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Show ; THE JOURNALISTS OF COLOR. I ' Tiny Want One of the Circuit .luageahipa ) form Mun of Their liac. I Cincinnati, March 10. Tho national I convention of colored editors, having f; elected officers, adjourned until next I year in Philadelphia. A commit me was appointed to visit President liar-: liar-: rison and urge him to appoint colored ; weu on the Columbian exposition commission; com-mission; also to urge the claims of a colored man for one of the judges of - the nine judicial districts recently ere-' ere-' Hted. I. A committee was appointed to organ ize a plan for a colored press assoeia- r lion, for the dissemination of news. The committee on ways ana plans re- : ported against any idea of expatriation, but favors emigration from tho o'er- ; crowded district of the south to the western and southwestern states, lie-grel lie-grel is expressed at tiie failure of congress con-gress to pass the Biair educational bill and the elections bill. The "Jim Crow" cars on sbiithern ro wis and all plans of discrimination at places of public re-fort re-fort and amusement were denounced as outrageous. The penal system of tho south is severely criticised and tho ballot laws of Florida. South Carolina, Tennessee and Mississippi condemned. |