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WILLIAM E "BILLY" BOLTON
Bolton offered no apologies for the first issue of his new paper, but explained, "To
the uninitiated, tearing down, moving two hundred miles, setting up and getting
out an issue the same week in a strange town, with but little knowledge of its sur-
rounding and all the necesary [sic] work involved in handling not less than 64,000
tiny pieces of metal each of which must be in its own proper place, to say nothing of
the numberless small inconveniences one is subjected to in getting ready for the
press and this too in face of the fact that workmen were still busy with the building,
this and more we say may seem a small matter to those who have never experienced
it-but we know ever so much better! [W]e do expect to make it better every issue
during the next ten years (Taken from The Woodward News, June 1, 1894).
July, due to the poor health of editor, C.M. Hall."10 The Cross
Resident took note of the Woodward editor's acquisitions by com-
menting, "Will E. Bolton, . . is spreading out over the territory
required by his size. Last week he added the Advocate to the scalps
at his 52 inch belt.""
In matters of political involvement, Bolton asserted, "The News
Will be Independent in every sense of the word."'2 In early Septem-
ber, 1894, candidates of the three political parties-People's,
Republican, and Democratic-began lining up for the upcoming
November elections. Bolton simply headlined an article, "HERE
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