Show NEGRO DEMOCRATS A Very Harmonious Catherine Held In Washington WASHINGTON Aug 21The first general gen-eral conference of negro Democrats was held in this city today and was characterized charac-terized by great harmony About fifty delegates were present The object of the conference being to take steps toward attending a negro Democratic league by organizing subordinate state leagues C H J Taylor Tay-lor of Kansas presided and apportionments apportion-ments were made for various states Among other matters the conference discussed dis-cussed the silver question James ABoss of Iowa spoke for free siver Resolutions Resolu-tions were adopted expressing confidence con-fidence that President Cleveland will properly treat the claims of colored citizens citi-zens to office and urging their people to make friends with the best people of the communities where they live and hoping they vagaries would not be led off by wild Populist |