 The journal was renamed "Vigilante" in 1918 to reflect his campaign for a Vigilance Committee.In 1918, Captain Harold Sherwood Spencer became assistant editor and the journal was increasingly left in Spencer's hands.John Henry Clarke and Henry Hamilton Beamish began to write for "Vigilante", and promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, claiming "the British war effort was being undermined by the "hidden hand" of German sympathisers and German Jews operating in Britain".