Newspapers made endorsements of candidates in the 1900 United States presidential election. Incumbent President William McKinley was the Republican candidate, and William Jennings Bryan the Democratic candidate, a rematch of the 1896 election.

Newspaper 1900 Endorsement Largest Reported Circ. Endorsement
date		 State 1896 Endorsement Notes
New York Herald[1] William McKinley 75,000+[2] 1900 New York (blanks = to be filled in)
New York World[1] William McKinley 75,000+[2] 1900 New York
New York Evening Post[1] William McKinley 23,244[2] 1900 New York
Brooklyn Eagle[1] William McKinley 20,000+[2] 1900 New York
The New York Times[3][4] William McKinley 20,000+[2] November 4, 1900 New York William McKinley
Chicago Tribune[5] William McKinley 75,000+[2] 1900 Illinois William McKinley
Country Topics[6] William McKinley 89,000+[2] 1900 Parts Unknown William McKinley
Baltimore Sun[7] William Jennings Bryan 20,000+[2] 1900 Maryland William McKinley
The Arizona Republican[8] William McKinley 4,129[2] 1900 Arizona Territory William McKinley
Canton Repository[9] William McKinley 6,563[2] 1900 Ohio William McKinley[9]
New Yorker Staats-Zeitung[10] William McKinley 20,000+[2] 1900 New York Prominent German-language paper.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette[11] William Jennings Bryan 1,000+[2] 1900 Indiana

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Sheppard, Si. The Partisan Press: A History of Media Bias in the United States, p. 213 (2008) ("the Times, Herald, World, Evening Post, and Brooklyn Eagle, all backers of McKinley four years prior....")
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Rowell's 1900 directory, pp. 1191-1319 (papers over 1,000 daily circulation)
  3. ↑ (4 November 1900). The Choice, The New York Times
  4. ↑ New York Times Endorsements Through the Ages: A collection of The Times's endorsements for the presidency, from Abraham Lincoln in 1860 through the editorial board’s choice of Hillary Clinton in 2016., New York Times (September 23, 2016).
  5. ↑ Chicago Tribune Endorses Obama, The Moderate Voice (2008)
  6. ↑ , The Moderate Voice (2008)
  7. ↑ 1900: William Jennings Bryan, Baltimore Sun
  8. ↑ (7 Sept 2016). Arizona Republic presidential endorsements: 120 years, no Democrats, Arizona Republic
  9. 1 2 (11 Oct. 2016). A Paper Picks: Past Repository presidential endorsements followed an historical pattern, Canton Repository
  10. ↑ “Declined with Thanks” , Harpers
  11. ↑ Hard News, Heartfelt Opinions: A History of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, p. 72 (2007)
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