Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-11-04

ture they not irrationally supposed that ii
needed money, and made frequent and generous
offers of pecuniary assistance. To certain
extent these offers were accepted, a grim
joke, to be, at the proper moment, turned TO ac-
count in showing the people how extremely
honest the politicians were in their advocacy OF
Democratic institutions More tadn one Demo
crdtic STATE Committee paid money into The treas
ury of The Imperlst, and more than one prom
ile politician Of The same party made free CUTS TO
q paper aOhich needed no such assistance while,
upon the rumor that the paper was about to be
stopped, the 'Tdnindny Ring offered to pay a
tceekly subsidy OF hundred dollars to insure its
continuance. The latter offer was not accepted
since it had then been determined to suspend
publication.
THESE offers of money we are told were
accepted as free gifts, The Imperialist never un-
dertaking for a moment to change its course.
They lUere made exclusively by members OF the
Democratic party. From first to last Republican
organization and no Republican politician eUer
dTsctty or indirectly concerned in the establishment
or conduct of The Inlperidiist The charges some
times made that President Grant, Secretary
Borie, Senator Sprague, or the Grand Army OF
the Republic had some connection with The
Imperialist were wholly fictitious. They were
never made by the paper ITSELF but were sheer
inventions on the part OF Democratic journals.
In one instance, the accredited owner of a lead.
ing Democratic newspaper, which charged Mr..
Borie with having advanced funds to support
The Imperialist had himself given money for
that very purpose. The 1mperialist denied none
OF these reports, as was part OF its settled pol
icy; but 1t never originated or authorized them"
This confirms the assertion made by
the Commercial repeatedly during the
existence of The ImpeIialist, and at the
time every Democratic newspaper in the
country was bowling that the Republi-
cans were in conspiracy to overturn
the Republic and set up an empire, with
Grant as Dictator, that the paper had
Democratic parentage, drew its most
fOrcible arguments in favor of an empire
from Democratic sources, and was MAIN
tained by Democratic money. We do
not wish to be understood as charging
the Democracy with desire to subvert
republican Institutions in America
They would as vigorously oppose and
put down any such movement as the
Republicans themselves; but we do
mean to say that they gave support to
the organ of Imperialism. with the dis
honest purpose of fastening upon the
Republicans, if downright lying could
accomplish it, the responsibility of the
existence of such newspaper in the
United States seeking to create the i'm
preston that the Republicans, as po-
litical organization, were aiming not
only at centralized, but personal govern
ment on this continent. And to gain
their ends, they did not scruple to con-
tribute the means to keep alive the or
gan of Imperial sentiment and con-
tribute to the diffusion Ofideas at enmi-
ty with all democratic and representa-
tive government. They have ignumin-
iously failed in this scheme, and now we
have one of The Imperialist coterie
turning States evidence to add to their
discomfiture.-[Cin. Com.