The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1875-12-31
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THE LEADING AMERICAN sEwsPApER.- .

..THE LEADING AMERICAN SEWSPAPER.-
Tie year 1876 promises 10 be crowded
with more important and interesting oc-
currences than any since the close of the
war. We shall celebrate the one hun
dredth anniversary of our national birth
with the most remarkable display of our
arts and industries, and the greatest
cOncOurse of visitors ever seen on the
continent We shall elect a new Presi-
dent under circumstances which threat
en- 10 make the political campaign pc
cUliarly exciting. The House of Repre-
sentatives for the first time since the
close of Mr.. Buchanan's term is under
the control of the Democratic party. and
il proposes 10 lay bare the secrets of the
administration row drawing to a close
ifS course during the next six months
will define the policy by which the Dem
Ocratic party hopes 70 rule the country;
while the action of the Republicans is
likely to determine whether the orsaui
z,tion which saved the Union and freed
the slave is to fall to pieces or enter up
on a new career of usefulness. In the
practical work of government there are
great abuses to be swept away, and
many promises to be put to the test In
the settlement of the national finances
the year may mark the crisis of our af-
fairs. In religion it promises TO mark
great revival, and there are many signs
that the relations of the Church TO the
STATE. and particularly tO the State
schools, viii provoke sharp discussion,
and enter largely into politics. In trade,
commerce and productive industry there
are hopes that it will witness the long
deferred revival
In such stirring and crow ed period,
Tie Tribune confidently appeals to its
past record and its present performance,
as constituting its claim for the contin-
ued regard of all CID readers, and the
accession of many new ones. No intel
iigent citizen can afford during such
year as 1876 TO dispense with an indie
pendent newspaper, upon which he can
rely for an impartial record of events,
undiStorted by partisan necessities or
personal hates or ambitions.
The Tribune will maintain with the
old fervor the old Republican principles
of which it was the champion all through
the American conflict, and it will rejoice
whenever those principles are victorious
under the old banners. But it can
never be the servant of caucuses or con-
ventiOnS; it must approve what it finds
good in the acts and professions of
either party, and apologize for the
wrougdoings of neither. In giving the
news it endeavors to set forth the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth; in politics its great object is to
elect honest men, whom the country
= tn Ina rH
mouey. Administrative reform, such
economy i'll public affairs as the hard
times compel from private citizens, and,
as consequence, lower taxes. Thus it
found itself last Fall, rallying the forces
for the splendid hard money triumphs
won by the Republicans and their allies
in Ohio and Pennsylvania, and as earn
estly striving to hold up the hands of an
Adrninisi ration in New York, which was
busy fighting the Canal Ring, stopping
leaks in the treasury, and lowering taxes.
In each case it found the people sustain
ing its positions, and it hopes TO be
so clearly right in its political course
through all the storms of 1876 as to win
equal success, and command yet greater
approval.
One result of this policy of struggling
for the triumph of honest men and
sound principles, without being too
much controlled by mere party names,
has been that both parties find them
selves forced to abandon some of the
worst practices of the old caucus system,
to put forward their best men, and
TO practice some of the reforms they
preach 1t may fairly be claimed that
conscientious and independent voters
have thus within two or three years grad
ually forced both parties up to II some
what higher place, and we hope that the
Centennial year will.witness still greater
improvement.
The Tribune will continue to labor for
this end with the methods which have
already commended it to popular favor.
1t will endeavor to combine the utmost
candor with judicial fairness; will keep
is columns free from personal wrangling;
will waste no time i'll replying to the in
cesSaut attacks its success prOvokes from
envious rivals, and as heretofore will re-.
serve all its space for its readers inter
ests.
From those who believe such a journal
"A desirable visitor in their families, The
TJiLnEe soIicits n continuance of the IA
vor il has so-conspicuOusly enjoyed in the
past. During the years 1874 and 1915
the position assigned it long ago by for
eiyn critics, as ''the leading American
has come to be generally
and its circulation has been
greater than ut any previous period of its
history. Il has won this position by the
closest ,gatchfulness and the most lavish
expenditure 10 produce the freshest i'll
triligrnce. the most complete reports, the
most interesting letters and essays, and !
tine abIest work in every department.
lis staff includes the most accomplished |
men in the profession, and among its |
Dutside contributors it numbers many of |
the most eminent men in the country.