Newspapers provide a way to learn from the past and have been a tremendous resource for researchers like Rachel Quist of Salt Lake City.
Unfortunately, pictures of Julius F. Taylor have not been found. However, some of his newspapers have been preserved and digitized on various platforms,In the first edition Taylor wrote, “With this edition we present to the good people of Utah, the initial number of the Broad Ax.” He said it would be "Democratic in politics advocating the immortal principles of Jefferson and Jackson.
For readers of today, it may come across strange that Taylor would support Democrats during that time. “He felt that the Republican party, the party of Lincoln, had betrayed the Black people in terms of their promises. And so, he saw that the Democrats were more for the working man. So that’s why he was a Democrat and that’s what his papers stood for,” Quist said.
Some historians who have studied this newspaper believed Taylor was an atheist, and his writings stirred up controversy. He wrote in the first edition of the paper, “There is no logical reason why a colored man should be a republican, any more than he should be a Mormon, a methodist, or a Baptist.”Quist said, “Because he upset quite a number of his advertisers here in Salt Lake for his kind of outrageous views, at least that’s what his advertisers thought."
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