The Wilson Tariff Bill, which is highly opposed by Northern manufacturers, passes the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, but seems to be dead on arrival in the Senate.
When James. R. Sherman is given the Republican nomination for vice president, the people of Utica, N.Y. host elaborate ceremonies and parades, exclaiming that “the affair is a grand holiday in honor of Mr. Sherman.”
In West Virginia, railway conductors are implementing Virginia’s “separate car law” forcing black people into coaches made “exclusively for the accommodation of colored people.”
John Mitchell Jr. assures concerning the actions of the Constitutional Convention of Virginia “we have never seen the need of any particular uneasiness on the part of our people relative to the cutting off our right to vote. That right is already…
The Planet critiques a court case, where a white politician broke the promise of marriage to a white woman, charging that whites always claim moral high ground even though they commit murder and adultery like everyone else.
Mitchell commends President McKinley for his visit to a black church in Chicago, and calls it an appreciated “official acknowledgement of the worth of the colored race.”