Robert Fargher launched the *Mona's Herald* newspaper in 1833 and led a thirty-year campaign for a democratically elected House of Keys, publishing what the self-elected House did in its secretive proceedings. The Keys responded by bringing libel action, and Fargher was imprisoned. His argument that an unelected body should not be given financial authority was eventually used by Governor Henry Loch to force the Keys to accept popular election in 1866.