GERMAN VOTERS IN AMERICA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 74, 30 March 1915, Page 4

GERMAN VOTERS IN AMERICA.

The chairman of the American Navy League has been telling the National Liberal Club that the Austrian and German element in America being as strong as it is, it is wonderful that there should have been so little fuss in America over Britain’s policy regarding neutral shipping. The number of Austrian and Gorman voters in America is not known, but it is very large. In Greater New York there are supposed to be a million people. German in birth or in sympathies. A recent estimate put the number of Germans (including Austrians) in the whole country at 20,000,000. Lately the more violent of the German element have threatened to organise the German vote for electoral purposes, and there is no doubt that unless this action forced the nonGermans into combination, the\ Ger--mans could exercise tremendous influence. Their threat is for the present directed against the Democrats, because the Democrats are in office. It is pleasant to know, however, that the Republicans,' so far from wishing to take advantage of the situation by discovering reasons for an entente with the German faction, are patriotically denouncing that faction as an-ti-American. An example, we may observe, says a writer in Christchurch Press, which ought to be noted by Opposition parties in other lands.