Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-11-26 | Page 6 | Brewers Active in Politics as Sons of Herman

BREWERS ACTIVE IN POLITICS AS SONS OF III i WASHINGTON, Nov 26 Docu- ; ments showing propaganda methods of the German American National alii- 1 ance, some times co-operating with the United States Brewers' association, associa-tion, were today placed in the records , of the senate judiciary committee's investigation in-vestigation of brewers' activities, One document dealt with the al- , liance's efforts to combat "anti'Ger- i manism" In Texas, referred to in a report from the propaganda and or- ' ganization committee of the alliance at the convention in San Francisco In 1915. ; "Our next look we directed to Texas ; where fanatics had declared war upon , Germanism to the hilt," said the re- .port written by Joseph Keller, of In- ' dianapolis, Ind. "Wo found there a glorious thorough -going, self-conscious Germanism, both in the second, third and also thesfourth generations, which was for the most part centralized Ju '; a mighty order of the Sons of Hermann. Her-mann. Most comforting was the re- . suit of the election In which the Ger7-man Ger7-man vote in Texas made itself felt more strongly than ever before and it ' was undoubtedly the factor which sav- ; ed the state from a puritanical yoke." The work of tho alliance in HH- : nois, Ohio and Iowa was described in the same spirit.