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Show GERMAN AMERICANS MAKE A DEMAND. A' delegation is on the way to Mar-; ion with a petition urging that Presl I dent-elect Harding name at least one German American for his cabinet. Who. three years ago, could have t predicted a Change so complete as I this? In 1917 Americans were signing I pledges never to patronise Germans and were looking askann- at every r.n-m r.n-m of pure Teutonic Mood, and today I those who were proscribed are claim inc their place in the cabinet. Among the men who are selected to ' enter the cabinet is George Sylvester VIereck. who edited "Th Fatherland ! during the war. The Chicago Tribune is authority for the statement that, when Viereck meets the president-elect at Marion, he 1 will present figures to show that Harding was elected by the solid Ger-1 man American vote and that, (here i fore, the new president is under obli gation to this mighty force in Ameri- i can politics. The National League of German- j Americans, meeting at Chicago on j Tuesday, adopted resolutions demand ing a place in the cabinet. Much interest will be manifested in this latest pilgrimage to Marl n, as on the decision which President-elect Harding makes will in part depend I 'the encouragement to h. .Mended to those groups of citizens within the United States who cling to their lor eign allegiance |