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Show HUN SOCIETY'S" WORjUSBAflED Documents Show Propaganda Propa-ganda Methods of German-American Alliance. "WASHINGTON", Nov. 26. Documents showing propaganda methods of the Gcr- j man-American National alliance, some- j times co -operating with the United : States Hrewer.s' association, were today ! placed in tho records of the senate ju- dieia.ry committee's inquiry of the hrew- ers' activities, one or" the documents i dealt with the alliance's efforts to com- j bat anti-Germanism in Texas, referred; to in a report of the propaganda and , org-ani'itti n of the alliance in San Fran- ; cisco In 1!)15. I "Our next look we directed to Texas, I where fanatics had declared war upon j Germanism to the hilt." said the report I written by Joseph Keller of Indianapolis, j Ind. "We found there a glorious, thorough-going, self-conscious Germanism, I both In the second, third and also the fourth generations, which was for the most part centralized in a mighty order of the Sons of Hermann. Most comforting comfort-ing was the result of the election, in which the German vote in Texas made itself it-self felt more strongly than ever before and it was undoubtedly the factor which saved the state, from a Puritanical yoke." The work of the alliance in Ohio, Illinois Illi-nois and Iowa was described in the same report. |