The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-23
HUN-AMER|CAN
 ALLIANCE GOT
 BREWERS CASH Additional Evidence From Private Files Read Into Record by Investigat-
 ing Committee

Washington, November ?.
 Additional records from the private files of the United
 States Brewers association
 showing methods adopted in the organizations efforts to
 combat the prohibition move-
 ment, were read into the rec
 ord of the Senate Investigating
 committee today by Maj. E.
 Lowry Humes, who Is in charge
 of the inquiry.
 | These records delt with the organi-
 zation and financing of the National As- sociation of Commerce and Labor, dis
 bursements to the German American
 alliance, the employment of special
 writers for beer propaganda and a suggestion to Hugh A. Fox, secretary or the association. that the brewers offer a prize for the best essay on the solution of the saloon problem" with the cooperation of newspapers as a medium of publicity. The Hearst pa- pers were suggested in this connection.
 Other records included suggestion that efforts be made to induce Jeter c. Pritchard. former federal judge of Asheville, N. c, and a prohibition ad- vocate, to write q letter to a brewer soliciting funds with view to dispred- h tyra letters purporting to show that Mss l. T. Martin was employed to attend meeting of the Anti-Saloon league in Atlantic City N. J., in 1914, to report the proceedings to the brewers and that in August of the same year she attended meeting of a Catholic prohibition so- ciety in Niagara Falls. was elected sec retary and subsequently, destroyed the records of the session. She was on the associations pay roll at $50 month, according to the records.
 ONLY ONE WITNESS
 The committee heard only one witness today, but before adjournment to De- cember it decided to take up at that time d general inquiry into German propaganda Alexander Konta of New York, who has been mentioned in con- nection with the German propaganda movement, will be called to testify probably immediately after the inquiry is resumed.
 The name of the person suggesting the prize essay contest on the saloon was not given. He pointed out the ad- vantage of working through the news papers in bringing the prize to the att tention of the public instead of the sociation taking it up direct If the Hearst newspapers, for example" the suggestion read, could be gotten to CO., operate with the brewers for months before the awards were made, they would carry editorials and articles to stimulate the interest. People would send in man. uscrlpts and the winning article would be widely read. On the other hand. if the United States Brewers association offered a prize through the convention. the Associated Press would carry a short announcement of the fact"
 BELIEVED IN PUBLICITY
 The brewers idea of the value of the publicity was set forth In another in- stance, when suggestion was made for the use of the American Press asso- ciations plate matter.
 The Associated Press, the letter said, reaches the public through press dis patches. but the American Press asso- ciation reaches the readers of the smaller newspapers. In this connec- tion the rlter oH the suggestion called attention to the alleged use of the letter medium in the Mckinley campaign of 1896. as follows:
 "One specific instance that l heard Of on the best of authority was that of Mark Hanna's usins this means to make Mckinley the republican nominee long before McKinley's nomination in 1896. A certain writer was employed by Hanna to write democratic editorials for the democratic newspapers in the service of the American Press associa- ton. In these editorials McKinley's stand on the tariff and other questions was severely attacked. The same writer at the same time, was employed to write republican editorials for the re- publican newspapers in the service of the American Press association, warrf- y defending McKinleys views and per- 
 A contract between the United States Brewers association, through it's presi- x lent. Edward A. Schmidt of Philadel- 'hia, and Percy Andreae of Chicago, O. organize and supervise the opera ion of the National Association of Commerce and Labor, a subsidiary of he Brewers, by which the brewers were to pay Andreae $40.000 year for i've years was placed in the record. Other records showed that the Asso- iation of Commerce and Labor was ac- ively engaged in combating prohibit ion and that it received s300,000 from he brewers association and $10O,00O rom the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers association
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