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During Texas's decade as a republic, its newspapers never galvanized into a truly partisan press. The newspapers of Texas were political, but rather than focusing on party principles, they opposed or supported political candidates during the republic's four presidential elections, with two-term President Sam Houston as the pivotal figure. The independence of most newspapers from party patronage and influence and their patriotic elevation of the good of the country over loyalty to any faction demonstrated that editors did not fully adopt the American style of press partisanship they experienced before moving to Texas. Elections in the republic revolved around personalities instead of policies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Remembering and capitalizing on San Antonio's Spanish colonial empire became a pastime and a policy of the Alamo city and its dominant English-language newspaper during the Great Depression. While Spanish nostalgia had antecedents in the late nineteenth century's conservation sensibilities, it reached an apogee in San Antonio during the years 1929 through 1934. This period coincided with the deepest recessionary period of the Depression decade, a time when anti-immigrant sentiment and anti-Mexican sentiment flourished. This article comparatively examines the way English- and Spanish-language daily newspaper coverage constructed the reality of San Antonio's Spanish-speaking founders at a time when their descendants, Mexicans and Mexican Americans, were often reviled and subject to repatriation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]