Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-03-01 | Page 9 | German Alliance is in Bad Repute

(GERMAN ALLIANCE IS 1 BAD REPUTE WASHINGTON, March 1. Further testimony against the National German-American alliance, charged with being an unpatriotic organization, was given the senate judiciary investigating investigat-ing sub-committee yesterday by Henry Hen-ry C. Campbell, assistant editor of the Milwaukee Journal, who said ho had made an investigation of the workings of the alliance and into the activities and private opinions of some of its officers. of-ficers. The witness spoke particularly of Dr. C. J. Hexamer of Philadelphia, a former president of the alliance, whose name has been mentioned in previous testimony. "Dr. Hexamer has publicly said a great deal about preserving liberty in the United States and of maintaining the right of individuals," Mr. Campbell said, "yet In 'the ofilco of the United States district attorney in Erie, Pa., on March 23, 1916, In a friendly discussion discus-sion of judicial and government mat ters, Dr. Hexamer stated: " 'This form of governmont-ls a failure, fail-ure, and that only correct form of government gov-ernment is a constitutional monarchy. . "He also Bald that the legal system of Germany was bettor than that of this country and hold up the laws of Germany as a model. He added that there was much more liberty under the laws of Germany than under the laws of this country." Mr. Campbell gave the committee the names of five persons who, he said, heard Dr. Hexamer's statement. One of them has been summoned to testify. tes-tify. Telling the committee he believed the German-American alliance to bo "the greatest Internal menace wo have In this country today," the witness wit-ness referred 10 messages sent to members of congress by the Ohio branch just before the United States entered the war and cited other Incidents In-cidents to Indicate the character of work carried on by tho organization. Since the United States went to war. he said, tho alliance has been passive and he did not believe tho rank and file of the membership was aware of the real purpose of its existence. In Wisconsin, Mr. Campbell declared, declar-ed, the alliance controlled the school board which adopted a rule assuming that all school children were desirous of entering the German classes unless they specifically asked to be excused. He said berore the political national conventions in 1906. the Wisconsin alliance al-liance sent printed lists of candidates for delegates to tho conventions and in an explanatory notes said stars appearing ap-pearing before tho names of some indicated in-dicated that those candidates "we are in accord with the ideas of Deutsch-land Deutsch-land and if elected will act accordingly."