Joseph served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868 and 1872 , and in early 1872 served as a Mobile postal clerk and as a clerk in the Mobile custom house . In 1870 he began his journalism career founding the Mobile '' Republican '' . He would come to found and edit four newspapers in Mobile and Montgomery from 1870 until 1884 In 1872 he decided to oppose the reelection of Benjamin S. Turner to the United States House of Representatives . This split the Republican vote , and allowed the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party fusion candidate Frederick G. Bromberg to win the election . During the campaign , Turner accused Joseph of having been a " secret agent of the rebel government " during the Civil War
Republican National Convention in 1868
1868 Republican National Convention
Philip Joseph (politician)