The Washington herald., 1918-11-24
SECRET WAR
BY BREWERS
ON SUFFRAGE
Evidence Before Senate
Shows Uhderhand Opposi-
ton to Votes for Women.
GARBLE NEWS REPORTS
Publicity Agent Spread
False Story of Prohibi-
tionists Convention.

That the brewers actively opposed
woman's suffrage but as far as pos
sible preferred to keep secret the fact
of their cooperation with the anti
suffrage forces, was established in the
documents submitted to the Senate
Judiciary Subcommittee by Mai.
Humes, in charge of the investiga-
tion of the Brisbane-brewers compact
and the illegal meddling of the brew
ers in politics.
In a letter to the Fred Miller Brew
ing Company, of Milwaukee, Hugh r.
Fox, secretary of the United States
Brewers Association. declared that IT
would be unadvisable for the connec-
ton between the brewers and the
anti-suffrage forces to become public.
I'VE are, however, in a position TO
establish channels of communication
with the leaders of the anti-sunrage
movement In any State where suffrage
is an ISSUE" Mr.. Fox wrote. Il am
under the impression that an anti
suffrage association has been formed
In Illinois and that it is retail liquor
dealers affair. I consider 1t most
dangerous for the liquor dealers to
become identified in the fight. as II
will be used against US"
John McDermott, manager OF the
organization bureau of the Brewers
Association, in a report of the work
in the various States, places the blame
for the brewers defeat in Oregon and
Washington on the woman's vote.
The failure of the vets to elect
their candidates in the Ohio elections
of 1914 is laid to the opposition OF the
women of the state. At meeting OF
the interstate conference committee in
June of that year. Austin J. Doyle
reports:
Under the law that allows women
to vote in the municipalities, the
spring elections in 1914 in the towns,
cities and villages resulted \ disas-
trously, Elections were held in 2Sl
places, and no less than 154. wet be-
fore, were voted dry through the
women's vote. There was no material
change in the vote of the men"
Fought Suffrage Secretly.
The aid of the National Brewers
Association in fighting the suffrage
amendment in Iowa was sought by
Henry Thuenen, secretary of the Iowa
State Association.
'"The first battle" Mr.. Thuenen de-
cIares, that will be fought in the
State will be the woman's suffrage
amendment Our defeat in this would
make a fight on constitutional pro-
hibition very difficult. We are of the
opinion that the amendment can be
defeated, although we believe that the
liquor interests should not be known
as the contending forces against the
amendment"
An address of Mrs. Florence D
RRichards of Columbus, Ohio, ir
which she makes the statement
when women walk o the polls
goodbye, Mr.. Booze" was quoted il
report of the Anti-Saloon League
Convention at Atlantic City in 1s1;
by Miss I. T. Martin. special 'fn-
vestigator' of the brewers associa-
ton.
Miss Martin, the absconding sec,
retary of the First Conference oi
Catholic Prohibitionists, in Niagara
Falls in 1914. reports the success OF
her efforts to upset the convention
and garble the accounts given tc
the press.
THE mayor of Westerville, Ohio
attending the convention. called up
on the mayor of Atlantic City anC
during the interview the latter of.
fetal said, with no saloons we
havn't much need for a police force
The Atlantic City Union printed thi,
story but / think I succeeded in
keeping it off the wire. The state,
ment sent out only quoted the At.
lantic City mayor as saying that
arrests for drunkenness had in,
creased since the Anti Saloon host!
had reached the resort"
Miss Martin explains in her re
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