The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-24

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WEEKLY GAZETTE
For 1876.

The coming year brings. in addition 10 be
constant current of events, the peculiarly in
teresting political situation of the Nat onsl
House of Representatives at war with the
Senate and the Executive administrator,
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 il with the Union broken up, and which,
party organization, stood aloof during the
gigantic struggle of restoration and gave the
aid and comfort of its sympathy and votes to
the secession confedeIacy, now hopes to cover
up its long record of unfaithfulness to the
country, ana its responsibility for all the conse
qUent calamities and financial burdens, by
a iallaciOus promise of paper money infia-
tion, which means the unsettlement of values.
the continual depreciation of the currency, the
destruction OF general confidence, and which
can have no outcome save in prostration and
reputation.
In this contest the GAZETTE will maintain
the principles and course laid down in its rre-
vious annual circulars, and adhered to in its
editorial columns. The Democratic party
brought ell the calamities and burdens upon
the country. 1t has given no evidence of ca
pacity 10 reform its own character, or TO lay
out policy of government. Even on the
questions of currency and finance, which IL
attempts to set mp the sole issue, the
party is at war with itself. Its restoration is
to the control OF the Nation al government
would be a national calamity. Its present
control of the House of Representatives is
partial anarchy and paralysis in the govern
ment. While perfect purity is not claimed for
the Republican party, yet it has the never
dyingglory OF having saved the Republic from
Democratic disunion: it has dealt with the
faults of its public men with a merci'ess hand
it is the only party that has character which
entities il to be intrusted with the govern
ment, or that can lay out gGyerrInen policy.
and it will present to he people Presidential
candidate who will deserve the confidence of
hecountry, on a platform OF reform and pro-
gress.
The general character OF the GAZETTE is es-
tablished by its life, aud, therefore. needs no
promises for the future. II maintains Repub
lican principles, such as il believes best for the
general welfare and il holds party organiza-
ton as simply an agency to carry them into
effect in the administration of gDvernm ent.
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 oppostien.
This fearless course has earned for it the reccg-
nized position of the leading Republican
journal of the central part of the nstion.
On the question of currency, the GAZETTE
maintains the line of policy set forth in its
previous annual circulars. While il holds
that the eventful divorce OF the government
from the banking business, and the restora, ion
of the currency TO convertibility with coin,
are 10 be kept steadily in view, it also holds
that the situation growing out of the prostra-
tion of the public credit by the war of seces-
sion, which left an enormous volume of ire
deemable and deprecated paper money, which
has become the mt asure o. general values and
con racts, isone -ose refo IN must be gradual
and by cautious and stable measures Expert
ence has proved 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 volume of irredeemable paper money.
When we shall have settled that, and thus
have given full course to the natural improve
ment CT the currency from that, it will be
tins enough to deliberate measures to close
the remaining gap between paper and coin.
As a complete American newspaper, the GA
ZErTE has no superior on the continent. As a
commercial paper, it has long been eSarded
as the standard, and it will m lintain this po-
sition. It's value as an agrica JuTai p1per is
seen in its vo.umnioUS correspondence rom
practical farmer, who make 1t heir medium
for exchanging views and intelligence. 1t is
not unmindful OF the literary wants of the
family. 1t contains more reading matter than
any other pa per published in this city, and
the character of its contents precludes any
comparison of il with the trashy cheap papers
that are continually springing up. 1t is print
ed from stereotype plates, by the new Per
fectIng P, ess, !" which makes its typographical
executio1 better tn an ever.
Choice stories, poetry, and miscellany, inter-
esting to young and old, have always been
prominent features pertaining 20 the WEEKLY
and SEMI WEEKLY GAZETTE, and increased
prominence will be given them during the
coming year.
The GAZE TIE, in mechanical execution, in
the quantity and quality of its reading matter,
and in all the questions of the public welfare,
Will continue its progress abreast with the
times.
Terms of Weekly Gazette for 1875.