The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1918-11-11
TAR REPORTED
n UNITED SOCIETIES
etxn.Ooru Rou1c @-HcfstrrS'' Said
N - Nave Sortly Offended
Germans.
TALK OF "ByscDERnUND"
ISIS, Poles and Bctcrrians. Crit
IL e1rd for Raising So Called German
q ucstlcu; Ccn1c Rack With a Pcri-
n llcnt rctorl.

lF The United Societies Of Chicago,
II M01npoSei OF eia local societies. made
n ~ Of foreign born and foreign speak
fA1 peoples. is reported in the throes
civil war. Perhaps it would be
B more accurate to say that uautiny has
y 4foken out in this camp of foreigners.
Who organized to perpetuate the ideals
4 Nzad Gust enls 81 their native lands in
An1arica and 10 protect the llquor in
Attrests
II is said that 81; OF the local or
MNnixations are. German. The present
n x1Npus is preGpitated ny these Ger
man Representatives. II is incident to
q the present political campaign being
Na&ed in the county with the county
md certain municipal Offices al stake
( This paper goes 10 press before the
\ recruits OF the election arc known. but
khether the cand dates opposed by
ire United societies win or lose, one
thing II certain. the un-American
methods CT the United societies will
nave been thoroughly aired
The whole internal strife Is said TO
~ caused by the Injection OF the So
called German question" and those
nn0sn hers OF the United societies
Whose native lands are trying TO
ahro~ of the yoke OF autocracv and
0 Hailitarisrn and other enemies OF pro
Hress sponsored by the kaiser, are be-
I ginning TO understand perhaps little
better the German passion to control.
IN other words. as far as can be gath
cred from newspaper accounts of the
H6fap. the German end OF the United
ANcieties has threatened to withdraw
becAuse fhey charge he societies with
discriminating against German candi-
DATES. II Is said that they have organ
d0ed what IS known as the Bruderbund
1nd now government officials are
showing an interest IN this new Ger
4 man Brudarhund. whose purpose II il
aid iss"to protect Germans and fur
ther the political interests Of men OF
German descent Federal agents are
reported eager to learn the facts con-
cSrning speech made by Joseph Self
ben. OF Oak Park. before some fifty
mem bers OF the United Societies few
days ago. William Kramer a former
president Of the United societies, is
said to have remarked in a speech
that Il was time that the Germans
who composed 10 per cent of the
United societies asserted themselves
POLITICALLY in that orEanizat ton. He
corn planned that the societies Endorsed
Bohemians. Poles. Siovaks and other
foreign IS peaking peoples, but had not
given Endorsement to German candi-
dates. The threat was openly made
that the Bruderbunders would with
draw from the societies and mako
their own political Endorsements.
n That this German Instruction is
meeting with vigorous opposition Is
Indicated from the following express
sions credited to members of the
United Societies. one said 1T is
ridiculous to listen 10 men who try
to place candidates on trial for state
naents they have neade against the
9rHr of nations with which we are at
war"
81. 9nf candidate whom the German
r1esnbers OF the societies evidently or
posed, was criticized for stirring up
the German question" To which an.
ether mem Der of the societies replied
Great God We have got sons and
fsrofhers over there in France and
Belgium being killed and mutilated
over the German question Why
shouldn't ii he stirred up at home ?"
s Indeed. why not every good Amer
lcss7 citizen will ask, II may he that
The melting POI" is beginning TO melt
Times do move certainly when the
.ss.a IT. si- apdherat que s.e
tiDned. even In such n pro-liquor or
EAnizafion as The United societies
Heretofore they have welded infu-
ence without much opposition in Cook
county.