New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-16
GERMANS NOT TO BE MEsLED.
EFFECTIVE WORK BEING DONE BY
THEIR LEAGUE IN COMBATING
BRYAN LEADERS

The German-American Mckinley and Roosevelt
league whose headquarters are in Fourteenth-st
Just east Of Fourth-ave. IS spending $500 q week
lot organizers and canvassers to push its campaign
"orh among the Commandments of the United
STATES About once week it publishes and circu-
idIeS TWO or three hundred thousand copies of a
paper called The United States Gazette " nrinted
IN German at a cost Of several thousand dollars
an issue All this work is conducted independently
OF the National or State committees and in a man
her not TO interfere with the regular Republican
organization. Campaign speakers and organizers
IN the employ Of the league are at work in In
diana. Illinois. Wisconsin, Michigan and West Viz
GINA arthur Won Briesen, president the league,
mas engaged in the work heart and soul. largely
on account Of his friendship for Governor Roose-
Welt The good results of the hard work being
done by Mr.. Won Briesen and his friends are al
teaoy apparent in the reports being received. The
democratic campaign managers who announced
mat they had the German-American for
bryan forgot that Germans like the organizers Of
the Mckinley and Roosevelt League have the
courage or their convictions and that they de-
termined to demonstrate to the country that there
can be no stampede of German-American citizens
IN favor of candidate who advocates National
dlshonor When Mr.. Won Briesen was seen yester-
day at his office. No. 229 Broadway and asked for
a statement concerning the work of the league he
said:
About the first thing that occurs to me in con-
nection with our campaign is the realization of the
many reasons b wG[N at Is BENG d9Pe Eog
than had anticipated The primary object of
vote for Mckinney Six weeks ago. at ' the begin
managers boasted that they hsd t6e German vofe
IN thelr pockets, and that the German Americans
mLtarism If on general principles it is error
TO pick out certain class among whom to prop
lLte necessity for TO do in order Offset the
working with unusual energy at organizing the
Germans in illinois. Indiana. West Virginia, New
extremely gratifying AS we expected we found
ous to prove that they are IN favor Of stable and
Teasonable government as represented by McI[in-
they can be stampeded by any cheap claptrap Of
OF course. a good many people have taken their
cue from Carl Schurz. and started out some weeks
eyes are beginning to open. however and the more
tbe I r over me situation the more clearly DO
one d9 9 now begin to realize that the great
bryan IN order that National honor shall not be
In this city we have organized every one of the
thirty-fve Assembly districts. Our principal diff
jealousy of the Republican distrct leaders. who
nae9 l90ked upon our Efforts as something that
the republican organization. The quicker our Re-
take the bee Far from 'G 3errn Gr IN f tbe eas east
with the regular Republican organization, have
have worked with three PRINCIPAL points In view
First to get in line the dsgruntIed Democrats who
voted against Bryan four years ago. and who think
make sure that they vote for good government as
represented by the Republican ticket Second
are paying particular attention the so-caIed
INDEPENDENTS whose votes. after all, elect. These
citizens reserve their Judgment until election day
and then vote as they think best. We deter
mined that they shall the Republican side OF
the argument in the most favorable light. Third.
We are after the dyed-n-the-woOl Republicans who
are taking It for granted that the Republicans Will
elect their candidates anyway. We are bound that
the Republicans shall not to sleep. What
want them TO do is to work and to get well
posted on campaign matters that they shall be
able 10 90 out and argue the situation with their
Democratic brethren The situation requires hard
work. The Germans likely Just as they
did four years agoh They have too much common
sense TO be fooled by any such speCiOus cry i'm
perialism. They look beyond all such nonsense and
see an attack by Bryan and his friends the bust
ness prosperity and honor OF the Nation. and
this consideration is what is going influence
them at the polls in November.
The leagues paper has used with telling effect
the speech delivered by Carl Schurz in 1896 when
he said that the country would be dishonored and
disgraced If the l6 TO proposition should be
brought to the front by the election Of Bryan and
another regular feature of the publication IS
a reproduction OF the editorials Of THE Stats
Zeitung' in 1896. There is also reproduced the
letter written by Governor Roosevelt l. Viereck
in refutation Of the charge that he (RoOsevelO IL
antl-Cerman.