successor of the old Occidental Messenger and the Democratic Crisis, when it was suppressed in 1863 for the same sort of thing. Publication was resumed during the summer.
The Inquirer appears to have kept its name after the suppression. Haley & Stinson are at the helm of Volume 1, No. 10 (September 27, 1862), a copy of which is in the files of the Oregon Historical Society.
The name Inquirer was soon dropped, however, and Haley & Stinson were back in the field with the Oregon Democrat, of which volume 1, number 2, is on file in the Historical Society, under date of June 20, 1863.
Finally the Democrat and the Inquirer had disappeared from the scene, with their various woes and suppressions, and were succeeded in 1865 by something brand-new, the State Rights Democrat. This is the paper which is regarded by the publishers of the present Democrat-Herald as the actual ancestor of their paper. The confused history of the older papers is not claimed as any part of their own family tree, which begins with the first issue of the State Rights Democrat August 1, 1865. James O'Meara was back as editor, remaining one year.
In July, 1866, the paper was taken over by M. H. Abbott, Mart V. Brown, and John Travers. Travers retired from the firm in the following December.
Meanwhile the Albany Journal, a weekly catering to the Republican sentiment in Oregon, had been established March 12, 1863, by the Albany Publishing Company, of which T. Monteith, J. H. Foster, A. Hanson, H. M. Brown, and H. N. George were directors. William McPherson was editor in 1866, when, having been elected state printer, he moved to Salem. The paper was allowed to die. It was revived in 1867 by Pickett & Co. but died in the following March, when the company went bankrupt.
The Register, Republican in politics, was established in Albany by Coll Van Cleve, editor and publisher, with the plant of the defunct Journal, in September of the same year (1868). This paper continued under the same management for many years, ran as a daily in 1875, and was still on the scene when, in 1879, Will G. Steel started the Albany Herald.
It disappeared when Van Cleve went to Yaquina to run the Post in the middle 80's, attracted by railroad development at Yaquina bay.
In May 1869 Abbott of the State Rights Democrat went to Baker and established the Bedrock Democrat. His partner in the Baker venture was L. L. McArthur, a recent arrival from Virginia, who had been a colonel in the Confederate army.
C. B. Bellinger, a lawyer residing at Monroe, whose relatively brief excursion into journalism was far overshadowed by a long and distinguished career as lawyer, compiler of codes, professor of law,
