were all gentlemen of education and ability. . .. There
was not a sorry man among them," writes Judge A. B. Norton in
his History of the Early Newspapers in Texas.21 The following
excerpt from one of these editorials will serve to point out the spirit
of their eloquence:
In the present excited state of the public mind, it is necessary
that every item of information which can throw the least ray of
light upon the subject of our present difficulties, should be placed
before the public. Unfortunately for Texas, the real cause of these
difficulties has not been understood; and until lately it was not
"Telegraph and Texas Register, October 10, 1835.
"Roy, Addie May, History of the Telegraph and Texas Register (M. A.
Thesis, 1931), 13.135
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, July 1932 - April, 1933, periodical, 1933; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101093/m1/149/: accessed May 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.