Republican League Club
Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, 5 March 1892, page 6
NEWPORT
The Colored Republican League Club have elected the following
officers; President Wash Rippleton: Vice President, C W H Johnson; Secretary,
Robert Littleton; Second Vice President Harry Letcher; Treasure W Moore;
Executive Committee F W Davis; James Murray, William Lumpkins, T and D Herskins.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Saturday, 4 August 1894, page 6
NEWPORT
The Colored Voter Indignates
The colored Republicans met last night in the lecture room of the
colored church on Columbia street. Several speeches were made by the
leading colored citizens of the city and each and every one of them condemned in
the strongest terms the action of the Bellevue Convention in ignoring their
representatives and refusing to allow them a voice in the proceedings.
Nick Neblett, the janitor of the German National Bank and the acknowledged leader of the colored Republicans in Campbell County, and who was a delegate to the Bellevue convention, denounced the ticket nominated at that convention and offered a resolution providing that each and every colored person of the city refrain from voting on the day of election and stay away from the polls.
Nearly every colored voter in the city was present and the large room proved inadequate to hold them. It is their intention to hold meetings every week.
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Cincinnati Post, Wednesday, 12 July 1899, page 7
The contest in Campbell County seems to be materializing. Ex-City Jailor John Bitzer and Wash Rippleton, leader of the colored Republicans of Newport arrived at 11 am. They prepared contest papers to the committee on credentials on behalf of the Stone men.
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Cincinnati Enquirer, Wednesday, 17 October 1900, page 8
Mr. Wash Rippleton will have charge of the colored Republican meeting to be held this evening at Odd Fellow's Hall. W E White, of Louisville, will be the principal speaker.