Colored Press Association.

Colored Press Association.

A report on the 1887 National Colored Press Association held in Louisville, Kentucky published in the Atchison Daily Champion (August 10, 1887)

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Atchison Daily Champion

1887-08-10

Newspaper article

The Colored Press Association. Louisville, August 9. - The National Colored Press Association met here today. The most prominent member in attendance is Prof. Murray, editor and proprietor of the St. Louis Advance. Prof. Murray was formerly a resident of Kentucky, and published the first colored newspaper ever issued in this State, the Colored Kentuckian, in 1867. In conversation with a reporter he said: "As between the two candidates for the Presidential nomination on the Republican ticket I think the majority of the colored race prefer Sherman." Prof. Murray said Blaine's opposition to the force bill giving the federal authorities power to protect the colored men in the South had injured him among the colored race in the South. Personally he was in doubt as to whether he would vote for Cleveland or not in case Blaine was nominated in 1888. Prof. Murray thought that the colored man should act independently in politics, and declared that the idea of Blaine and Ingalls, that a colored man cannot be a Democrat without being a monsfronsity is being strongly condemned by the progressive men of the race.

Louisville

KY

USA

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