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 The Chronicle welcomes you online! Please feel free to respond to these editorials or letters to the editor by sending your letters to the editor.

We condense letters; most, as published, won't exceed 300 words. A letter must include the writer's name and city, which will be published, and an address and telephone number for verification, which will not be published. Writers may be limited to one letter every 30 days. Open letters, letters to third parties and poetry are not considered. Letters from people living outside the Chronicle's circulation area usually are not considered.

William Morris

William Morris

Web posted January 1, 2000

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From his boyhood days as an Augusta Herald carrier to his college years at the University of Georgia, Bill Morris had newspapering and crusading in his blood. The year was 1945 when he acquired The Chronicle, where he had been working in managerial positions since 1931. (He bought the old Herald in 1955.)

Under his leadership the paper was courageous in exposing, and editorializing against the corrupt hold the Cracker Party had on Augusta. In 1946, he leaped into politics and, in a hard-fought campaign, was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives by beating the biggest Cracker of them all, Roy V. Harris. Downtown revitalization was pushed, Crackers were routed and Dwight Eisenhower was endorsed for president -- a political jolt felt all across the Democrat ``Solid South.''