The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-10-20

number was as complete a success az
the first had been failure, The press
discovered It's existence, and received IL
With pretty general Indignation. The
Republican papers generally asserted
that 1t was the work OF o knot OF South.
ern ex'Rebels. The Democratic Jour-
nals charged II upon Grant and the
republicans. Tho mob was eXhOrtR0,
IN some cases, to sack tho Office Of The
a..mpcrlaLat, and to hang It's editors to
Lns nearest lamppOsts. Meanwhile
oIuetS poured In from all pnrts OF the
the demand. ' ''' '"
only III The South did any portion OF
Tue press welcome tho new. Gamer.
Several Southern papers embraced lhe
new political doctrine, and RIyOcatqd
II with tue zeal Of new convariS 10 a
new faith. The I. q. /. o, soon gave il
official sanction, and It aided largely
In lis circulation, Before many lnOntha
had passed, the conductors found that
they had large circle OF readers, and
at one time 1t seemed 10 them that they
had raised storm they were powerless
to control.
Scores OF letters, expressing the warm.
est sympathy with The LnpcridItSt and
its cause, were daily received at tho
olllce, and Il selection from them was
each week published In the paper. New
facts, showing the extent TO which
mOnarchlcAl Views had spread
throughout the country continually
appeared. It was discovered that q
PRO. Monarchy Association had exist.
ed-principally In the Southern and
WpafpPn Afnfna-in 1pEu
ed In Government offices, from post
masters 10 persons high In Federal
bureaus at Washington, wrote Civ.
Ing In their adhesion TO the 'Em-
pire OF the Future'-evidently iuspi-
red by a desire 10 retain Office under
the new regime. Prominent public
men, we are assured expressed their
belief that an empire would be estab.
llshed In America, In five years. as
one eminent Massachusetts soldier and
statesman asserted; lin four years. as
another more notorious political eener-
al did not hesitate to say. The Impcrt-
dttSt tloated trlumphantly with the
tide. At one tImO 1t printed an edition
OF ten thousand copies. 1t soon paid
OIL its debts, and, with q constantly in
creasIng circulation, began to yield re-
turns to Its pr0prletors. It reached Its
twentieth number, and then vanished
as suddenly AZ II had appeared.
The dlscontinuRnCe OF the paper was
due 10 several causes. After the issue
OF the eighth number there was n
change In It's editorial staff, and the pa.
per passed entirely under the control OF
the L. y. !. o. Soon after, that society
was reOrgRnized, and In the Judgment
Of those ut liz head, 1t was thought best
10 suppress all aIlusion 10 It IN tho col
umns OF Tic ImpcriGLiSt. Al the same |
time, differences OF opinion M to the
proper policy 10 be pursued by the VA.
per arose between It's chief editor and |
the I. Q. l. o., and the society finally |
peromptorily ordered It's immediate
At various times, offers OF money
were made to the conductors OF the pa.
per; but these offers were rarely accept.
ed. The existence OF The IDIpcriGiSL
was thought 10 be thorn in the side OF
the Republicans, and the Democratic
politicians were, therefore, anxious 10
keep /: alive. As they knew nothing
Of the real condition Of the pAper, ex.
cept that 1t was a new venture, they
not irrationally supposed that 1t needed
money, and made freq uent aud gener-
GUS oilers OF pecuniary assistance. 10
a certain extent these offers were ac-
cepted, as a grim joke, to be, at the
proper moment, turned to account In |
showing the people how extremely hon.
est the politicians were In their advo.
oacy OF democratic institutional More
than one Democratic State committee |
paid money into the treasury OF The
1RIpertuLtSt, and more than one proml. |
nent politician OF the same party made |
free gifts TO paper which needed no
such assistance; while, upon the rulnor
that the paper was about to DO STONED, |
the 'Tammany Ring offered 10 nay |
weekly subsidy Of 800 to insure lis |
Tho latter offer WAS not |
accepted, since 1t had been determined |
to suspend publication.
These oilers Of money! VIC are told,
were accepted as free gifts, The I1npc'
TidLtSt never undertaking for II moment |
10 change Its course. They wero made
exclusively by members Of the Demo-
cratic party From first to last no Re. |
publican organization and no Rapubll. |
can politician WAS ever directly or indi. |
reCtly concerned in the establishment
or conduct OF The IRlpcriaLiSt, The |
charges sometimes made that President
GRAM, Secretary Borie, Senator Sprague, |
or the Grand Army olLhs Republic had
some connection with The IulpcrialiSt
were wholly fictitious. They were
never made by the paper itself, but
were sheer inventions on the part OIL
Democratic journals. In one instance
the accredited owner oil u leading DEM |
ocraltc newspaper, which charged Mr., |
Borte with having advanced funds TO |
support The InIpCTidLiSt, had himself
given money for that very purpose,
The ImpCriGLiSt denied none of these |
reports, as was part Of It's settled policy;
but 1t never originated or authorized |
them,
Tho Impcridlist has now vanished,
and l do not know whether any one |
contemplates It's revival. 1t has, hoW> |
ever, disclosed the existence Of a secret |
lmperialist organization. Tho II, G, /,
o., II we may believe the professions of
Its leaders, does not CONTEMPLATE an
armed rebellion, but proposes 10 trans
form the Republic into an Empire by
peaceful revolution. How IL proposes
TO accomplish this extraordinary result
1t does not deign to disclose; but II will
prove somewhat difficult task, We
are informed, however, that 1T was, al |
one timo, u matter OF discussion wheth.
or an lmperlalist ticket should not be |
placed In the field at a recent election
In Washington City, or the actual
strength OF the organization 1t Is Diff |
cult TO speak.
Such Is the story Of The ImperidlisI
and the I. @. l. GA story committed
to me under circumstances that accred. |
It the correctness Of Its facts, and the |
sincerity OF It's opinions.