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H. McCord. Webb exercised an option to invest $7,555 into the paper, and after McCord left Phoenix to go to Washington D.C., Webb called meetings of the board of directors of the paper and ousted McCord as managing editor, much like McCord had ousted him three years earlier. The paper, which had been slanted towards Democrats, had shifted to slant to the Republicans under McCord. With a return to Webb, a staunch Democrat, it was expected that the paper would return to a Democrat's slant. After several contentious months, Webb lost control

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