This is one of only a handful of African-American newspapers published in Utah. Its publisher, Julius Taylor, was a liberal and a Democrat who supported the Free Silver wing of the party and tried to convert African-Americans from the Republican Party. In 1901, he closed the Broad Ax in Salt Lake City and moved the paper to Chicago, where it continued into the 1920's Need HELP on using this page?
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