From The Gazette, Sept. 13, 1900: “The Vinton Eagle cannot get over the thought that ‘The Gazette is anti-Republican.’ The Gazette pleads guilty to being very anti-some Republicans and it is at times equally anti-some Democrats. Because a candidate wears the badge of his party is no sign that he is the proper sort of man, and where the worst elements are constantly seeking to gain control there is no particular wonder that they should occasionally succeed. The Eagle will be allowed to have its own way and when it has the desire to endorse a man for the reason that he has been nominated The Gazette will resent any attempt from any source to interfere with its prerogative. A man has an inalienable right to swallow whatever he sees fit.”
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2008 — John McCain (R)
2004 — George W. Bush (R)
2000 — George W. Bush (R)
1996 — Bob Dole (R)
1992 — Ross Perot (I)
1988 — George H.W. Bush (R)
1984 — Ronald Reagan (R)
1980 — Ronald Reagan (R)
1976 — Gerald Ford (R)
1972 — Richard Nixon (R)
1968 — Richard Nixon (R)
1964 — Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
1960 — Richard Nixon (R)
1956 — Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
1952 — Dwight D. Eisenhower (R)
1948 — Thomas E. Dewey (R)
1944 — Thomas E. Dewey (R)
1940 — Wendell Wilkie (R)
1936 — Alf Landon (R)
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1928 — Herbert Hoover (R)
1924 — Calvin Coolidge (R)
1920 — Warren G. Harding (R)
1916, 1912 — Woodrow Wilson (D) (no definitive endorsement in either year, but editorial comment was kinder to Wilson than to his opponents)
1908 — Theodore Roosevelt (R)
1904 — Theodore Roosevelt (R)
1900 — William McKinley (R)
1896 — William McKinley (R)
1892 — Benjamin Harrison (R)
1888 — Benjamin Harrison (R)
1884 — James Blaine (R)
1883 — (The Gazette founded)