The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-09-20

! dclivcr TO me Il trrasurcTS check M tho
| federal trust company. payable To henTcr
which trcaslircrs checks l IN turn de-
! liv"r"d TO Mr.. Brisbane personally.
4 letter from BriShane to FcigenSpan
! defining the terms of loan is next given.
! This previously has been published hy
! Mr.. Brisbane. II s'ts forth that num-
/ her Of brewers. including Fngcnspnn'
! were ready TO loan Brisbane a50D.0oS
| for the purchase and establishment OF
a newspaper and that AT the end OF five
years vas to be repaid as brisbane de-
trrmined az tho business of the paper
! warranted: that no interest Was to be
| charged. but that the loan was to he
| returned il the paper was sold. Rr'
Brisbane has stated that hn declined the
loan without interest.
A letter written to DeTnbcrE by Konta.
March ST.. 1918. goes into the subject "1
the purchase and publication OF n daily
newspaper in this country in tho inter-
Tets Of Germany and the German govern
nrnt." II proceeds "a discuss various
New York newspapers from tho point
Of their success proceeding from that
to make deductions on the likelihood Of
their sale.
The Herald. Telegram. Tribune and
! World, konta put out OF the reckoning
, at the outset because they were part OF
great fortunes. and the Times. which
| he reckoned as very prosperous and nos
FOR sale. That left in the morning field.
he wrote, the Sun. Press, Telegraph and
| Commercial. The sun. konta wrote
| DernberE. had the drawback Of not then
being member Of tn" Associated Press
and hr did not know if il could he
/ bought. Tho FrcsS. (i:ow discontinu"d).
ne reported. had recently changed own
! crship. "and the old owner was so de-
! lighted 10 get it off his hands that he
| made his managing editor Il present OF
! 81 10000" He expressed doubts II the
, new owners would wish 10 sell.
; The Telegraph. Konta reported. could
! 10 bought at any moment but would
have To be remodeied from beginning
! 10 end" The Commercial. Konta de-
scribed. rs n mere skeleton" and then
turning to the evening newspaper field,
discussed the Post, the Mail and tho
| Globe
The Post. Konta spoke OF In the most
flattcring terms, but made no comment
on the possibilities OF its purchase. The
price quoted for the Evening Mail BY
its editor is $1,000. 600" he reported.
tThe sale Of the Mail already has re.
suited in indictments charging failure
To make proper returns to tho alien
property custodian.)
Whether the Globe could be bought
Konta wrote to DcrnhurE. was "A mat
ter for cautious inquiry" Al thty/point
konia took UP the relation nf the pro
hihiti0n agitation to the question in
hand and wrote:
the minds OF tho brewers and distiller.
Of this country. Ii is not question Of
temperance. which they advocate. but Of
the actual prohibition ny Law Of the sale
Of beers. wines and liquors. paper
that would not hr hostile Ia the per-
Sonnl liberty nf the citizens TO drink in
mod1rTiiun what he pleased could count
upon tn" powerful support Of III. brew
ers and tho distillcrS to command Him
table capital. and what Is more means
Of giving the paper III question rircu-
latlon largo enough 10 attract adver-
tiScrS.
Add 10 this 4 discreet appeal 10 ev-
cry German society in the country for
support by it's members and VIC could
easily count upon n national daily cir
culation Of 5nn.0hG copies This. To be
sure. would be q circulation among Ger
what is wanted is native American road
crs. but If this German circulation Is
built up discrcctly. AS I suggest. the man
in the street will only be impressed by
members. large. diversified cirCula-
ton would impress thn native American
and lead him to take the paper And
meanwhile. a deficit would hr changed
into n profit to be used for further prop
uganda"
At no time in the Konta letters are
Mr.. Brisbane or the Times mentioned
at NIL. hut Mr.. Palmer. it was
said. included the correspondence to
prove his charge that the brewing
interests were furthcrinE German
propaganda, and that the German
alliance WAS really n German whiskry
alliance"
Mr.. Falmcr's revelations Of these doc
uments shot stir through Congress
and official Washington, which probably
has not been approached sine" the dec
laration rf war. Since his Harrisburg
speech Saturday a storm has RACED
around tho ownership Of Mt. Bris banc.
Times. IT cam" To Il climax yesterday
with Mr.. Brishanes published announce
ment that h" bought the paper with
money borrowed from brewers. and was
followed today by the allen property
cuStodians revelations soon after the
pasStg" Of tho Scnatcs resolution.
The Senate judiciary committee win
meet Monday 10 consider the affair.
WASHINGTON. Sept. 1?.--D""u-
m"nts /" show that Il brewers and
tho United States brewers ass"riairnn
contributed SAn1.5h0 to fund used ny
{. w. F"ir"nSpan Of Newark. y. J..
in making Il loan to Arthur TRISTAN" for
tn" purchase Of the Washington Times
were furnished lat" today T." tn" Srn-
ate judiciary committee hy 4. Mitchell
Palmer. alien property custodian.
Tho money advanced to Mr.. brisbane.
amounting To $375nnn was advanced
by Mr.. F"igcnSpan through the Grow
ing Circulation Corporation which "on-
Germ is understood either to h" owned
ar controlled by Mr.. brisbane
other documents sent To tn" commit
tee by Mr.. Palmer included corrrsp"nd-
cncr h"!wn"n German prnnaEandists IN
this country and certain brewery IN
forests rclaiir" to. tn" rurChaS" nf
newspaper t" b" anIagnnistic Ia beer
nor TO Germany.
letter signed Alexander k"ntn. ~
Exrhang" l'lac". New YORK; addressed
Ia Captain Hans 'rausrhrrk III which
thu writer told Of having discussed with
DR.. bernard n"rnhurg regarding 'hr
purchaS" nf q newspaper on complain
ing that DcrnhurE had done 'lit;l" or
u"thinr tn influence III" american p""-
pie" vas among tn" documents