Canadian printer & publisher . ullyunionized and journeymenized Preston secured a case inIndianapolis, and afterward in Toledo, moving from there tothe Springfield Republican. All the time he was keenly in-terested in the editorial policy and the news columns of anyand all of the papers on which he worked, and his term on theSpringfield Re publican, then under Sam Bowles, in the days of thegreat Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, gave him a goodcpp^rtunity to become conversant with that phase of American history connected with HoraceGreeleys Mugwumps. Theyear 1874 found him on themake-up o
Canadian printer & publisher . ullyunionized and journeymenized Preston secured a case inIndianapolis, and afterward in Toledo, moving from there tothe Springfield Republican. All the time he was keenly in-terested in the editorial policy and the news columns of anyand all of the papers on which he worked, and his term on theSpringfield Re publican, then under Sam Bowles, in the days of thegreat Massachusetts Senator, Charles Sumner, gave him a goodcpp^rtunity to become conversant with that phase of American history connected with HoraceGreeleys Mugwumps. Theyear 1874 found him on themake-up of the Worcester a chance came tomake the break from the com-posing stick to the pen. Wil-liam Buckingham was appoint-ed confidential secretary toAlexander Mackenzie atOttawa,and from him helearnedof achancetogoonthe reportorial side cf theOttawa Free Press, thenpublished by C. W. Mit-chell. Ottawa had twoother papers then, theMorning Times and theCitizen, a morning paper,published by C. H. Mack-intosh, who afterward. 22 ilMNTER AND PUBLISHER became Lieutenant-Governor of the Northwest Territories. Mr. Burgoyne of the St. Catharines Siandard, writing in hispaper a few days ago on the thirty years of the Expositor underMr. Preston, recalls the days in Ottawa, saying, In offeringheartiest greetings to the Brantford Expositor. . it is toan old friend with whom the editor of the Standard began anacquaintanceship now nearly 45 years old, when both, togetherwith Mr. John H. Thompson, of the Thorold Post, were em-ployed on the Ottawa Free Press, Mr. Preston as a reporter andthe other two as compositors. It was on March 28, 1875, thatthe two young typos set out from St. Catharines for the Capital,to take cases on the Free Press under the late C. W. Mitchell,but Mr. Preston was already on the paper. These three withanother comp. on the Free Press, Mr. R. Uglow, now con-ducting a prosperous book and stationery emporium in King-ston, all boarded at the same house on Salter Stree
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