KANSAS KRITIC, Concordia, Oct. 17, 1888  

* From the 19th century Frontier

In the masthead is; "An Advocate of the People; Defending Their Rights and Denouncing Their Wrongs".
Gregory's "Union List of Newspapers" notes that only two institutions have any holdings of this title, one of which has just a single issue.
Four pages, nice condition.

Background: This exceptionally rare four-page issue of the Kansas Kritic, published in Concordia on October 17, 1888, serves as a vital historical artifact from the height of the late 19th-century American agrarian revolt. Printed just weeks before the pivotal 1888 presidential election, the newspaper operated under the fiercely populist masthead, "An Advocate of the People; Defending Their Rights and Denouncing Their Wrongs," and functioned as an ideological megaphone for the short-lived Union Labor Party. This third-party movement united struggling farmers and urban labor unions against corporate monopolies, demanding radical reforms like a federal income tax and government regulation of railroads. The publication's historical significance is matched entirely by its extreme scarcity; Winifred Gregory's definitive Union List of Newspapers traces its survival to just two institutional holdings nationwide—one consisting of a lone, solitary issue. Because fragile, turn-of-the-century newsprint from fringe political movements was rarely preserved, finding this specific pre-election edition intact and in nice condition offers an incredibly rare, unvarnished window into the grassroots radicalism that fundamentally reshaped Kansas and Midwestern politics.