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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS AND ASSOCIATED ENTERPRISES
While hundreds of early Texas newspa-
pers were springing up and dying, The
Galveston News fought its way through
upon its sheer merit as a well-balanced,
well-written and well-edited newspaper.
When Galveston was captured by
United States forces in 1862, Richardson
took his paper to Houston. There he suf-
fered the misfortune of the burning of
The News' temporary home. He moved
The News back to Galveston shortly after
the war and fought valiantly for Texas
rights throughout the dark era of Recon-
struction. The last of Richardson's many
forthright editorial campaigns was (con-
duteled just before his death in 1875, di-
rected at "the redemption of Texas from
the thief and the scalawag.'"
A. H. Belo, who had served as a colonel
in the Confederate Army, joined the trek
of many others from his home state of
North Carolina short ly after the \Var Be-
tween the States. Casting about in the
new land of hope, he formed a connection
with Richardson in 1865, just before the
paper was moved back to Galveston.
The Dallas News Established.
Richardson's great contribution to the
continuing record of the institution was
his genius in keeping it alive during its
early years. Colonel Belo, who had come
to Texas looking for greater opportunity,
quite logically looked beyond the bound-
aries of Galveston Island and the Texas
coast country. He visualized the coming
growth in population and economic ex-
pansion of the greal interior area of
North Texas. As the result of his vision,
primarily, The Dallas Morning News was
established by The Galveston News, be-
ginning Oct. 1. 1885.
Preparatory to establishing in North
Texas a branch of The Galveston News,Colonel Belo sent young George Banner-
man Dealey to make a survey, and decide
which city would be the home of the new
publication. Young Dealey, the third of
the three guiding personalities mentioned
above, had joined The Galveston News in
1874 as office boy for Richardson and
Belo. He was the son of George Dealey,
an immigrant from England, and had
landed at Galveston with the remainder
of his family at the age of eleven.
His capability soon attracted the atten-
tion of Richardson and Belo and brought
about his early advancement, leading to
his assignment to the North Texas survey
at the age of twenty-six. With the estab-
lishment of The Dallas Morning News,
young Dealey became its business man-
ager.
The Dallas Morning News grew rapidly
and by 1894, when G. B. Dealey was made
its general manager, it had come to rival
the mother publication at Galveston. A.
H. Belo Sr. died in 1901, and was suc-
ceeded by his son, A. H. Belo Jr., who in
turn, died in 1906, at which lime G. B.
Dealey became vice-president and general
manager, and succeeded to the presidency
on the death of C. Lombardi in 1919. Ac-
tually, he had been the guiding force in
The News throughout the period follow-
ing Colonel Belo'L, death. For twenty-one
years, 1919-1910, he served as president
and then became chairman of the board,
turning the presidency over to his son,
E. M. (Ted) Dealey. On his death in 1946,
he was succeeded as chairman of the
board by his widow, Mrs. G. B. Dealey.
By the beginning of the present cen-
tury, The Dallas News had outgrown its
parent publication and continued to in-
crease its predominance throughout the
years. In 1923, The Galveston News was
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