Negroes in Convention

Negroes in Convention

newspaper article

Morning Oregonian

19th Century U.S. Newspapers

1893-11-29

Negroes in Convention. --- The Bishop Urges Organization for the Removal of the Taint of Crime. Cincinnati, Nov. 28. - The national colored convention was called to order today by Bishop Turner, of Atlanta, over 500 delegates being in attendance. After permanent organization, Bishop Turner was elected president. C.H.J. H. J. Taylor, recently appointed minister to Bolivia, made an address against mob law, urging a death penalty for rapists, and to compel the county in which a man is lynched to pay his heirs $ 10,000. Tonight Bishop Turner delivered an address for urging the colored men to organize for the removal of the taint of crime upon their race. He recommends partial African emigration, and calling upon the nation for part of $ 40,000,000 which it owes the colored race for daily labor. ----- Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 28. 28.-The general assembly of the Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa assembled here this afternoon. It will remain in session for two days for the transaction of routine business.

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