The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-10
CINCINNATI
WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings. in addition to the
constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teresting political situation OF the National
House OF Representatives at war with the
senate and the Executive Administration,
and the great quadrennial contest for the
Presidency. with the vast power and patron
age which it controls. political party
which, after long control of the Government,
lett it with the Union broken up, and which,
as a party organization, stood aloof during the
gigantic struggle of restoration and gave the
aid and comfort OF its sympathy and votes to
the secession confederacy, now hopes to cover
up its long record of unfaithfulness to the
country, ana its responsibility for all the conse
quent caIamities and financial burdens. by
q faiIacious promise of paper money infia-
tIon which means the unsettiement of values.
the continual depreciation of the currency, the
destruction OF general confidence, and which
can have no outcome save in prostration and
repudiation.
In this contest tine GAZETTE will maintain
the principles and course laid down in its pre-
vious annual circulars, and adhered to in its
editorial columns. The Democratic party
brought all the caIamities and burdens upon
the country. 1t has given no evidence of ca
pacity 10 reform its own character, or to lay
out a policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance. which it
attempts to set up as the sole issue, the
party is at war with ITSELF Its restoration is
to the control OF the Nation al government
would he a national calamity. Its present
control of the House OF Representatives Is a
partial anarchy AMI p1raly sis in the govern
ment. While perfe ct purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet il has the never
dyinggIOry of having saved the Republic from
1ealt ~
faults of its public lemen with merciless hand;
it is the only party that has a character hich
entities IL to be intrusted with the govern
meut, or that ca n lay out a government policy,
and it will prese mt to he people a Presidential
candidate who will deserve the confidence of
thecOuntry ou a platform Of reform and pro-
gTess.
The general C haracter of the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life. aud, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. II maintains Repuo-
lican principles, such as IL believes best ior the
general welfare, and it holds party organiza-
tion as simply an agency TO carry them into
effect in the administration of government.
The GAZETTE asks no fav ors from those In
power and is independent in the course IL
takes, and is as free to condemn abuses inside
the Republican party as in the opposition.
This fearless course has earned for IL the recog-
Journal of the central pant of the nation.
ON the question of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line of policy sei forth in its
previous annual circulars While ii holds
that the eveutful divorce. of the government
from the banking business and therestora ion
of the currency to convertibili;y with coin,
are to be kept steadily in view, IL also holds
that the situation growing out of the prostra-
tiou of the public credi: by the war of secss-
sion, which left an enormous volume OF ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the measure of general values and
con Iacts some W .-Oss reiOI IN Inusi be gradual
and by cautious and stable Measures Expert
ence has prove d that. with stoppage OF further
issues, there Is a steady tendency Of the cur
rency to appreciation The first step Of re-
FORM therefore. is to stop the further increase
OF the vossme of irredeemable paper money.
When we shall have settled that and thus
have given full course to;hs natural Improve
ment CT the currency from that, it will be
time enough To deliberate measures t. close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American newspaper, the GA
ZETfE has no superior On the continent. Asa
commercial paper. u has long been regarded
as the standard, and II will IN aintain TIL. no.
sition. its value a. agricultural paper is
practical farmerS, who make il .lieir medium
for exchanging views and inteIi- senee- IL is
not unmindful OF the literary wants OF the
family. IL contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city and
the character Of iGs contents pIeeIudes aDv
comparison Of IL with the trashy cheap p.Ders
that are continually springing up. u is print
ell from stereotype plates, " the new per.
fecting Press, whir.; E.sakes its Typographical
executiO hetssr IN an ever.
Cboice stories. poetry. and miscellany, inter-
sstIng 70 young and old. have aIway. been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
aud SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and Increased
prominence will be gwen 20 them daring the
coming year,
The GAZE TIE, in mechanical execution in
the quantity and quality Of its reading matter.
and in all the questions OF tue public welfare.
will continue its progress abreast with tile
times.
Terms cf Weekly Gazette Sos 1875
INCLUDING