 Its first editor was former "Dagsposten" editor Håkon Løken, and with its Liberal Party affiliation "Nidaros" became the largest newspaper in Trondheim, with a circulation of 20–30,000.Among the political disputes of the time were electrification of the city's tramway system, establishment of a technical institution in Trondheim, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and the eventual Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.Løken left in 1909.