The Union Army believed that the Baptist, along with a number of other religious papers, had exerted a radicalizing influence by combining religious, millennialist language with denunciations of Northern tyranny.
Samuel Henderson and H. E. Taliaferro, were promised their production plant would be spared if no religious paper were to be published in Tuskegee.
Hare was an established attorney[9] and political figure in Macon County when he became editor of the News in 1895.
[10] In 1913, he became the president of the Screws Monument Association after publishing a suggestion that Alabama editors should honor the late William Wallace Screws,[11] a confederate soldier, Secretary of State for Alabama, and editor for the Montgomery Advertiser.
[12] Over 100 years after its establishment, J. J. Johnson became the first black editor of the Tuskegee News.