Sounds like the papers of the 1850’s
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/jesse.shapiro/research/PoliticalInfluence.pdf
Do Newspapers Serve the State? Incumbent Party Influence on the US Press, 1869-1928
Historians have documented a number of channels by which incumbent parties used the machinery of the state to benefit sympathetic newspapers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The most important were contracts to print government documents (records of legislative proceedings, official forms, notices, laws, and so forth); these contracts were often allocated at inflated prices to papers affiliated with the party in power (Baldasty 1992, 21; Abbott 2004, 45; Summers 1994, 48, 54, 60, 210-214).
In a detailed study of Wisconsin newspapers from 1849-1860, Dyer (1989) shows that such contracts from the state government accounted for roughly half of the revenue of large party newspapers in the state capital, and ten to twenty percent of the revenue of smaller English-language papers near the frontier (29-31). Abbott (2004) similarly finds that printing patronage was the “most important” revenue source for many papers throughout the South (45).