Los Angeles Daily Herald

NEGRO POLITICIANS:
Colored Democrats.

Capital Independent Convention.

Attend the conference of colored men called by J. Milton Turner and others.

The circular sent out by Turner recites the magnitude of the coming struggle between the great political parties and suggests that it 'would be wisdom on the part of the great body of negro-American voters to be an independent and unknown quantity in the present contest.' The circular concludes by stating that the conference is called 'for the purpose of consulting and considering upon what recommendations may be decided upon as best to promulgate the interests of the colored electors of the country. Let it be distinctly understood that the proposed conference is not called in the interest of any particular party or individual, but purely of the negro.'

The language of the call, which distinctly foreordained that the conference was to be of a politically independent character, was openly repudiated to-night by a large majority of the delegates present, who declare that they are here as Negro Democrats and not as Independents, and at a meeting of the Preliminary Organization Committee to-night Turner and his supporters were denounced by the straight-out Democrats and outvoted on all the questions of organization. Charles H. J. Taylor, of Kansas City, ex-Minister to Liberia and editor of Public Education, a Democratic journal, led the Democratic wing at the Committee meeting, seconded by Gordon Street, an attache of the Boston Herald. They were opposed by Turner and George W. Fisher, of Virginia, who represented the independent wing.

The meeting finally broke up in a row. Street made personal charges against Turner, when the latter picked up a chair and attempted to assault Street, but was prevented. The Democratic faction carried the day and declared they will organize to-morrow as a Democratic Negro Conference and exclude Turner and his followers from all participation.